Stan wykorzystania infrastruktury ochrony środowiska oraz nakłady na środki trwałe ochrony środowiska na wsi

At least two- or three-fold higher outlays on environmental protection are needed to ensure timely execution of Poland’s EU accession obligations as well as adequate implementation of the national environmental policy priorities. A major problem is the large discrepancy between urban and rural Poland in the volume of investment means allocated to the protection and conservation of nature and in the access to the environmental protection infrastructure. Our analysis of statistical data enable us to conclude since 2004 increasingly more people in rural communes and in the whole country have been using both the linear infrastructure and point constructions designed to protect the environment. However, the percentage of rural residents with access to such infrastructure is much smaller than in the total Polish population. It has also been noticed that investment outlays on fixed assets in the analyzed investment vectors, both in rural communes and countrywide, have been increasing. Nonetheless, there is a noticeable difference in the volume of investment outlays in rural communes versus the whole country, to the disadvantage of the former.