Podział kompetencji między jednostkami samorządu terytorialnego w zakresie planowania i zagospodarowania przestrzennego

The division of planning tasks as regards spatial development among the local government units is defined by the act of the 27th of March 2003 on planning and spatial development. Pursuant to article 3 of this act, the scope of the commune’s own tasks shall comprise shaping and conducting spatial policy located within the commune, including the resolution of the study of determinants and the directions of spatial development and local plans of spatial development (except for internal maritime waters, territorial sea waters and exclusive economic zone and closed territories). On the other hand, the scope of the county self-government tasks shall comprise conducting, within the bounds of its ratione materiae competence, the analyses and studies of spatial development regarding the county area and the issues of its development. Shaping and conducting spatial policy within the area of metropolitan union (metropolitan area) belongs to the tasks of the metropolitan union if such a union was created. However, in a province spatial policy is shaped and conducted by the province self-government, whose tasks comprise the resolution of the spatial development plan of the province.