Comparative and Legal Analysis of Criminal and Legal Protection of Individual Components of Natural Environment: European Experience

Abstract

The article is dedicated to criminal and legal protection of both the natural environment, and its individual components. This research describes legislation on environmental protection in the most developed European countries such as Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, and also pays attention to international experience. There are laws on criminal responsibility for attacks on objects of natural environment and international acts have been analysed.

Economic security through criminal policies

“…The purely consumeristic attitude towards the components of the environment has led to their partial loss and exacerbated the need to strengthen the accountability for acts committed resulting in the physical destruction of fertile lands, pollution of water resources, mass disappearance of representatives of the animal and plant world, and the emergence of threats to life, the health of people, or the environment (Savchenko et al, 2017). Such threatening consequences are especially terrible for those countries where the agrarian sector occupies a decisive position in the economy.…”

Criminal liability for land damage under the legislation of the cis countries

“…The study of land damage from the standpoint of comparative law is extremely important and relevant (FATKULIN, 2006;SAVCHENKO et al, 2017), it allows learning from positive experience. Much attention is paid in the legal literature to how the law should apply criminal penalties to prevent environmental pollution (MICHAEL et al, 2004), which is certainly important now.…”