Utworzenie Państwowego Gospodarstwa Wodnego „Wody Polskie” jako przejaw koncentracji zadań i kompetencji w obszarze gospodarki wodnej – wybrane zagadnienia
Establishing of the State Water Farm “Polish Waters” as an Effect of the PublicmAuthorities Tasks and Competences Accumulation in the Field of Water Management – Selected Issues

Summary/Abstract: The Act of 20.07.2017 – Water Law, which entered into force on January 1, 2018, introduced a change in the organizational and legal structure as well as the division of public authorities tasks and competences regarding water management. A new structure was established – the State Water Farm “Polish Waters” (PW). PW are an unified institutional structure, which replaced, as a rule, the authorities previously operating in the area of water management and focused a wide group of specialized and profiled tasks and competences in that area. Several types of tasks and competences in the area of water management being previously dispersed among many authorities and entrusted in large part to general public authorities were concentrated. The aim of this article is to analyze the selected tasks and competences in the field of water management that were concentrated: issuing of water law permits and cumulating in PW’s hands of the issues requiring highly specialized knowledge regarding water management, which can occur in other proceedings. The article aims to show that while these changes undoubtedly may be important for streamlining and accelerating the investment process in the area of water management, the existence of certain ambiguities, imprecision between the rules, their mutual inconsistency may result in problems for authorities and investors obliged to use them, and therefore, the degree of achieving the intended effect may be smaller. It is also reasonable to introduce some additional regulations.

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