Product Charges as an Economic Instrument to Internalize Environmental Negative Externalities - Nature, Objectives and Criteria For Design and Implementation

• Autorzy: Bogusław Fiedor
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The execution of dues in the Polish system of administrative law was regulated as a whole in a bill of acts dated 17th June 1966 [Dziennik ustaw, 1991] together with its executive acts [Dziennik Ustaw, 2001a]. Passed nearly 35 years ago, this bill introduced general rules for the execution of dues to local government. In particular, a model was accepted with special bills regarding specific issues, as well as a comprehensive bill regarding the procedure of executing dues. On the one hand, this model is intended to ensure the proper functioning of the whole system, on the other it is supposed to lead to the execution of dues and means of control being handled by official bodies, specified by law and equipped to carry out these tasks in an appropriate and efficient way. Other rules included in the primary form of the bill worth mentioning consist of the introduction of a dichotomous division of dues into financial debts and nonfinancial dues. Moreover, the principles of executing dues were formulated and the duties and rights of specific participants, including the body enforcing the execution of dues, the body to which a due is owed (the creditor) and the body owing a due (the obliged) were defined. The procedure of the execution of a due is undoubtedly a significant part of administrative procedure. It is a kind of 'buckie', a finishing element, a closing of administrative proceedings, which are often long and arduous, and is crown(fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Ecology; Environmental protection; Product charges; Instruments for environment protection

PL

Ekologia; Ochrona środowiska; Opłaty produktowe; Instrumenty ochrony środowiska

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2003
• Numer: Vol. 3
• Strony: 15--25

Twórcy

autor

Bogusław Fiedor

• Wrocław University of Economics, Poland

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