Гуманитарные и юридические исследования (Sep 2021)
INTEGRATION OF LEGAL REGULATION OF RATIONAL USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN THE EAEU LEGISLATION: CURRENT STATE OF THINGS AND PROSPECTS
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the current state of integration and justification of general approaches to the legal regulation of rational use of natural resources and environmental protection in the EAEU legislation. The need to expand integration processes in the post-Soviet areas has led to the formation of several interstate unions and launch of multilateral integration cooperation projects. Until the present time within the common legal framework of the Union, environmental problems have not been placed among the priorities; the main attention is given to the joint development of the economy. However, the assessment of modern development trends and justiication of the ways to overcome key obstacles for creation of the system of normative legal acts regulating environmental protection and rational use of natural resources is determined by the current state of integration of the acting EAEU legislation as the foundation for the interaction of entrepreneurs, countries and their unions on various aspects of environmental protection and use of natural resources. The study of the provisions of the current Treaty on the Establishment of the EAEU and other documents of the Union, dedicated to the regulation of rational use of natural resources and environmental protection, points at a piecemeal approach in the part of consolidation of legal norms concerning environmental issues. Therefore, in the development of integration processes in heterogeneous spheres of public relations, including environmental one, we observe the increase of importance of legal principles as the means helping to reveal the most effective legal regulation and contributing to ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of all participants of the considered relations. The establishment in the EAEU legislation of common approaches to the legal regulation of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources, as well as various aspects of environmental management will contribute to the uniication of national legislation, the application of identical legal mechanisms of impact on environmental relations in the member states of the Union. As a result, it will create conditions for the development of this area of public relations within the boundaries of the common EAEU legal framework.
