Supreme Chamber of Control will inspect wind farms

Representative of Wroclaw Regional Office of Supreme Chamber of Control has announced that inspectors will commence control in the scope of complying during the location and construction of wind farms with the legal regulations, environmental protection rules and applicable restrictions concerning nuisances for local residents in a given area.

This control will cover 65 entities within 10 provinces: the Lower Silesian Province, the Lubuskie Province, the Łódź Province, the Mazowieckie Province, the Podlaskie Province, the Pomeranian Province, the Silesian Province, the Wielkopolskie Province and the West Pomeranian Province.

The subject of the control will be in particular the procedures conducted during the adoption of planning documents by the municipalities and the issuance of administrative decisions concerning the construction of wind farms by the commune head, starost and building inspectors.

Supreme Chamber of Control will also control the extent to which local authorities provided participation of local community, which is required by law, in administrative proceedings relating to the issuance of a decisions concerning the construction of wind farms.