The environmental protection financing by the local government units

  • Urszula Król

Abstract

The article discusses the rules of financing environmental protection by local self-government units. The statutory tasks specified by local governments in this respect were indicated. Then possible forms of financing environmental protection are presented. Municipality, county or province can use different sources of funding. The next element of the article is to determine the amount of environmental spending at each level of local government in recent years.

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Published
2017-07-27
Section
Original article