Rozważania w przedmiocie adekwatności i sprawiedliwości administracyjnych kar pieniężnych na gruncie ustawy o ochronie przyrody, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem kar z tytułu usunięcia drzew i krzewów bez wymaganego zezwolenia
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2013
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Adequacy and fairness of administrative monetary penalties under the Nature Conservation Act with particular emphasis on fines for felling trees and shrubs without the required permit
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The aim of this paper is evaluation of the adequacy and fairness of the regulations
governing fi nancial sanctions for administrative torts pursuant to the provisions of
the Polish Nature Conservation Act. The paper addresses the nature of administrative
liability in the above respect.
The nature of administrative liability and its purpose requires to pose a question
whether the fi nancial sanctions administered by administrative courts are adequate
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and not unnecessarily excessive, i.e. whether, in other words, if they are not unproportional
to the ‘weight’ of the committed tort. Administrative monetary penalties
should be proportional to the seriousness of the tort and to the individual circumstances
of each case. Only a just punishment may act preventively on the perpetrator
and on the society as well.
The manner in which the proceedings aimed to determine administrative responsibility
and sanction rulings are formed is discussed, and it is pointed out that the
quasi-penal nature of administrative fi nancial penalties should ensure that the procedural
differences increase the procedural guarantees due to the administrated parties.
The current legal system does not account for the possibility of waiving the punishment
by an administrative body under special circumstances. However, this issue
is currently being a subject of consultations in the course of a legislative process on
the amendments to the proceedings regarding the Nature Conservation Act.
The analysis of the existing regulations shows that illegal felling of trees is subject
to excessive fi nes and is, therefore, in disproportion to the importance of the
protected values.
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administrative sanctions, removal of trees or shrubs without the required, administered responsibility, protection of woodlots
Citation
Studia Prawa Publicznego, 2013, Nr 2, s. 137-159
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978-83-232-2666-6