Wywłaszczenie a nowe regulacje Prawa geologicznego i górniczego
Expropriation and New Rules of Geological and Mining Law

Summary/Abstract: Art. 21 of the Polish Constitution respects the freedom of ownership, understood as the protected sphere with regard to possess and dispose the property. It forbids the unlawful interference in the individual’s legal status made by the public authorities or any other participant of legal transactions. However, the guarantee of sustainability does not imply inviolability of the property law. Under the constitutional provisions it is concluded that property is a right permitted insofar as it is necessary to ensure the essential public objectives. The expropriation is a legal institution, which enables obtaining rights in real estate recognized for other individuals, if it might be considered necessary to implement public objectives; and through just right compensation. The legal solution, created by the art. 19 of Geological and Mining Law enabling the entrepreneurs to compulsorily buy-out the real estate seems to be dubious from the constitutional point of view. The specificity of legal instruments allowing being deprived of the right or limitation of the right to real estate for the needs of exploration and exploitation of minerals is that such de facto expropriation takes place on favor of private entrepreneurs. The question arises, how much business activity consisting in mining can be considered a public objective.

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