Legislative foundations of environmental policy of the state: system, classification and problems of codification

Abstract

This article examines the role and significance of legislative acts to ensure the environmental policy of the state. On the basis of scientific and legal judgments, the following main directions of the state environmental policy are substantiated: environmental protection, rational use of natural resources and ensuring the environmental safety of the population. The author pays special attention to the definition of such concepts as “environmental legislation”, “sources of environmental legislation”, “subject of environmental legislation. The paper analyzes the issues of systematization and classification of environmental legislation based on the specific features of environmental legislation, and also proposes a classification of environmental legal regulations in the field of ensuring the environmental policy of the state. The general and peculiarities of constitutional norms, laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, by-laws of state authorities and management, as well as principles and norms of international law in the field of ecology are analyzed. The role and significance of the codification of environmental legislation is analyzed, and conclusions on the development of the Environmental Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan are formulated.