President signs anti-smog bill

President of Poland Andrzej Duda has signed the so called anti-smog bill, his chancellery informed. The law is expected to curb emission of toxic substances. The bill will allow local governments to implement legal solutions aimed at improving the quality of air and lowering noise pollution. The law is designed to prevent situations like those that happened in the Małopolskie voivodship, where the local parliament in 2013 banned the use of coal and other hazardous fuels in domestic stoves. The decision was later deemed as unconstitutional by Poland's Supreme Administrative Court.

The European Environment Agency said in 2014 that Kraków had the third most polluted air in Europe.