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Dr hab. Adam Habuda
ORCID: 0000-0002-7306-6217

Professor at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Judge of the Provincial Administrative Court in Wroclaw. His research interests include administrative law, in particular environmental protection law. The doctorate in administrative law (2003, University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics) concerned limits of administrative discretion, while the habilitation certificate (2014, Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences) was devoted to the legal status of areas Natura 2000. Head of the Environmental Protection Law Department INP PAN, he also serves as deputy chairman of the Scientific Council of the INP. He is a member of the State Nature Conservation Council.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2024.11.5
JEL: K23, K39, K40

The expiry of the permit of the provincial conservator of monuments affects the investment process, which is conditioned by the need to obtain such a permit. Administrative bodies and administrative courts treat the expiry of the permit validity period as a circumstance determining the correctness of the investment process. The article is devoted to the relations between the act on the protection and care of monuments and the implementing act. The author puts forward the thesis that the executive legislator incorrectly exercised the statutory delegation by ordering to specify the validity period in the conservation permit. Such a situation violates the constitutional principle of the rule of law and constitutes an incorrect execution of the statutory delegation, also regulated by the constitution. Since courts, including administrative courts, are subject only to the Constitution and acts, such a situation opens up for them the competence to disregard a defectively issued implementing act. Considering the validity period of a conservation permit as a binding determinant of a construction permit also raises doubts from the perspective of a preliminary issue.

Keywords: legal protection of monuments; conservation permit; building permit; validity period of the decision; statutory delegation