Współdziałanie organizacji społecznych z właściwymi instytucjami państwowymi i samorządowymi w ujawnianiu oraz ściganiu przestępstw i wykroczeń określonych w ustawie o ochronie zwierząt
Cooperation between welfare organizations and competent state and local government institutions in revealing as well as prosecuting crimes and offences referred to in the law on protection of animals

Summary/Abstract: In the process of humanitarian protection of animals welfare organizations play an extremely significant role. It is somewhat reflected in the regulations of the law of the 21st day of August 1997 on animal protection (i.e. Dz.U. /Official Journal/ 2019, item. 122), where the legislator obligates the Veterinary Inspection and other competent authorities of government administration and local government to cooperate in the subject scope with welfare organizations, whose statutory purpose is animal protection. Unfortunately, the normative value of these regulations is insignificant, just like the scale of their practical application. The best example of that is the title possibility of cooperation in the field of revealing and prosecuting crimes and offences. That leads to the situation when welfare organizations themselves frequently postulate removing from the law on animal protection of the regulations they are the addressees of, and which, in their assessment, due to their general character and anachronism, lead exclusively to blurring of the responsibility for the fate of animals. Meanwhile, it must be taken into consideration that the level of co-operation between the society and state institutions is the measure of democracy in a given society and a feature characterizing civil society.

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