Summary:

The characteristic feature of the transmission infrastructure is its course over numerous properties of diversified protection status (arable lands, forest lands, Natura 2000 sites, national and landscape parks, historical areas, urban areas, areas threatened by floods). Considering this, as well as the fact that in Poland arable and forest lands cover about 91% of the entire country, and the Natura 2000 network covers about 20% of lands, it should be stated that the level of impacts of transmission installations on the agricultural space is considerably high.
The objective of this paper is to analyse impacts of power lines (of high and very high voltages) on the agricultural space at the stage of investments implementation and exploitation of transmission installations.