MINISTRY OF ECONOMY Guidelines for the Regulation Impact Assessment
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We must first of all identify the economy sectors to be affected by the
proposed solution. The most important industrial sectors able to have an
impact on the climate are:
• transport – various branches, selection of transport means, road
and rail infrastructure projects, waste management (e.g., change
of storage or neutralisation site may involve waste transport over
longer distances), lifestyle change (e.g., transporting children to
school, shopping centres outside cities, far from densely
populated areas, promotion of using city transport),
technological solutions (e.g., more ecological engines);
• energy and industry – production technologies, waste
incineration, heat supplies, production and consumption of
energy, e.g., building standards, energy conservation standards,
energy saving machines and equipment, fuels consumption
structure.
The impact size assessment should include a quantitative estimation to see if the
emission level change will be substantial (e.g., an important part of the whole sector’s
emission or the numbers are big but they make only a small fraction of the emission
of a heavily emitting sector) and to see whether the emission is not taking place at
sensitive areas (the consequences of most emissions are more inconvenient at areas
with low air quality, where the acceptable emission levels are exceeded, and at
ecologically sensitive areas, such as, protected areas and those covered with the
NATURA 2000 network, and areas with high population density).
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Describe how the new regulation can affect the quality and
quantity of available water resources. Will it change the flood risk?
Poland’s water resources per capita are much smaller than the European
Union’s average and, as a result of this, some regions of this country
suffer water supply problems. Shortage of high-quality water is the
main problem of supplying water to the population today but threats
posed by climatic changes to water resources may become more
important in future. This means that drought may become vaster and
longer and floodings more rapid than they are now.
Surface waters play the main role in supplying water to the economy,
they cover 80% of all the demand. Their quality directly affects the
quality of sea waters to which they get from ground water and rivers,
which are sometimes used as drinking water sources. But ground waters
are first of all reserved as good quality drinking water reserves.
Many types of human occupations have a strong impact on water
quality. We must find out whether the proposed option will cause the
following:
• spot contamination – considerable contamination discharge
from one localisation (usually effluents from power, chemical,
timber, paper, waste recycling industries, municipal sewage and
runoff from big urban agglomerations);
• scattered agricultural contamination – contaminants from
farms and fields (e.g., artificial fertilizers and pesticides, wrong
farm waste management);
Water resources
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