Summary:

Environmental compensation is a set of actions. These actions should take to restore natural balance on the given area, compensating the damage to the environment through undertaking the action plans and maintaining the landscape amenities (Article 3 of the Environmental Protection Law). They including hydrotechnical constructions, groundworks, soil reclamation, afforestation, tree planting or developing vegetation concentration sites, that are leading. Environmental compensation is highly recommended to repair the harm to the environment especially when realization of an investment disabled the protection of the environmental elements. The required range of environmental compensation is issued by the decision of the environmental conditioning for the investments with the environmental impact assessment already made (Article 75 of the Environmental Protection Low). The paper presents an inventory of the compensation actions that allow for reducing the negative impact of hydrotechnical constructions on the ecosystem of rivers.