Ochrona środowiska a status uzdrowiska w świetle prawa planowania przestrzennego

Activity connected directly with preventing results of environmental degradation that are negative for health creates for public authority a sphere of action which combines both environmental protection and health protection. Environmental protection is a legal term with its definition in Art. 3 of Environmental Protection Act of 27 April 2001. Direct connection between environmental protection and health protection finds its reflection in the Act of 28 July 2005 on medical care, health care, health care protection areas and health care communities (called the Act on health resorts). This article contains an analysis of legal conditions connected with awarding a community the status of a health resort, according to the provisions of the Act of 27 March 2003 on spatial planning and development, as well as to the provisions of the above mentioned Act on health resorts.