Commentary on the Judgement of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Lublin
of 21 October 2020 (II SA/Lu 782/19, LEX no. 3088379) Cover Image

Glosa do wyroku Wojewódzkiego Sądu Administracyjnego w Lublinie z dnia 21 października 2020 r. (II SA/Lu 782/19, LEX nr 3088379)
Commentary on the Judgement of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Lublin of 21 October 2020 (II SA/Lu 782/19, LEX no. 3088379)

Author(s): Paulina Nagajek
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Water Law Act; amount of a variable fee; principle of objective truth; means of evidence

Summary/Abstract: The commented judgement of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Lublin concerns the manner of determining the amount of a variable fee for discharging rainwater and snowmelt intowaters. In this context, two elements of the ruling deserve attention and comment: 1) the manner ofdetermining the amount of the fee resulting from the provisions of substantive law; 2) the manner of establishing the factual circumstances necessary to issue a decision on the fee in reference to the principle of objective truth resulting from Article 7 of the Code of Administrative Procedure. The vote interpreted the substantive law, i.e. Article 272 (5) of the Water Law Act, which stated thatthe same manner of calculating the fixed fee and the variable fee could not be used, since by the will of the legislator these are two different, in essence, components of the general fee, and the key component determining their amount is completely different. Reference was also made to the partof the justification of the assessed judgement in which the Court stated the necessity to supplement the evidence proceedings and refer to the means of evidence referred to in Article 75 (1) of the Codeof Administrative Procedure, including first and foremost the evidence from the meteorological data obtained from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.

  • Issue Year: 68/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 173-186
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish