The subject of the article is the issue of the establishment, legal nature, organizational structure and competences of specialized bodies under the name of environmental protection inspections or environmental inspections in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. A look at the competences of these bodies covers not only the legal acts establishing them, but also selected legal acts constituting the core of the environmental law of these three countries: the basic acts on environmental protection, the act on waste and the act on nature protectio