Administrative and legal principles of local self-governments’ activities in ensuring the environmental safety of the state

Abstract

It has been emphasized that local self-governments within their powers should care about this environment state on the appropriate administrative area, which will provide the environmental rights of citizens, there will not be environmental degradation and risks to human health and, therefore, there will be the appropriate level of environmental safety. The author has analyzed the powers of local councils of MPs and their executive committees in the field of environmental protection and environmental safety. Organizational and administrative, supervisory functions of local self-governments in the environmental field have been researched. It has been proved that the main task of local self-governments to ensure environmental safety is guaranteeing the relevant administrative and territorial unit of the environmental state within their own competence and within the interests of the people, when one should warn the environmental degradation and risks to human health.

It has been concluded that the structure, legal status and powers of local self-governments in ensuring environmental protection and implementing other measures in the environmental area suggest the presence of an appropriate administrative and legal mechanism for the implementation of such activities. This is due, on the one hand, to the fact that local self-governments make decisions on environmental security of the appropriate administrative entity (representative authorities), and on the other – they must ensure their proper accomplishment of (executive authorities). It has been established that all three methods of administrative and legal regulation – permission, order and prohibition are used in the system of regulation of local self-governments’ activities to ensure environmental safety.