Abstract
Legal consequences arising from the existence of safety zones pipelines are faced in practice quite often both investors and experts, owners and users of real property (especially land plots) or potential candidates for their purchase. The fact that real property is encumbered by these zones, implies a whole range of restrictions on their use.
The paper deals with legislation providing for these restrictions, which is in force since 1st January 2016, in particular with issues arising by establishment and cancellation of the safety zones, with possibilities to perform ownership rights in these zones and with relation of the safety zones vis-ávis institutes of private law (in particular easements). The article also points to existing decision making of the courts on these issues.