Recent Municipal Waste Management Legislation in Poland
By amending the Act on Maintaining Cleanliness and Order in Municipalities¹ (Municipal Waste Act in short), it became mandatory in Poland from 1 January 2012 for municipal waste to be surrendered to public waste management authorities. The amending Act² containing these provisions was passed by Polish legislators on 1 July 2011, after many years of debate.³ The most important amendments and the consequences resulting from them are described in this article.
The background of the legislative procedure was the transformation of Community requirements, such as the Waste Framework Directive4 – for which the deadline for Transposition ended on 12 December 2010 – or the Landfill Directive5. Despite passing the amending Act, Poland was unable to avoid infringement proceedings being initiated by the European Commission due to the late transposition of the Framework Directive. On 27 March 2012, the European Commission requested the European Court of Justice to impose a daily fine of EUR 67,314 on Poland for missing the deadline for completing the transposition of the Waste Framework Directive.6
1 Municipal Waste Act of 13 September 1996, Dziennik Ustaw (Journal of Laws, Dz. U. for short) No. 132, Item 622, last amended on 16 September 2011 (Dz. U. No. 230, Item 1373).
2 Law amending the Municipal Waste Act of 1 July 2011, No. 152, Item 152.
3 Regarding the procedure, refer to Schäfer/Kapsa, Neue rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Siedlungsabfallentsorgung in Polen, MuA 2011, p. 535 ff.
4 Directive 2008/98/EC of 19 November 2008 on waste (Waste Framework Directive or WFD for short), OJ L 312, p. 3.
5 Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste (Landfill Directive for short), OJ L 194, p. 39.
6 EUWID Recycling und Entsorgung, No. 18.2012, p. 40; www.recyclingportal.de/artikel/28544.shtml.
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| Autor: | Dr. jur. Anja Schäfer  Dr. Karolina Kapsa | |
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