Nowelizacja ustawy o odpadach: nowe obowiązki przedsiębiorców zbierających lub/i przetwarzających odpady — wybrane aspekty
The amendment to the Waste Act: new obligations of the entrepreneurs collecting and / or processing waste — selected aspects

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to present doubts related to the new legal instruments introduced by the Act of 20 July 2018 amending the Act on Waste and some other acts, which entered into force on September 5, 2018. The Amendment to the Act on Waste, adopted at the time when fires of installations for waste management and the so-called wild dumps were sweeping through Poland in the period June — July 2018, was supposed to be an antidote to the problems of excessive accumulation of waste in waste collection areas and in places not provided for such a purpose. Not exactly precise redaction of the provisions led to a situation in which, after several months from the date when the amendment came into force, there are still many questions requiring deeper analysis or amendment of the amended provisions. The main changes concern the shortening of the waste storage period, the introduction of mandatory video monitoring of storage and waste storage, change of the competent authority for issuing permits for collecting and processing waste, limiting the list of legal titles to real properties on which waste management can be carried out, introduction of competences to the Waste Act granted to the city (poviat) commander of the State Fire Service at the stage of applying for a permit and at the stage of control, introducing the need to lodge security for claims or new grounds for refusal of related permits, including the punishment of partners and members of company bodies. Due to the fact that the intertemporal regulations require entrepreneurs conducting economic activity in the waste management sector to submit applications for the change of existing permits — under pain of their expiry — within 12 months from the date of the entry into force of the amendment to the Waste Act (i.e. until 5 September 2019), it seems necessary to urgently focus on this topic.

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