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The following paper is the second part of an article dealing with the mining accident that took place in 2000 in the Romanian town of Baia Mare, which has been described as one of the worst environmental disasters since the Chernobyl accident. The first part focused on the circumstances of the accident, its consequences, and an analysis of the international legal framework in force at the time of the incident. The authors also describe the changes in international law adopted in response to the accident in Baia Mare and analyse the relevant case-law of the ECtHR related to the Baia Mare accident, Tătar v. Romania case. In the second part of the article, the authors discuss the response to the accident at the level of the European Union and the key changes in EU legislation adopted as a result of the accident. The article also points to changes made in national law in the Czech Republic, which directly or indirectly responded to the accident in Baia Mare. In conclusion, the authors relate this mine accident to the accident on the Bečva River that occurred in 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper traces the circumstances of the 2000 mining accident in the Romanian town of Baia Mare, which has been described as one of the worst environmental disasters since Chornobyl. Following this, the authors analyze the international legislation in force at the time of this accident and mention two types of obligations resulting from international treaties in force at the time, to which Romania was also a contracting party. At the turn of the millennium, there was a lack of legislation at the international and European Commission level to regulate this waste management process, making the whole process riskier and, in some cases, was also the reason for mining accidents associated with cyanide leaks into the environment. The authors describe the changes in international law adopted in response to the mining accidents, cite the case-law of the ECtHR related to the Baia Mare accident case (case Tatar v Romania). The authors leave aside the European and Czech aspects of the issue, which they will focus on in a separate article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper describes a water quality incident in a small public water supply in Central Bohemia in the summer of 2017. People living in one part of the village consisting of about 40 recently built family houses experienced a short supply break (due to a blackout) and afterwards they received green-coloured tap water (due to algae) and later repeatedly microbiologically contaminated water (E. coli and coliforms). It might have resulted in about 20 illnesses, but medically confirmed was only one case of a child hospitalized. Water was banned to drink by the Public Health Authority for about a month. The water supply operator could not - in spite of repeated measures (flushing, disinfection) - restore safe water quality, nor to reveal the cause of contamination. An illegal connection between a private well and the public supply was suspected. Within one month they noticed that water contamination is worse after dry and hot days and started a systematic examination of garden irrigation practices in the affected area. Finally it was found that the owner of one house took irrigation water also from the adjacent brook and that his piping was interconnected not only with his private well, but also with the public supply and that the pump used had pressure enough to introduce surface water in to the public water mains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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