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Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making
Balážová, Julie ; Sobotka, Michal (advisor) ; Fiala, Zdeněk (referee)
Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making Abstract This thesis is dealing with participation of public in environmental administrative proceedings. The topic is widely discussed in connection with efforts to quicken planning and construction proceedings. It is, however, far from limited to them - the subject matter is scattered in a multitude of legal acts. Therefore, the aim of this work is to present various acts and analyse the requirements for and the extent of participation of persons in proceedings conducted under them in a compact manner. Firstly, the readers are familiarised with forms of "participation" and various definitions of "public". The legal sources of this topic are introduced next, and a few, that will be addressed in detail in the following parts of this thesis, are selected. Afterwards, the author explains how the code of administrative procedure defines parties to proceedings, how is that important for talking about other acts and what problems can arise from applying these provisions in practice. The next part introduces the readers to an international document that deals with public participation in general - the Aarhus convention and explains its importance in European and Czech law. Furthermore, the author focuses on characterization of legal acts on integrated...
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Case-law of the European Court of Justice on environmental protection
Kolafová, Lenka ; Sobotka, Michal (advisor) ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (referee)
59 SHRNUTÍ Diplomová práce se zabývá judikaturou Evropského soudního dvora na vybraném úseku ochrany životního prostředí. V konkrétním případě jde o problematiku odpadů. Odpady jsou samozřejmý produkt lidské činnosti a je nutné stanovit jasně daná pravidla, jak s nimi nakládat, tak aby bylo minimalizováno riziko dopadu na životní prostředí či lidské zdraví. Práce je rozdělena do tří částí. Na úvod je zmíněno postavení a právní základy pro činnost Evropského soudního dvora v rámci systémů orgánů Evropských společenství, jeho organizační struktura a stručně i průběh řízení. Je zde také zmíněn vliv Lisabonské smlouvy na fungování ESD. Ve druhé kapitole se věnuji roli ESD v oblasti ochrany životního prostředí. Jsou zde identifikovány vybrané typy řízení před ESD a ke každému typu řízení je podána i statistika za určité časové období. Třetí část mé práce se zaměřuje již zcela na judikaturu ESD v oblasti odpadů. Jsou zde rozebrány klíčové judikáty zabývající se centrálním pojmem odpad, zejména předpoklady klasifikace materiálu jako odpadu a vymezení pojmu vedlejšího produktu, podmínkami přepravy odpadů a přesahem odpadového hospodářství do problematiky volného pohybu zboží, jedné ze základních svobod Společenství. V této kapitole se také zabývám vývojem komunitární právní úpravy odpadů. SUMMARY This diploma...
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Right to the favourable environment in Czech law and the law of British Columbia
Čechtická, Alena ; Damohorský, Milan (advisor) ; Sobotka, Michal (referee)
- 76 - SUMMARY RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IN CZECH LAW AND IN THE LAW OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Master's degree dissertation compares right to a healthy environment in the Czech Republic and in British Columbia, a Canadian province, and makes this comparison upon a variety of standpoints. The work also broaches the environmental regulation in both these mentioned countries in general, as the regulation gives us the context in which the right in question is applied and enforced. The first part of the work is an introductory part that leads us into the area. The first part of work compares definition of fundamental terms related to the focus of this work between legal systems of the Czech Republic and British Columbia. The comparison shows the term "environment" is defined in both these countries quite similarly, but the term "healthy environment" is in none of these countries defined positively, but rather negatively, by enacting values and conditions under which environment can be declared unhealthy. The following part describes the development of legal regulation of environment and in that scope also the right to a healthy environment. The chapter shows that British Columbia, in its hundred years of modern history of legal protection of environment, developed into a phase where environmental law is basically...
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Right to information on the environment
Polcarová, Kristýna ; Žákovská, Karolina (advisor) ; Sobotka, Michal (referee)
The international obligations of the Czech Republic in relation to the right to information on the environment, following from its membership in the European Union and from the ratification of the Aarhus Convention, were fulfilled formally especially by adopting the Act on the Right of Access to Information on the Environment (InfŽPZ) and the Act on Free Access to Information (InfZ). As follows from the facts mentioned in the chapters above, however, the coexistence of both legal regulations in practice is not always easy, for the liable subjects may have difficulties especially in distinguishing, which of the two is to be used to proceed in a particular case. Further, difficulties may also occur in practice where one part of a request is to be treated under InfŽPZ and the other under InfZ. Here, the liable subject will have to deal with different legal process regulations, concerning especially the terms of attendance to the request and to the filed appeal. It is obvious that such a situation is complicated unnecessarily both for the liable subject and for the claimant, again only increasing the demands for the knowledge of law of the involved parties. With respect to the purpose of this legislation, however, it should be noted that the legislator should have de lege ferenda chosen such a legal...
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Movement and hazardous wastes management from the perspective of international law
Diblíková, Anna ; Damohorský, Milan (advisor) ; Sobotka, Michal (referee)
89 Summary Movement and hazardous wastes management from the prespective of International law. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the movement and hazardous wastes management or more precisely the international and European law that regulates it. The movement, particularly the transboundary movement, and the management belong to high risky activities considering the protection of human life and the environment. Hand in hand with the management of radioactive waste and chemical substances, they fall under the subject matter of International Environmental Law (IEL). Most of the sources of IEL are not binding "soft law" due to the delicacy of the subject matter on which is hard to get a global consent. In the centre of the attention is the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. Unfortunately it can not be described as a global convention, because the contracting parties are virtually only states of the Euro-American region. On the other side stands the Bamako Convention which was prepared by the Organization of African Unity and which placed the total ban on imports of hazardous wastes to the African continent. International law is to be considered just one layer of the analysed legislation. Second one is the European law. Europe Union regulates...
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Legal aspects of brown coal exploitation limits
Beňasová, Kateřina ; Sobotka, Michal (advisor) ; Damohorský, Milan (referee)
The thesis aims to provide an analysis of the legal limits imposed on brown coal exploitation in the Czech Republic, including an assessment of how these limits enter into particular stages of coal mining. The first chapter summarizes the applicable mining law legislation. The second chapter deals with restrictions set out by protection of the environment rules. Furthermore, the following chapter focuses on specific topic of so called ecological limits of exploitation. The fourth chapter points out the limits laid by the right of ownership. Finally, the thesis comprises a summary of contained conclusions.
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