The ongoing Paks II investment in Hungary means a significant use of environment. Water is one of the components of the environment affected by this investment. For this reason, it is topical to examine certain rules of the Water Framework Directive in connection with this topic. Probably, the investment may have serious impacts on water of the Danube, since according to the plans it will be used to the refrigeration of the new blocks. According to this, the study examines a concrete provision of the abovementioned directive, the fulfilment of the obligation on achieving good state of surface and groundwater. This study based on the first and second instance environmental permits-after the analysation of these documents, it can be concluded, that the investment will not endanger the abovementioned provision on quality of water in case of proper implementation of the plans. Beside examination of the related legal provisions, method of historical analysation is also used in this study.
SUPPORTED THROUGH THE NEW NATIONAL EXCELLENCE PROGRAM OF THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN CAPACITIES. 1 Áder János: A környezeti fenntarthatóság kihívásai és azok társadalmi, gazdasági összefüggései, titled presentation, University of Miskolc, 07.12.2016. 2 On behalf of the realization of this, the most important step in the recent time was the Climate Summit in Paris, on which a climate agreement was also created, which agreement entered into force on 4th November 2016. In this agreement several objectives were settled-among these one of the most important ones is that the accessed Member States try to maintain the warm of the Earth under 2 degrees Celsius, and they make further steps towards the reduction of the warm into 1,5 degrees Celsius. See more details in connection with this: Mától él a Párizsi Klímamegállapodás-a tét a Föld jövője, Greenfo, in:
** This study has been written as part of the Ministry of Justice programme aiming to raise the standard of law education. 1 In connection with interpretation of the Fundamental Law-especially related to meaning of the `nation's common heritage´ phrase-explanation of János Ede Szilágyi is relevant from the topic of this study as well:
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