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Natural resources (water, earth, forests, minerals etc.) are subject to regulations and legal protection within the environment protection legal system. The agricultural and forest lands constitute such a resource. Its protection is governed by the Act on protection of agricultural and forest lands. In accordance therewith, mainly the productive capacity of these lands is subject to protection. On the other hand, the Act on protection of the environment covers the protection of natural resources of each kind, although characterised by particular and distinguishing environmental and landscape values. Therefore, it constitutes a particular regulation that, apart from implementation of protective objectives set forth therein (e.g. protection of biodiversity or landscape), has a significant influence on protection of, among others, agricultural and forest lands. Therefore, this Act constitutes a particular example of regulation justifying the legislator’s intervention in the individual rights protected by the Constitution. Despite that, both the legislator and the administrative courts seem not to see this fact, since the Act on protection of the lands sometimes provides for a more extensive intervention in these rights, which seems to raise fewer doubts in the jurisprudence of these courts.