Ответственность за нарушение экологического законодательства

Features of Legal Responsibility for Environmental Violations

This article analyzes the issues of liability for violation of environmental legislation. Legal responsibility as used herein should be defined as a complex legal institution of ensure duty to comply relations between society and nature in order to maintain a reasonable combination of environmental and economic interests, as well as to suffer the adverse effects of a rule breaking. Harm inflicted upon the environment is considered as a general concept that includes several elements. The author defines the responsibilities in the field of environmental protection as a complex set of economic and legal nature which combines the duty to prevent and redress the natural environment, thereby providing a stable balance of combination of economic and environmental interests in the economic activity. The article considered corpus delicti in the sphere of violation of environmental legislation enshrined in the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This article analyzed the actual patterns, conditions, which allow drawing the conclusion about complex character of institution responsibility, combined categories of law and economics in the regulation of matters of economic activity.