- As we read in the announcement of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the team for the protection of trees and shrubs will develop legal tools that will effectively protect greenery against unjustified felling or destruction – including, among others: when investing in its surroundings.
- The newly established team will also analyze and organize proposals for legislative changes submitted by various social groups.
- Experts will prepare assumptions for the regulation, which will specify the methods of performing work on the roots, trunk, crown of a tree or on the roots and shoots of a shrub.
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The regulations are already very strict regarding cutting down trees and shrubs
Current regulations do not allow a homeowner to even remove a fallen tree on their property without calling an official, unless it poses a threat to life or property. The homeowner must then call the appropriate services to remove the fallen tree.
Cutting down trees and shrubs is already complicated. The regulations are quite complicated and so complicated that a homeowner may break the law by removing some shrubs or cutting down a tree on his property.
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Moreover, we have already had attempts to liberalize these regulations to allow homeowners to cut down larger trees, and these have failed.
Meanwhile, the current government is making even more stringent regulations related to the felling of trees and shrubs.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection wants to protect against uncontrolled felling of trees and shrubs. But who?
The Ministry of Environment and Environment, together with a team of experts, will develop new regulations that will protect trees and shrubs against uncontrolled felling.
For this reason, the team will focus on:
- definition of a tree, its damage and destruction;
- the amount and method of calculating administrative penalties for damaging or destroying a tree;
- criteria for issuing permits for the removal of trees and shrubs;
- regulations regarding replacement plantings, compensation for losses caused by tree felling;
- activities to preserve existing trees and shrubs in the investment process;
- rules for informing about the planned removal of a tree or shrub.
However, the above regulations already apply, they are complicated, and the penalties for damage or illegal felling or destruction of trees are severe . There is no information about simplifying these regulations in this announcement by the Ministry of Culture and Environment .
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The work will also analyze the principles of greenery protection in local spatial development plans, decisions on development conditions and land development. The regulations governing the protection of trees and shrubs in areas entered in the register of monuments and cemetery areas will also be subject to revision.
The regulations developed will primarily affect:
- greater protection of the green urban environment,
- permanent strengthening of the protection of existing greenery,
- reducing the urban heat island and eliminating the phenomenon of local flooding (through the development of green retention),
- stopping the progressive loss of biodiversity,
- providing proper shelter for birds, which will contribute to successful breeding.
