Małgorzata Dudzińska

Rural development programme in Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria

For several reasons, rural areas in Poland developed much more slowly than urban areas, and to a large extent, they have been neglected. The situation was much improved after Poland’s accession to the EU, with continuous flow of funds for the development of agriculture. These actions facilitated faster development of such areas, while the structure of the latter has improved. The current instrument for the implementation of the EU policy for rural areas, operating within the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy, is the Rural Development Programme for the years 2007–2013 (RDP 2007–2013). The present document contains a comparative analysis of the Rural Development Programme 2007–2013 as implemented within three states, namely: Poland, Austria, and the Czech Republic. General conditions and limits to the granted financial assistance have been determined in the EU regulations, therefore they can not differ between Poland, the Czech Republic, and Austria. What differs, however, is the projects and investment tasks implemented within particular measures. In the article, the aforementioned countries have been compared in terms of rural areas, and in terms of measures implemented within the Rural Development Programme in each of them. It has been noted that there have been 44 measures implemented within the Rural Development Programme 2007–2013, while only 19 of these are implemented within thematic axis 2 – improving the environment and countryside. Poland is implementing 26 measures in total, the Czech Republic is implementing 32, and Austria – 31. The highest amount of financing per country’s area went to Austria, and the lowest – to the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic possesses the most favourable structure of the rural areas, while Poland possesses the least favourable structure thereof. In the present work, the method of logical and descriptive analysis was employed, based on the Polish and international subject literature.

Importance of the activity of the community of residents of rural communes in obtaining European Union resources for infrastructure investments – based on the example of selected rural communes

Poland as a member state of the EU has a possibility of obtaining assistance funds supporting socio-economic development. It is currently the most important instrument of the regional and local development policy. The possibility of obtaining resources from the EU frequently determines the choice of types of investment implemented by SGU. Self-governments have so far shown great mobilisation in obtaining EU funds. 78% of communes in Poland obtained support from EU funds for implemented projects. The amount of support obtained by JST in comparison to other groups of recipients makes them the largest recipient of EU assistance. The activity and efficiency of communes is varied, and so is the scale of obtained financial resources for the implementation of investment projects co-financed from the EU. Reasons for differences in reaching for European resources are associated with among others varied activity and determination of the authorities of communes for obtaining EU resources. The social activity of residents is also important. They choose their representatives in the authorities of the commune. Their attitude has an effect on the activity of SGU. The article attempts to analyse correlations between the social activity of communities in the analysed communes and the amount of obtained support from the EU funds for the implementation of infrastructural investments. The analysis was performed for three study objects: communes located in three provinces: Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Podlaskie, and Zachodniopomorskie. The research was conducted with the application of qualitative methods, in particular the analysis and logical construction, including the identification.

Assessment of land fragmentation for the purpose of land consolidation works as exemplified by the Pasym commune

In Poland there are no uniform regulations and legal norms establishing the principles of space assessment aimed at determining the demand for land consolidation works. The article is an attempt to answer the following question: what factors are important today in determining the demand for this kind of works? The factors were set on the basis of professional literature and on a questionnaire conducted on a group of specialists in land consolidation and on farmers. The aim of the questionnaire was to examine the preferences of chosen land fragmentation factors. The survey was carried out in the Pasym commune, situated in the Warmia and Mazury Voivodeship. The results of the research show that the land fragmentation mostly depends on the number of land plots (parcels) in a farm, their distance to a settlement and the size of a land plot. The least significant factors in this respect proved: a size of a farm and its irregular shape. The research has confirmed a general tendency in spatial changes of small farms in the Warmia and Mazury Voivodeship.

Information on the Environment and its Protection in Real Property Management

Abstract Environmental protection regulations influence the use of real property. Land located within the borders of a national park or nature reserve is subject to partial or total restriction on development by construction, as well as, amongst others, business, trade, manufacturing or agricultural activities. Such areas are also subject to landscape protection, whereby real development by construction is possible, but only under the condition that it does not clash with the landscape values of the area. Therefore, real property management in such areas requires careful coordination with the relevant legislation concerning environmental protection. While it is currently possible to obtain such information from existing environmental protection databases and systems, this has practical problems owing to the large amount of them and their scattered locations. Additionally, as each institution involved in environmental issues has collected material independently, there is a high level of data repetition as well as incomplete data. Such problems make it difficult to make full use of the database systems. A lack of communication and reference between these databases and systems can create confusion. Comparative data on the same subject often differs depending on the source (as concerns graphic presentation and, much less frequently, data attributes). For example, the course of the same river differs depending on which data resources are used (NAŁĘCZ 2007). There are several hundreds of databases and registers maintained in Poland, with almost 300 databases and registers controlled by the Ministry of Environment. Almost 60 such databases can be found in public administrative bodies alone. A portion of the data regarding this topic is openly available on the Internet. The aim of the paper is to present the existing information systems concerning environmental protection. The paper will also examine data obtained from these resources, as well as their availability and connections with real property management activities.

Analysis of Activities Aimed at Increasing the Value of Property - Research Results

Abstract The main aim of the study was to analyse the possibilities of increasing the market value of a property through various activities. Such activities referred to in the literature as “value based management” and are commonly applied in enterprise management. In the case of properties, this system is based on the appropriate identification of factors making up the value of the property. These factors can be divided into two groups, i.e., objective factors, independent of activities undertaken by the owner or the manager of the property, and subjective factors resulting from a consciously implemented policy. Since only the second group of activities depends on the property manager, it is possible to introduce “value based management” with regard to the manager’s activities. This article presents a case study implemented on a part of hospital property. The analysis proved that the method used can also be applied to undeveloped parts of the property and that the market value of the property in individual investigated scenarios reaches 100%.