Abstract
The main aim of the study is to learn the essence of the legislation on the issue of access
to information on the environment in the context of the existing Act on Access to Public
Information. The right to obtain information on the environment has been extensively
guaranteed both by international regulations as well as by the Polish legislator and the
ordinary legislator. This work is an attempt to show the genesis of the need to separate issues
regarding environmental information from the applicable regulations on public information
and to establish a detailed legal act for them.
In the above context, the paper presents an analysis of the sources of international, EU and
Polish law. The issues related to information on the environment in law have a multifaceted
dimension. In the Polish legal system the matter of access to information on the environment
is regulated in the broadest way by the Act on Access to Information on the Environment (EIA
act) . In this work, research will be conducted on this EIA act.