The formalized and comprehensive strategies of environmental policy have not existed in the Central European countries in communist period of their history. Together with the development of democratic system and free market economy the Central European countries (for the purpose of this article the Central Europe is represented by the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic) started to develop and implement also new strategies of environmental policy. This article sets out to describe the development and current state of the strategies of environmental policy in the selected Central European countries considering also global and Pan-European processes and documents influencing their formulation and implementation (namely the Environmental Action Program for Central and Eastern Europe and 5th Environmental Action Program of EU).