The article contains a description of the relationship between the consent of the owner of uninhabited real estate and the public law obligations resulting from the submitted declaration concerning the amount of the fee for municipal waste management. The author negatively assesses the legal solutions that give owners of uninhabited real estates the freedom to choose whether they want to be included in the municipal waste management system. Given the massive scale of performance of the service of waste collection and management, the tightness of the system is important, which is not guaranteed by the regulations adopted by the legislator.
W artykule przedstawiono polskie oraz powiązane z nimi unijne uwarunkowania prawne w zakresie termicznego przekształcania odpadów (w szczególności odpadów komunalnych i odpadów pochodzenia komunalnego) jako źródła energii. Postawiono hipotezę, że na obecnym etapie systemowego rozwoju gospodarki odpadami komunalnymi w polskich uwarunkowaniach prawnych termiczne przekształcanie odpadów jest niezwykle istotnym elementem, który nie tylko pozwala osiągać wymierne korzyści środowiskowe, lecz także stanowi źródło energii elektrycznej. Nie można jednak spalania odpadów traktować jako podstawowego elementu gospodarki odpadami o obiegu zamkniętym. Spalarnie odpadów są i powinny być traktowane jako element domknięcia sytemu odpadowego z uwzględnieniem odzysku energii w systemie kogeneracji, ale też ograniczeń wynikających z taksonomii. Niewątpliwą zaletą tego typu instalacji jest możliwość produkcji energii cieplnej i wpływ na środowisko bardziej korzystny niż w przypadku spalania paliw kopalnych.
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The article presents Polish and related EU legal basis for thermal waste conversion (in particular municipal waste and waste of municipal origin) as an energy source. It was hypothesized that at the current stage of systemic development of municipal waste management in Polish legal conditions, thermal waste conversion is an extremely important element which not only allows for achieving quantifiable environmental benefits, but also constitutes a source of energy. However, waste incineration cannot be treated as a fundamental element of closed-loop waste management. Waste incineration plants are and should be treated as an element of complementing the waste system, taking into account energy recovery in the cogeneration system, but also the limitations arising from taxonomy. The unquestionable advantage of this type of installation is the possibility of producing thermal energy and a more beneficial impact on the environment than the combustion of fossil fuels.
The judgment concerns the vital issue of covering only real property where residents live and parts of real property where residents do not live, the so-called mixed-use properties. This issue is of utmost importance both from the point of view of municipalities that organize municipal systems and residents who are direct beneficiaries of these systems.
In practice, in the implementation of municipal waste collection obligations by a commune, a situation may arise in which waste is collected from property owners under standard regulations functioning in the commune, but the “production” of waste is greater (non-standard), which means that the waste does not fit into a container or trash enclosure. A question then arises as to the manner of handling such waste and the possibility of applying the mechanism provided for in Article 6s of the Maintaining Tidiness and Order in Communes Act, according to which, if the commune does not fulfill the obligation to collect municipal waste from property owners, the property owner is obliged to transfer municipal waste, at the expense of the commune, to an entity collecting municipal waste from property owners, entered in the register of regulated activities. The subject of the article is the analysis of the legal and factual solutions regarding possible ways of proceeding in the aforementioned situation.
The authors indicate that, with the reasonable treatment of ecological safety as a priority of the activities of local government administration bodies, the legislator, by expanding control competences, omitted broader regulation of the process sphere of control. In their opinion, it would be justified to at least make an appropriate reference in the scope of inspections carried out by the Environmental Protection Inspection bodies to some procedural norms contained in the provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure and to supplement the regulations on inspection proceedings. In the case of situations that directly threaten the natural environment, this would not pose a threat to the speed of action of control authorities, but would allow for the ordering of the relationship between the controller and the controlled entity and provide instruments for protecting the rights and interests, in particular of entrepreneurs.
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