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Published: 2026-02-26
2026

Legal aspects of the marine protected areas in the Republic of Poland in the light of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: “Bringing nature back into our lives”

Jan Buławski Logo ORCID
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https://doi.org/10.31261/PPGOS.2026.01.05

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The article addresses the legal aspects of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Republic of Poland in light of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: “Bringing nature back into our lives”. MPAs are being created in many countries and are intended, among other things, to enable the provision of basic ecosystem services and the protection of marine biodiversity and cultural resources. The aim of this study is to present the functioning of marine protected areas in Poland established within the framework of Polish area-based forms of nature protection, the Natura 2000 system of protected areas and the HELCOM MPAs system. This is achieved by answering two questions: whether the exercise of competences in MPAs by national public administration bodies may lead to conflicts of competence between them, and whether the creation of a coherent trans-European Natura 2000 network requires cooperation between EU member states and countries in the ­region concerned. In order to answer these questions, the provisions regulating the legal status of MPAs and selected administrative court rulings were analysed, and reference was also made to the views of the doctrine in the field of administrative law, environmental law and maritime law. The research has confirmed that overlapping competences of national administrative bodies responsible for specific MPAs may result in jurisdictional disputes and that in order to create a coherent trans-European Natura 2000 network, cooperation between all EU member states is necessary, particularly between countries in a specific region,
e.g. the Baltic Sea area.

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marine protected areas , MPAs , marine environmental protection

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Buławski, J. (2026). Legal aspects of the marine protected areas in the Republic of Poland in the light of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: “Bringing nature back into our lives”. Prawne Problemy Górnictwa I Ochrony Środowiska, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.31261/PPGOS.2026.01.05

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2026
Published: 2021-06-25

eISSN: 2451-3431
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PPGOS
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