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Macrophytes in the assessment of river ecological condition on the example of Pszczynka River (Silesian Upland)

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Sierka E., Tomczak A.

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies

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2013

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vol. 1

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issue 3

14-20

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The Water Framework Directive introduced an ecological approach to the assessment and classification of waters. The part of the assessmentare macrophyte - based methods used in the evaluation of the ecologicalcondition of rivers in respect of biodiversity. The Macrophyte Method for River Assessment has been used in Poland since 2007 and provides us with an information about ecological state of the rivers. Presented analyses were aimed to describe macrophyte development in the sandylowland type of river in the Silesian Upland. The assessment was made for lowland Pszczynka River (45.8 km total length, total catchment area 368.3 km2), which is a left-bank tributary of Vistula River. At the selected 10 research sections of the river (100 m each) the composition of macrophytes and abiotic conditions of the river were described. The paper presents the results of preliminary assessment of ecological condition of Pszczynka River on the background sources of substances discharged to the riveralongits course. Macrophyte Index for Rivers (MIR) was calculated based on the results of the research - river bed surface coverage by the particular plant species. The MIR limit values were used to determine the class of water quality in the examined river. Overall, the ecological status of Pszczynka River was rated as moderate and its water classified as Class III of water quality.

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Legal solutions of lake monitoring systems in Poland in compliance with the Water Framework Directive

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Zębek E. M.

Review of European and Comparative Law

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2022

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vol. 49

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issue 2

173-201

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The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC is considered a very modern strategy of water management in the EU. The purpose is to establish a framework for the protection of inland surface waters by preventing further deterioration and protecting the condition of aquatic ecosystems, as well as increasing the protection and improvement of the condition of the aquatic environment by limiting emissions and losses of priority substances. It was considered that changes in the water law in Poland during the process of implementing the guidelines of the Water Framework Directive may have contributed to widening and strengthening the monitoring system of lakes and changes in their quality, especially their ecological state. This article aims to determine the changes in legal regulations in the field of water quality/ecologically state of lakes in Poland as a result of the implementation of the WFD. The EC reports indicate that some requirements are too rigorous and complicated for Member States to implement. Water monitoring was significantly expanded and modernised which lead to improvement of lake water quality in Poland. The five-grade ecological status of lake waters and standardised biological indicators were introduced. It was highlighted that the improvement of the WFD implementation process allowed for more effective water management and the development of effective strategies for the protection of lakes in Poland and other EU countries.

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Ochrona wód zlewni Bugu – poprawa czystości rzeki międzynarodowym wyzwaniem

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Lis E.

Kontrola Państwowa

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2016

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vol. 61

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issue 4 (369)

65-74

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Ten years ago, the audit was conducted entitled “Protection of the River Bug Catchment Area in the Years 2003-2006”. Apart from NIK, the audit was conducted by the Supreme Audit Institutions of Ukraine and Belarus. In 2015, the follow-up coordinated audit was carried out entitled “Protection of the River Bug Catchment Area against Pollution”. The audit was conducted on the initiative of the President of the Chamber of Accounts of Ukraine. The audit examined the implementation of the audit conclusions of 2006 aimed at achieving good quality of the waters of the River Bug catchment area, which means the compliance with the Water Framework Directive.

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THE TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT – COMPARING POLICY TRANSLATIONS OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN THE INTERNATIONAL BASIN DISTRICTS OF THE ODER RIVER AND THE TORNE RIVER

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Ibragimow A., Albrecht E., Albrecht M.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2019

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vol. 38

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issue 1

29-39

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The European Union’s Water Framework Directive introduced a new approach to the system of water management in Europe by nominating the river basin district as the basic unit in water management. While its transboundary character aims to better manage natural resources, its design and implementation carries several challenges due to its weak integration of various bordering effects related to administrative boundaries that strongly affect the directives’ implementation. Based on a comparative document based case study of two river basin districts – the International Oder River Basin District (IORBD) and the International Torne River Basin District (ITRBD) – the paper scrutinizes the effects on the implementation processes of the directive and aims to draw attention to identify the differences that derive from various socio-spatial settings during the first cycles of water management plans from 2009 to 2015. By thematically comparing biophysical characteristics, cross-border cooperation, cultural and administrative borderingprocesses the study displays a mismatch between the directives aims for transboundary governance and the actual governance processes which are hampered by a variety of conflicting bordering processes.

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Monitoring rzek i kontrola oczyszczalni ścieków - zadania Inspekcji Ochrony Środowiska

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Trzaskowski P.

