Environmental compliance: a place in the legal environmental system

Authors

  • Tamara I. Makarova Institute of Law, South Ural State University, 76 Lenina Avenue, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia; Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0842-900X
  • Valentina V. Kvanina Institute of Law, South Ural State University, 76 Lenina Avenue, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia

Keywords:

environmental compliance, legal environmental protection, ecology, environmental law, environmental legislation, legal mechanism for environmental protection, environmental control

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of the concept «environmental compliance» as an innovative direction of legal science and law of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. The basis of this research is the theory of legal mechanisms for environmental protection and the environmental measures, which are institutions of environmental law. It is concluded that the content of environmental compliance is similar to the function of environmental control, which allows us to determine the legal forms of environmental compliance, and environmental and legal requirements are its legal basis. It is proved that environmental compliance should be considered as an applied tool which is a program that includes the optimal set of environmental measures necessary to implement the environmental policy of a particular business entity.

Author Biographies

  • Tamara I. Makarova, Institute of Law, South Ural State University, 76 Lenina Avenue, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia; Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    doctor of science (law), full professor; senior researcher of the department of business, competition and ecological law, Institute of Law, South Ural State University, and head of the department of environmental and agricultural law, faculty of law, Belarusian State University

  • Valentina V. Kvanina, Institute of Law, South Ural State University, 76 Lenina Avenue, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia

    doctor of science (law), full professor; head of the department of business, competition and ecological law

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Published

2020-05-16

Issue

No. 1 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law

Section

Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law and Agrarian Law

How to Cite

[1]
Makarova, T.I. and Kvanina, V.V. 2020. Environmental compliance: a place in the legal environmental system. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law. 1 (May 2020), 95–101.