• Subject of the issue: Five installations requiring notification
    Many enterprises run their business and often do not know that a given installation requires notification due to the emission of gases and dust into the air. Unfortunately, they often find out about it during a VIEP inspection. In this article, we will present the most popular installations that require notification to the local staroste.
  • New BDO modules now available
    As a result of work on the Product and Packaging Database and Waste Management, at the beginning of June 2020, in terms of the Reporting Module, it is planned to make available a functionality that allows reporting on products, packaging and waste management. In turn, reports on waste generated and waste management will be made available in mid-June 2020.
  • Find out how to deal with technical problems at BDO!
    There are technical problems in the operation of the Database on products and packaging and waste management (BDO), such as the inability to log in by some of its users. How to deal with them?
  • Warning! New date for the external audit
    On May 16, 2020, the Act of May 14 on the amendment of certain protective measures in connection with the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus entered into force, according to which the audit must be carried out by September 30, 2020.
  • Validity of waste decisions during an epidemic
    Due to difficulties in the offices that are competent to issue decisions in the field of waste management or to change these decisions, the government changed the regulations. From May 16, 2020, the Act amending certain acts in the field of protective measures in connection with the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been in force, according to which the terms of validity of decisions on waste management will be extended.
  • How is the procedure for agreeing planning documents
    Polish Waters are responsible for preparing, updating and agreeing on many draft planning documents. The procedure of agreeing documents related to the planned development or planned development of land located in areas particularly at risk of flooding has been included in the Water Law Act. In practice, this means that the applicant applies to the locally competent director of the regional water management board of Polish Waters to agree on the project specified in the above-mentioned the planning documents act. Refusal to agree positively for the applicant is a ground for refusing to issue a decision.
  • Types of air emissions - how to distinguish them
    In terms of environmental protection regulations, there are two types of air pollutant emissions: organized and unorganized. What are they? You will find out from the article.
  • How to market photovoltaic panels
    Question: Is there any procedure for a natural person engaged in a production activity in agriculture in the field of poultry farming or breeding with a BDO number, regarding the import of photovoltaic panels? Are there any fees for this?
  • Warehousing or landfilling of waste
    Question: We are a company that operates in the field of linear works without installations (the activity does not require a permit for the production of waste and its transport). For technological and organizational reasons, soil, debris and dismantled pipes (from the modernization of heating networks) are often transported to a landfill outside the construction site where they were produced, and which is located at the company's premises. Then, after some time, we transport them to the recipient collecting waste. Please answer, do we need a permit for the landfilling of waste? Is this process pre-storage or interim storage?
  • What is the difference between the recycling fee and the product fee
    Question: I run a small shop and offer shopping bags to my customers. These carrier bags are brought into the state of the store, and the sales of these carrier bags are made with a margin imposed. Do I have to be entered in the BDO in this case? In your article in issue 173 it says that if the bags taken out on the store's state are sold with a margin imposed by the store, they are not treated as packaging, but they are products, and thus we should not be entered in the BDO. So what about the recycling fee in this case? I think I mix these two BDO things with the recycling fee and the requirements that come with it.

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