The article describes the legal rules of the management of end‑of life vehicles. To begin with, I present the legal regulations concerning end of life vehicles and the general principles of wrecks management. Hereinafter, I characterize the obligations of operators participating in the recycling of end of life vehicles: producers, distributors and other operators introducing vehicles as well as collectors, dismantlers and shredders.

Art. 3 determines the situations in which the Geological and Mining Law does not apply; Art. 4 applies to mining (with the exception of the law in question) of certain minerals by individuals to meet their own needs. Art. 5 defines therapeutic (curative) waters, thermal waters and brines, and determines that they are minerals within the meaning of the GMA.

This article discusses legal regulations regarding the decision on environmental conditions, with special emphasis on projects in the field of geology and mining. It covers the matter of investment decisions which are essential for geology and mining. There have been discussed the issues of projects requiring the decision on environmental conditions and the procedure for obtaining such a decision. The basic terms such as geology and mining, the decision on environmental conditions, the concession, selected investment decisions, geological works, the mining area as well as the mine operating plan have also been explained in this article. Moreover, there has been discussed the matter of public authorities competent to issue decisions on environmental conditions. This article includes examples of practical problems derived from jurisdiction. It also indicates changes in the regulations regarding the decision on environmental conditions, taking into account activities in the field of geology and mining.

The subject of this paper is a short presentation of opinions of the Czech authors expressed in the monograph “Introduction to the land law”. By the land law the authors of this monograph mean an interdisciplinary area of law which deals with the sources, methods, principles and tools of private and public law concerning legal relations which subject is land. The land law reveals strict and direct relation with the environmental law. After each of 17 chapters of this monograph resemblances and differences with the Polish law are presented.

The increasing interest in the writings of the forgotten Polish emigrant Andrzej Bobkowski (1913—1961) caused that it is worth to present his publication devoted to an extremely fast building of a cable‑car railway from Zakopane—Kuźnice to Kasprowy Wierch. The article entitled “The overhead tunnel and not [fictional] Kellerman tunnel” between Europa and America under Atlantic Ocean was written in 1958 for the emigration Radio “Free Europe” in Munich on the 25th anniversary of the opening of this railway and published in Poland in 1987. The construction of this cable‑car railway (built in 1935—1936) was mentioned several times in the letters of Andrzej Bobkowski to his uncle Alexander Bobkowski (1886—1966), who was the vice‑Minister of Transport. Aleksander Bobkowski had the idea of this cable‑car railway and personally supervised its construction. The construction of this railway was considered “a scandal” and divided the scientists and the public into two opposite camps: one for preserving nature in Tatra Mountains and the other for the construction of the cable‑car railway. The fact of building this railway was usually presented only from the point of view of preservation of nature who criticized the enterprise. Therefore it seems worth to present the arguments from the article of A. Bobkowski from 1958 for construction of the cable‑car railway. Andrzej Bobkowski was able to foresee the future tendency for mass‑tourism and skiing and its value for the development of Zakopane.

Legal regime of access to information on the environment in Russian Federation law is significantly different from the one accepted by the member states of the European Union. Its main characteristic is the lack of a single legal act regulating all aspects of this subject. The aim of the article is to present solutions that were adopted in this area in the provisions concerning ecological expertise, which is one of the most important institutions in russian environmental law.