whereas the amendments to be introduced in legal provisions will be restricted to the farthest minimum
possible which results from necessity to the transpose the Community law and the need to introduce
changes as indicated in this 2010 NWMP. Significant emphasis will be put on enforcement of legal
provisions concerning waste management, also in the context of the transboundary waste shipments.
Given the fact that directions for change in environmental law are currently determined principally on the
level of the European Union, Poland's active participation in activities as carried out on the European
Union forum, in particular, in the work on new legal acts, has become one of the principal objectives in
the field of waste management. Poland, as the member of the international community, yet before its
accession to the European Union signed the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.
Given the fact that the European Union already ratified this Convention, the target for Poland is to ratify
this Convention by the end of 2007, at the latest