Legal Regulation of Air Quality Protection Abstract This diploma thesis provides an overview of the legislation on air quality in the Czech Republic with a focus on the regulation in the Act No. 201/2012 Coll., on air protection including a detailed analysis of some problematic aspects and current issues. Air pollution is the actual global issue that is discussed not only in the Czech Republic but also all over the world, mainly because of the harmful effects on human health and the environment. This paper is organized as follows. The introductory chapter defines the necessary terms, which are essential to the following text of the paper. This chapter also describes the distribution of air pollutant sources and the importance of this distribution for subsequent obligations. The next chapter provides an overview of the historical development of Czech, international and European air quality legislation following by chapters, where the individual types of regulatory instruments to reduce air pollution are analyzed. The chapter on conceptual instruments mainly focuses on the National Emission Reduction Programme of the Czech Republic and an Air Quality Improvement Programs, including an analysis of the changes brought by the amendment to the Air Protection Act implemented by Act No. 172/2018 Coll. Moreover...

The theme of the theses is the new legal regulation of air quality protection in Czech Republic, which is mainly represented by the Act no. 201/2012 Coll. on Air Protection. The opening chapters deal with the definitions of the basic terms in this legal area, the characteristic of the main air pollutants and the development of the air protection legal regulation in Czech Republic. The treatise on the new legal regulation is divided by the legal instruments of air quality protection - the individual chapters deal with conceptual, administrative-legal and vindicatory, economical and specific instruments. The final chapter contains the summary of the major changes and the evaluation of the new legal regulation.

Diploma thesis focuses on air protection, especially on the issues of unlisted sources of air pollution according to the czech Air Protection Act. It aims on small stationary sources of pollution that are subject to a softer regulation then huge polluters. Important group of small stationary sources are boilers used in homes to heat them up. In the case, that the operator of the sources does not fulfil his/her responsabilities according to the Air Protection Act, he/she can cause damage to the environment and endanger neighbours health. But because of the right of privacy it is not possible to control the source. The paper analysis the possibilities to resolve the dilemma between three constitutional rights - right of privacy against right to a favourable environment and right to the protection of health. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This thesis is concerned on topic Instruments of environmental protection in Czech law. It exists a lot of instruments of environmental protection, which are connected with law in some way. This thesis is concentrated on the most important a most widely used. The first chapter presents an brief introduction to the issue, it deals with general environmental protection, categorisation of instruments and with environmental protection on international and European level. The second chapter deals with conceptual instruments, which includes different policies, plans, programs, projects and other documents that constitute the conditions for the functioning of other categories of instruments. In this chapter is purpose, categorisation and way of creation of conceptual instruments described. It includes examples of conceptual instruments in Czech law as well. The third chapter covers administrative instruments. It is the oldest and most widely used category of instruments of environmental protection. They are mainly represented by general legal rules and individual administrative acts. This category also contains standards, categorisation, inspection and eco-legal liability. The fourth chapter is focused on economic instruments. The aim of it is to motivate subject to behave ecologicaly. The motivation is...

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of legal regulation of air protection against air pollution from unlisted sources. Unlisted sources are a group of stationary sources, that are not listed in Annex 2 of Act No. 201/2012 Coll., On air protection. It is a diverse group of minor sources of air pollution, which are generally subject to softer regulation than the sources listed. On one hand, unlisted sources are less polluting than listed sources, but on the other hand, their number is much higher. In total, they are even the largest polluters in terms of emissions of some substances. Unlisted sources can be divided into combustion and non-combustion sources. With regards to their frequency, the subject of the paper is mainly unlisted combustion sources. A typical example of such unlisted source is a solid fuel boiler designed to heat a building. The first part of the thesis focuses on air protection in general and its subject is also an explanation of how the sources of air pollution are divided. In the second part, the system of instruments of regulation of unlisted sources is described. The thesis aims to outline the possibilities of their practical application and to assess their impact on the state of the air. The third part contains the liability and supervision in field of air protection...

The thesis focuses on the role of municipalities in the air protection, particularly on the legal instruments of municipalities within their individual and delegated jurisdiction. The thesis consists of six chapters. The first chapter is introductory and is aimed at the air as the subject of legislation. The second chapter focuses on legislation of municipalities and other chapters describe the role of municipalities in land use, placement and approval of stationary sources of pollution. Further chapter points out specific legal instruments used in transport and the last chapter deals with the possibilities of the municipalities in relation to air pollution by individuals. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The presented diploma thesis provides the comprehensive presentation about the low emission zones that become more and more used instrument of air protection in european metropolises and in smaller cities. There are already circa sixty low emission zones in Deutschland, in the Czech Republic this instrument hasn't been used yet. Therefore the diploma thesis' determined goal was to analyze the legal regulation of the low emissions zones to clearify the division consisting in absence of low emission zones in the Czech Republic. Systematicall structure of the diploma thesis into six part is the result of the author's aim to make the presentation transparent. The first part of the diploma thesis represents the introduction into the theme of the air protection and provides a brief overview of relevant legal regulations just as the analysis of air pollutants including their negative effect on the peopel's health and on the environment. The author provides the presentation of transport regulation possibilities that the cities are able to realize (excluding the low emission zones). The third part deals with the implementation of the low emission zones into the czech law and with the development of legal regulation of the low emission zones. The detailed analysis of current legal regulation regarding the...

The protection of fundamental rights and freedoms is the basic element of every modern democratic society. These rights are regulated in many international treaties and at the same time the states set them out in their constitutions. The Czech Republic is no exception. In the application of fundamental rights conflicts occur from time to time, and one of the rights must retreat to another. This thesis deals with the collision of the right to favourable environment and the right to inviolability of the home. The main theme is the new regulation of the Act no. 201/2012 Coll. on Air Protection, which from January 1st , 2017 allows the direct control of the combustion stationary air pollution sources and fuels in the households.

Mobile sources, i.e. self-propelled or portable devices equipped with an internal combustion engine, are a significant contributor to air pollution and the regulation of air protection against pollution from these sources is an important part of environmental law. This area of law is currently evolving and changing very rapidly, as it is closely linked to a number of current issues, in particular climate change. The question posed by the diploma thesis is what is the current level of air protection against pollution from mobile sources in the Czech Republic, whether it is sufficient, and what is the possible development in the future. Therefore, the thesis contains a comprehensive analysis of current legislation, taking into account the various approaches by which the law seeks to regulate mobile sources and their operation, and includes topics such as introducing mobile sources to the market, regulating their operation, setting fuel quality requirements; further deals with legislation on alternative fuels and, last but not least, deals with legal instruments of air protection, which aim to maintain or improve air quality in a certain area in relation to mobile sources. Given that a significant part of the current legislation in the Czech Republic is based on international, and particularly on EU law, in...

The thesis deals with the legal regulation of air protection on the municipal level. It is focused on providing an overview of legal instruments which are available on the municipal level, as well as the evaluation of their sufficiency and efficiency and point out the most significant instruments and some shortcomings of recent legislation. Some chosen instruments embodied in Czech law are compared with relevant German regulation. Also some specific, arguable constitutional aspects are taken in consideration and evaluated. The thesis provides a comparison of the old and the new Act on the Protection of Air at the field of interest.