The challenge of implementing European Union environmental law in the new member states: The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in the Czech Republic and Poland

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0263774X16686071" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0263774X16686071</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263774X16686071" target="_blank" >10.1177/0263774X16686071</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The challenge of implementing European Union environmental law in the new member states: The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in the Czech Republic and Poland

Original language description

This article examines the problematic implementation of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) in the Czech Republic and Poland from the perspective of the scholarly debate on European Union (EU) and post-accession compliance, focusing on the competing ‘goodness of fit’ and administrative-legal approaches to explaining variations in compliance with EU rules. It finds that administrative shortcomings of various kinds are a major reason for implementation problems in both countries, and that problems have also stemmed from the multilevel nature of the implementation process, which places a heavy administrative and financial burden on municipalities, and requires cooperation between national and local government authorities. In the Czech case, however, the ‘misfit’ between EU standards and contracting and regulatory practices in the Czech water sector has also undermined UWWTD compliance, through its negative impact on the country&apos;s ability to access EU funding.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

ISSN

2399-6544

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1117-1135

UT code for WoS article

000408391200010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85028074328