The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management Guidebook
The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management was established on the basis of an amended Act concerning the shaping and protection of nature created on April 27 1989. It began operating on July 1 that same year.
The National Fund’s objectives and scope of activities are defined by the following acts:
The Protection and Shaping of the Environment Act
The Water Act
The Geological and Mining Act
The main objective of the National Fund is funding projects which serve the protection of the environment. These projects have been described in the "National Environmental Policy" adopted by the Polish Parliament in 1991 and specified in the "Implementation Programme for the National Environmental Policy by the year 2000". Their implementation is supervised by the Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry.
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