Kontrola Państwowa

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2018

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vol. 63

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issue 3 (380)

61-74

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The Supreme Audit Office has assessed the compliance and effectiveness of the activities of the Environmental Protection Inspectorate (Polish: Inspekcja Ochrony Środowiska, IOŚ) related to the quality of river waters and the works conducted in order to improve their ecological and chemical condition. The audit examined, among others, the correctness of programming and monitoring of the river waters quality; the regularity of their condition assessment; the system of financing of the tasks related to rivers monitoring; the activities related to the auditing of the entities that manage municipal and industrial sewage treatment plants and the follow-up measures taken; the management of the IOŚ’s activity by the Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection, as well as the regularity of the supervision by the Minister of Environment of the implementation of the Inspectorate’s tasks related to the monitoring of rivers and control of sewage treatment plants.

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Irrigation of farm land under the EU Water Framework Directive

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Theuvsen L., Battermann H. W.

Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego

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2011

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vol. 11(26)

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issue 3

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With the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Union has established a legal framework for the protection of all aquatic ecological systems, including groundwater. This directive may have advantages for the water regime in ecologically sensitive areas but may also bring some economic disadvantages for farmers. The economic implications of the WFD for irrigated agriculture with regard to various scenarios and the implementation of alternative water policy measures are analysed. The results show that demand for irrigation water, farmers’ reactions with regard to operational and strategic decisions and income effects strongly depend on the water policy measures implemented.

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Ustawa Prawo wodne z 2017 roku w świetle zasad techniki prawodawczej

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Rotko J.

Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny

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2022

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vol. 84

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issue 4

73-86

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The article assesses the technical and legal correctness of the legislation of the Act of 20 July 2017 – Water Law, using the logical-linguistic method. The principles of legislative technique included in the form of an annexe to the Ordinance of the Prime Minister of 20 June 2002 on the ‘Principles of Legislative Technique’ are adopted as a point of reference. The analysis of the ways of expressing standards plays a key role both at the stage of preparing and adopting a new law, as well as during the period of its validity, as it allows various shortcomings of the adopted regulations to be revealed. The fact that the Water Law of 2017 has been in force for five years does not, therefore, make it unreasonable to undertake a comprehensive assessment from the point of view of compliance with the rules of legislative technique. In a broader perspective, such an analysis also provides research material for the formulation of theoretical and legal assumptions of the law-making process and their possible verification. The conducted research shows that in the Water Law Act of 2017 there are a few violations of the standards constituting the rules of legislative technique. Most of them do not cause any serious problems in applying the provisions, but there are also some – often overlooked in a cursory reading of the law – which deserve criticism. At issue here are violations of the consistency of the systematics, inconsistencies in the group of formulated prohibitions, which are additionally excessively rigorous in relation to the requirements of European law, dispersing issues between the main act and amending acts, and generally the phenomenon of the overproduction of legal entities, which introduces unnecessary normative noise.

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W artykule podjęto ocenę technicznoprawnej poprawności legislacyjnej ustawy z 20 lipca 2017 r. – Prawo wodne (t.jedn.: Dz. U. 2021, poz. 2233 ze zm.), wykorzystując metodę logiczno-językową. Za punkt odniesienia przyjęto zasady techniki prawodawczej ujęte w formie załącznika do rozporządzenia Prezesa Rady Ministrów z 20 czerwca 2002 r. w sprawie „Zasad techniki prawodawczej” (t.jedn.: Dz. U. 2016, poz. 283). Analiza sposobów wysławiania norm odgrywa kluczową rolę zarówno na etapie przygotowywania i uchwalania nowego prawa, jak i w okresie jego obowiązywania, gdyż pozwala ujawnić różne mankamenty przyjętych regulacji. Fakt, że ustawa Prawo wodne z 2017 r. obowiązuje od pięciu lat, nie pozbawia zatem zasadności podejmowanie jej całościowej oceny z punktu widzenia zgodności z zasadami techniki legislacyjnej. Potrzebę taką uzasadnia zarówno obszerność tego aktu, jak i nasycenie go nowymi rozwiązaniami ustrojowymi i materialnoprawnymi. W szerszej perspektywie analiza taka dostarcza również materiał badawczy do formułowania założeń teoretycznoprawnych procesu prawotwórstwa oraz ich ewentualnej weryfikacji. Przeprowadzone badania dowodzą, że w ustawie Prawo wodne z 2017 r. występuje stosunkowo niewiele naruszeń standardów będących treścią zasad techniki legislacyjnej. W większości nie wywołują one poważniejszych problemów w stosowaniu przepisów, ale są i takie, często niedostrzegane przy pobieżnej lekturze ustawy, które zasługują na krytykę. Chodzi o naruszanie spójności systematyki, niekonsekwencje w grupie formułowanych zakazów, które dodatkowo cechuje nadmierny rygoryzm w stosunku do wymagań prawa europejskiego, rozpraszanie zagadnień między ustawę główną i ustawy nowelizujące oraz generalnie o zjawisko nadprodukcji bytów prawnych, wprowadzające niepotrzebny szum normatywny.

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