The community and protection of the environment from the legal point of view

The aim of this thesis is to analyse position and possibilities of a municipality in the Czech Republic in the field of environmental protection. The thesis is divided into six basic parts. The Introduction briefly illustrates the importance of municipalities and explains the system of this thesis. Chapter One deals with the environment, especially with its protection under the Czech constitutional law. Municipalities and their bodies are characterised in Chapter Two. The next chapter describes the town and country planning and examples of bylaws issued by a municipality within its separate power in order to protect the environment. Chapter Four introduces the legal instruments which can be used by a municipality in environmental protection within delegated power. In the Conclusion, the author draws attention on several problems connected with participation of municipalities in environmental protection, nevertheless he highlights that municipalities play an unquestionable role in this field