Legal structures of the institute of administrative liability for environmental offenses: problems and prospects of development

The article analyzes the essence of environmental offenses, including administrative offenses in the field of ecology; reveals the types, as well as the substantive features of administrative environmental offenses, outlines areas for improving mechanisms for identifying environmental risks and their institutionalization as torts at the level of legislation on administrative responsibility.

The object of this research is the social relations that develop in the field of implementing the mechanism for applying administrative penalties for committing administrative offenses that infringe on public order in the field of ecology and the environment. The subject of the research is the legal structures of legal norms, the principles and mechanisms of legal support for administrative and tort policy, and administrative practice in the field of environmental protection and ecological safety.

The research is based on the analytical method, which allows us to study approaches to implementing strategic directions of state policy aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the organizational, legal, administrative, and jurisdictional mechanism for environmental protection. The formal legal method helps to identify systemic and structural connections, legal and technical features of the legal regulation mechanism, as well as problems in its functioning and law enforcement practices in the field of public relations in Russia. The empirical basis of the study is based on regulatory legal acts of Russian legislation, administrative practice, doctrinal positions and applied provisions (conclusions) stated in scientific publications. Among the information sources were used statistical materials, reports of national authorities, as well as analytical reports, monographs, scientific articles concerning the issues of development of the institution of environmental administrative liability.

Main results. Environmental protection and ensuring human ecological well-being is an important area of public policy that requires the use of a wide range of tools, including organizational, legal and regulatory ones. The institute of legal and, above all, administrative responsibility is one of the mechanisms for countering potential threats and risks of causing damage to the environment and the environment. The institute of administrative responsibility for environmental offenses is characterized, the role of administrative responsibility in the implementation of state environmental policy aimed at minimizing (reducing) environmental risks is outlined. Modern regulatory, technical and enforcement problems of administrative legislation in the framework of countering the commission of environmental offenses, are separately investigated, promising areas of administrative and legal influence in terms of establishing administrative responsibility in certain areas of environmental relations are identified.

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