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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 50 No 1 (2004), 227–233
České právo životního prostředí v evropském kontextu
[Czech Environmental Law in the European Context]
Milan Damohorský
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.44
published online: 14. 02. 2025
abstract
This article deals with law aspects of the entering of the Czech Republic into the European Union from the environmental protection point of view. In this connection it characterizes the main stages of development of Czech Environmental Law. It points at the main problems of these stages and also at the fact that in the beginning of year 2004 the majority of directives and other legal acts of European Communities in the section of environmental protection have been harmonized. It means that author does not see the main domain of actual problems in the approximation of Czech Law but in the deficit of its enforcement in everyday practice. The second part of the article occupies with individual parts of legal regulation and with main Czech acts that transpose the provisions of European Community Law. These especially are: air protection, water protection, nature and the landscape protection and influence of sectional means of environment protection (environmental impact assessment – EIA, integrated prevention and pollution control – IPPC or an access to information and participation of public in decision-making processes). Final parts are devoted to de lege ferenda considerations and also to warnings about some adverse trends in the Parliament of the Czech Republic, where there have been the efforts to revise and even to moderate acts that impose more firmly regime than in the European Union. These considerations are dangerous especially in the section of nature and landscape protection, forests and soil protection, where the legal regulation of European Community partly or totally lacks. The environment of the Czech Republic is not at as fair level as it is in countries of EU. In general author values the approach of the Czech Republic to the EU and harmonization of its law from the point of view of environment protection as the positive step in right way to sustainable development.
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