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The object of article is the evaluation of formal, legal and practical aspects of functioning of the procedure of strategic evaluation of environmental impact of communal spatial planning acts - studies of land use conditions and directions of the commune as well as local spatial development plans. The work involved the analysis of effective provisions, primarily of the act on the access to information on the environment and its protection as well as on evaluation of environmental impact and of the act on spatial planning and development and the Code of Administrative Proceedings. The consultation obligation with competent authorities within the strategic evaluation of environmental impact results in the first place from Article 9 of the Kiev Protocol to the Espoo Convention and Article 6 of the Directive 2001/42/EC. However, the application of Polish regulations involves numerous interpretation doubts - primarily those resulting from the necessity to use the provisions of different acts. That is why, in the article, the guidelines presented by the doctrine and judicial decisions of administrative courts as regards the application of provisions were pointed out and conclusions were formulated concerning the improvement of procedures of cooperation between competent administration authorities.