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Minister of the Environment, as the member of the Council of Ministers (i.e. the Cabinet), provides input to both domestic and international policies of the Republic of Poland in these parts thereof which are not restricted for other Governmental Authorities and Self-Governmental Bodies, in particular by means of:

• securing execution of the Parliamentary Acts ("the Acts"),
• making respective Regulations and Orders,
• coordination and control of the activities pursued by the Governmental Administration Authorities,
• initiation and development of the sectoral Governmental policies and revealing the relevant initiatives in this scope, including the Draft Proposals for the Acts, on debates of the Council of Ministers,
• implementation of policies approved by the Council of Ministers.

Minister of the Environment manages "The Environment" and "Water Management" sectors of the Governmental Administration. 

• Water Management sector, under the Act on Governmental Sectors, to cover the following matters: 
  • development, protection and rational use of water resources,
  • maintenance of inland surface waters being the property of the State Treasury and the relevant accompanying technical infrastructure connected with these waters, including waterworks and other such facilities,
  • construction, modification and maintenance of the inland waterways,
  • flood protection, including construction, modification and maintenance of the flood control facilities, and coordination of the flood control projects throughout the national territory,
  • performance of the National Hydrological and Meteorological Services, except for monitoring groundwater quality,
  • international cooperation on the boundary waters in the scope covering the sectoral activities.
• The Environment sector, under the Act on Governmental Sectors, to cover the following matters:
  • environmental protection and development, including rational use of environmental resources,
  • nature conservation, including in the National Parks, Landscape Parks, nature reserves, and protection of plant and animal species, legally protected forests, animals of game and other natural creatures,
  • allotment gardens,
  • geology,
  • management of natural resources,
  • control over compliance with environmental requirements and survey of the state of the environment,
  • forestry,
  • protection of forests and forest species,
  • hunting,
  • genetically modified organisms, except for the matters which relate to granting permits to place foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals on the market and the genetically modified organisms provided for use as animal fodder, and genetically modified fodder in the scope of the responsibilities and activities set forth in specific legal provisions.
•  Minister of the Environment provides supervision over:
  • the activities managed by the National Water Management Authority and the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (as the Minister responsible for water management sector),
  • the activities managed by the National Atomic Energy Agency, the State Mining Authority, the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, and the "State Forests" National Holding (as the Minister responsible for the environment).
• The Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection shall be subordinated directly to Minister of the Environment;
• Minister of the Environment, under the aforementioned scope of responsibilities,:
  • sets forth, by way of Regulation, the list of organisational entities subordinated directly to and supervised by the Minister of the Environment,
  • provides management of and control over the activity profiles of the authorities, agencies and entities subordinated thereto, in particular by means of:

- funding and dissolving, as necessary, of the organisational entities,
- appointment and dismissal, as appropriate, of the managers of the organisational entities,
- management of inspection over performance of the activity profiles, managerial effectiveness and legal compliance of the organisational entities, as provided for under the Act on the Council of Ministers.

• Minister of the Environment, as the dispatcher of the Parts 22^nd and 41^st of the State Budget, provides supervision and control over
  • the integrity of financial management in organisational entities  subordinate thereto and the compliance by these entities with the implementation of the control procedure and the principle of the preliminary assessment of purposefulness of the expenses incurred thereby,
  • the use of donations granted with the State Budget resources,
  • the implementation of the tasks implemented with the State budgetary resources,
  • the conformity to the financial control procedure to be complied with when execution of the budgetary expenses. 
     

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