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<p>The right to a favourable environment is a constitutionally guaranteed right. It is also linked to the duty of every entity to protect and improve the environment. The rights and obligations related to this are further regulated in the legislation of parliament. However, the municipality has also its irreplaceable place in ensuring environment protection, including in the form of issuance of generally binding regulations. The purpose of this paper is the assessment of the municipality’s competence in the field of environmental protection, taking into account its legislative competence. The aim is to examine the definition of the municipality’s power to issue generally binding regulations in the previous decision-making activity of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, the subsequent legislative changes and the current state of the scope of these powers of municipalities.</p>
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The right to a favourable environment is a constitutionally guaranteed right. It is also linked to the duty of every entity to protect and improve the environment. The rights and obligations related to this are further regulated in the legislation of parliament. However, the municipality has also its irreplaceable place in ensuring environment protection, including in the form of issuance of generally binding regulations. The purpose of this paper is the assessment of the municipality’s competence in the field of environmental protection, taking into account its legislative competence. The aim is to examine the definition of the municipality’s power to issue generally binding regulations in the previous decision-making activity of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, the subsequent legislative changes and the current state of the scope of these powers of municipalities.

Environmental Protection in Municipal Legislation

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice

EU agrarian Law

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The right to a favourable environment is a constitutionally guaranteed right. It is also linked to the duty of every entity to protect and improve the...

Environmental Protection in Municipal Legislation

Published Online: Jun 27, 2024

Page range: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eual-2024-0001

Keywords
right to a favourable environment, legislation, municipalities

© 2024 Radomír Jakab., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Environmental Protection in Municipal Legislation

Published Online: Jun 27, 2024

Page range: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eual-2024-0001

Keywordsright to a favourable environment, legislation, municipalities

© 2024 Radomír Jakab., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
right to a favourable environment, legislation, municipalities