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This paper presents the first acts of the Community environmental protection law, adopted before the introduction of the Single European Act to protect air and water. It also includes acts concerning other areas of Community policies that influence the environment, as well as international conventions. It discusses the drafting process for the acts, their scope, duration, as well as the institutions and measures introduced in them. Acts relating to the protection of air and water are arranged chronologically. Final considerations concern the lack of a direct treaty basis for introducing new acts to protect air and water, the solutions implemented due to this situation, the detailed scope of the directives, the characteristics of the introduced acts and their duration. They also list the rules of environmental protection laws included in these acts. The author also suggests the scope of further studies which would allow for formulating general conclusions and determining the development trends in the environmental law in the period in question.