Specialized Prosecutor's Offices of Kuzbass in Regional Coal Mining and Environmental Safety Protection

Abstract

The increasing role of specialized prosecutor's offices on supervision of ecological and industrial (coal-mining) safety is considered in the article. The President of the Russian Federation approved a number of standards and legal documents confirming that the environmental problem had become a threat for national security of the state and society. Statistical data on inter-regional nature protection by prosecutor's office and prosecutor's office on supervision of obeying the laws in the coalmining industry are provided in the article. Specialized prosecutor's offices of the Kemerovo region actively participate in protection of the ecological rights and freedoms of citizens and the rights of employees of the coalmining enterprises for work in the conditions meeting the requirements of industrial safety. Special attention is paid to the supervision in the sphere of water, atmospheric air, forest exploitation, industrial and consumption waste legislations.