The article deals with selected aspects of liability for environmental damage in Polish legislation and the possibility of insuring them under the policies operating on the Polish market. The author notes that the main legal act regulating liability for environmental damage is the Act of April 13, 2007 on the prevention and repair of environmental damage. The main aim of the publication is to present the possibility of covering the selected damages with civil liability insurance for the conducted activity or specialist environmental insurance, based on market examples.

The considerations focus on the principles of determining the manner of carrying out reclamation in the so-called geological work project. We are talking about a document that is subject to approval before commencing geological works. Therefore, the aim of the text is to present the plan of actions required by the legislator to be undertaken after the end of the activity leading to the devastation or degradation of the land as a result of the activity regulated by the provisions of the Geological and Mining Law.

The article deals with the subject of the municipal waste management fee, including the structural elements of the fee and the rules of its collection. The author also qualifies the fee as a public levy and assesses whether it is closer to a fee in the constitutional sense, or a tax. The article also refers to the issue of tax consequences of the fee in the tax on goods and services.

Article 26 sets out detailed requirements of the license applications for mining of minerals from deposits. These include, in particular, information about the mineral deposit, way and size of the mining, t he r ights to use the land a nd the right to the geological information. A n appendix to such application is the “deposit development plan”, determining the way of rational use of the deposit and environmental protection. Similar requirements apply to applications for the underground non-reservoir storage of substances and underground waste depositing (Art. 27).

The significant amendment of the Slovak constitution deals with the protection of the land which it newly characterises as a non-renewable natural resource and provides additional legal protection of it. The article analyses the importance of this amendment from multiple perspectives with emphasis on legislative changes it has brought. The main topics of the article are the need for more effective legislation in the area of land protection and also the long-standing need to carry out land consolidations in the Slovak Republic.

The increased and additional fees are administrative sanctions for violations of the provisions of the Act of 9 June 2011 Geological and Mining Law, especially in part concerning the concession requirements. The article discusses the functions which these sanctions play. In that range it analyses the subject and severity of the fees, trying to distinguish their scopes. It leads to the conclusion that the fees concentrate mainly on their repressive and fiscal functions. The second part of the article is devoted to standards of the fees in the light of the provisions Section IVa of the Code of Administrative Procedure, entitled “Administrative pecuniary penalties”. The impact of these provisions on the fees’ legal status is insufficient and does not guarantee the satisfactory protection of rights of entities.

The hypothetical situation where a waste possessor, obliged to waste disposal from a place not intended for its storage, is in bankruptcy - is the main aim of this paper. Particularly, the work is dedicated to determine the entity obliged to fulfil this obligation also in case of initiating appropriate proceedings.

The aim of the paper is to briefly present the development of Czech mining law, its basic sources and related literature. The author of the article recalls the common roots of Czech and Polish mining law, which date back to the Middle Ages and are currently defined by EU law.
Therefore, he mentions the relevant EU legal acts. The article examines the reasons for which the Czech Republic has the mining regulations adopted in 1988: the Mining Protection and Utilization Act (Mining Act) of April 19, 1988 (adopted by the Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) and two acts of on April 21, 1988, on mining, explosives and the state mining administration, and on geological works (both laws were adopted by the Czech National Council).