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Contents
PART 1          THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL TREATIES ..... 5
1.1. Environmental impact assessment ............................................... 5
1.2. Public participation ............................................................. 7
1.3. Liability for environmental damage .............................................. 8
1.4. Nature protection ............................................................... 8
1.5. Air protection .................................................................. 15
1.6. Inland waters protection ........................................................ 19
1.7. Protection of cultural heritage .................................................. 22
1.8. Nuclear energy.................................................................. 23
1.9. Hazardous substances ........................................................... 28
1.10. International movements of wastes ............................................. 33
PART 2         CZECH ENVIRONMENTAL LAW - GENERAL PART ........ 35
2.1. Participation of the public in the environmental protection ...................... 35
2.1.1. Definition of the public .......................................................... 35
2.1.2. The right to gather .............................................................. 36
2.1.3. The right to associate ........................................................... 36
2.1.4. The right to participate in administration of public matters including the right
to vote .......................................................................... 36
2.1.5. The right to petition ............................................................. 37
2.1.6. The right to environmental information .......................................... 37
2.1.7. The right to complain ........................................................... 39
2.1.8. The right to participate in procedures that do not have the character
of an administrative procedure................................................... 39
2.1.9. The right to participate in the administrative proceedings ........................ 40
2.1.10. Participation in the civil proceedings at court ................................... 41
2.1.11. Participation in the penal proceedings .......................................... 41
2.1.12. Administrative agreements ..................................................... 42
2.1.13. Participation in the state institutions ........................................... 42
2.2. Environmental impact assessment ............................................... 42
2.2.1. Stages of the EIA procedure related to projects .................................. 43
2.2.2. Basic principles of the EIA procedure related to projects ......................... 44
2.2.3. Competent authorities ........................................................... 47
2.3. Integrated pollution prevention and control ...................................... 47
2.3.1. Stages of the IPPC procedure.................................................... 48
2.3.2. Basic principles of IPPC ......................................................... 50
2.3.3. Competent authorities ........................................................... 52
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Environmental Law
PART 3 CZECH ENVIRONMENTAL LAW - SPECIAL PART .......... 53
3.1. Legal regulation of the air protection ............................................ 53
3.1.1. Sources of the legal regulation ................................................... 53
3.1.2. Classification of sources of air pollution .......................................... 54
3.1-3. Standard level of air protection .................................................. 54
3.1.4. Specific air protection ........................................................... 57
3.1.5. Ozone layer protection ........................................................... 57
3.1.6. Climate system protection ....................................................... 59
3.1.7. Competent authorities ........................................................... 59
3.2. Legal regulation of the inland water protection .................................. 59
3.2.1. Sources of the legal regulation ................................................... 59
3.2.2. Legal nature of waters ........................................................... 60
3.2.3. Regulatory tools of water protection ............................................. 60
3.2.4. Competent Authorities .......................................................... 65
3.3. Legal regulation of the land protection .......................................... 65
3.3.1. Protection of agricultural land ................................................... 66
3.3.2. Protection of the quantity of land used for agricultural purposes .................. 66
3.3.3. Protection of the quality of agricultural land ..................................... 68
3.3.4. Competent authorities ........................................................... 69
3.3.5. Protection of forests ............................................................. 70
3.3.6. Protection of forest land and forests ............................................. 70
3.3.7. Competent authorities ........................................................... 72
3.4. Nature protection ............................................................... 72
3.4.1. General protection of nature ..................................................... 73
3.4.2. Special protection of nature...................................................... 75
3.4.3. Special protection of species ..................................................... 75
3.4.4. Special territorial protection ..................................................... 76
3.4.5. Tools of legal regulation ......................................................... 77
3.4.6. Regulation of trade in endangered species of wild flauna and flora ................ 78
3.4.7. Competent, authorities ........................................................... 79
3.5. Animal rights ................................................................... 79
3.5.1. Regulatory tools ................................................................. 80
3.5.2. Competent authorities ........................................................... 80
3.6. Legal regulation of waste disposal ............................................... 81
3.6.1. Definitions of the waste - hazardous waste - municipal waste ..................... 81
3.6.2. Regulatory tools ................................................................. 82
3.6.3. Competent authorities ........................................................... 86
Table of treaties ...................................................................... 87
Table of statutes ...................................................................... 91
Bibliography .......................................................................... 93