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Joanna Szymańska IMPROVEMENT IN SANITARY CONDITIONS IN LOWER SILESIA
AS ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF REGIONAL POLICY FOR 2004-2006 – SELECTED PROBLEMS
• Priority I: Development and modernisation of the infrastructure to enhance the
competitiveness of regions.
• Priority II: Strengthening the human resources development in regions.
• Priority III: Local development.
• Priority IV: Technical assistance.
Within the Priority I (Measure 1.2.), there were implemented, among other things, the
investments on environmental protection with the total value from EUR 1 million to
EUR 10 million. The projects with the value below EUR 1 million were implemented
within the Priority III (“Local development”), while the projects with the value over
EUR 10 million - from the resources of the Cohesion Fund, from which the projects in
the scope of environmental protection management with the minimum total value of
EUR 300 thousand were financed [7].
Summary
In the first years after Poland’s accession to EU structures (2004-2006), in the
investigated Lower Silesian Voivodeship, there took place fairly favourable changes in
the scope of availability of technical infrastructure installations for environmental
protection. The total length of the sewage system increased by 10.5% and the total
length of the water supply system increased by 4.1%. Unfavourable disproportions
between the length of the water supply system and the sewage system decreased (from
2.1:1 in 2004 to 1.95:1 in 2006). There increased the percentage of inhabitants making
use of sewage treatment plants (from 73.0 to 74.6%) and the share of industrial and
municipal effluents in the total sewage for treatment (from 96 to 96.5%). The
decreasing share of capital expenditures in the total expenditures on environmental
protection (from 4.8 to 3.9 %) and water management (from 2.3 to1.4%) is disturbing.
However, there should be taken into account new possibilities, which occurred in the
analysed scope, especially after Poland’s accession to EU structures, namely the
financial resources gained by the investigated region from structural funds, Cohesion
Fund, and other sources. The Lower Silesian Voivodeship received, within the
Integrated Regional Operational Programme 2004-2006, EUR 226.3 million from
structural funds, which allowed it to take the third place in Poland, after the
Mazowieckie and Śląskie Voivodeships. The most funds - as many as EUR 127.8
million - were assigned for realization of the Priority I. - Development and
modernisation of the infrastructure to enhance the competitiveness of regions (56.5% of
funds), then for realization of the Priority III - Local development (EUR 60.3 million),
after that for Priority II - Strengthening the human resources development in regions
(EUR 35.5 million), and the least – for Priority IV - Technical assistance (EUR 2.7
million). With respect to the value of contracted allocation, the Lower Silesian
Voivodeship is in the group of 8 regions, which fully used the available funds. A certain
portion of these funds was connected directly or indirectly with environmental
protection. As it appears from the information included in the Regional Operational
Program for the Lower Silesian Voivodeship for 2007-2013, with respect to the
environmental protection infrastructure, Lower Silesian communes decided, first of all,
to execute their own tasks, solving the most important problems encountered by their
residents, including problems in the scope of sewage system infrastructure. At the same
time, it was emphasized in the Program that demand for this type of support will be still
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