Abstract:

The paper presents issue of some legal aspects of nature conservation as expression of the protection of rural areas in Poland. The directions of development of such areas in the European Union countries were described in the Cork Declaration adopted in 1996. Nowadays, the EU operates within the framework of uniform legal regulations, and is obliged to implement the provisions of the new CAP, including the strategy of the program called the Green Deal. In that program for the first time so much attention was paid to the issues of environmental protection and nature conservation. The solution to such problems has been entrusted to farmers and agriculture in general. It may be particularly important for Polish agriculture, as a significant part of biodiversity depends on traditional farming systems. However, at present they are under pressure from either agricultural intensification or land abandonment, which is defined as the disagrarisation process.