The System of Legal Responsibility in the Environment Protection Area

Tetiana Sukhorebra1, Mariana Kravchuk2, Valentyna Kravchuk3, Solomiia Beska4 & Rostyslav Lukashov5

Abstract
The problem of environmental protection and responsibility for environmental legislation violations is extremely important under conditions of war in Ukraine and the increased risk of committing environmental crimes on its territory. The purpose was to clarify the main aspects of the legal regulation of environmental relations in Ukraine and in European countries. The main result was the identification of signs of responsibility of individuals and legal entities in
the framework of environmental relations, the analysis of the main regulatory legal acts regulating these social relations, the clarification of the distinctive and similar features of responsibility for violations of environmental legislation in Ukraine and in European countries, in particular in France, Denmark and Germany. A number of environmental initiatives aimed at improving the environmental conditions and the regulatory provision within the limits of social relations, etc., have been distinguished.

Keywords: Ecocide, Information Security, Environmental Crimes, Environmental Legislation, European Environmental Initiatives.