One of the articles previously published on this blog has already presented new amendments to the Act on wildlife conservation and the Act on forest conservation. The amendments removed a number of restrictions concerning tree and shrub clearance. After long term protests in Poland, on…
In Article 126 of the Real Estate Management Act of 21 August 1997, the legislator provided for an option of temporary seizure of real property in a force majeure event or in an immediate need of serious damage prevention. In such events, a county administrator…
On 1 January 2017 new amendments to the Act on wildlife conservation and the Act on forest conservation came into force and effect. The amendments introduce major changes in the tree and shrub clearance rules providing for new exemptions from the permission requirement. Previous regulations…
New amendment to the Act of 3 October 2008 on providing information on the environment and environmental protection, public participation in the environmental protection and environment impact assessments, adopted by the Parliament last year, will come into force and effect on 1 January 2017. The…
Works on a draft bill on the transformation of joint perpetual usufruct to land for residential purposes into co-ownership are currently pending. Pursuant to the bill, an apartment block dweller or a tenement house dweller, who is a holder of joint perpetual usufruct, by virtue…
Compensation proceedings take a long time and recently have also become expensive. Irrespectively of the expenses incurred for the valuation surveys to prove the value of real estate claimed in compensation proceedings, drawn up by the contracted appraisers or irrespectively of the expenses incurred for…
On 19 July 2016, upon the President’s motion, the Constitutional Court reviewed compliance of amendments to the Real Estate Management Act, i.e. art.: 214a and art. 214b with the Constitution (case file No. Kp 3/15). The amendments significantly affect judicial decisions in administrative proceedings for…