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ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL SUPPORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AS A CONDITION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARCTIC REGION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Elena V. Vorontsova

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the legal framework of the Russian state, designed to ensure the sustainable development of the Arctic territories. According to the authors of this article, the desire to ensure the sustainable development of the Arctic zone was the basis for the adoption of a number of important strategic documents containing the requirements of environmental safety in the implementation of economic activities in the Russian Arctic. At the same time, the authors note the weaknesses in management in the environmental (nature protection) sphere, as well as the imperfection of the Russian environmental legislation, which does not take into account the natural and climatic features of the Arctic zone and the vulnerability of the Arctic ecological systems to anthropogenic impact. According to the authors, the management system in the Arctic zone should be ecologically oriented and take into account the specific features of these territories. Only such an approach can ensure the sustainable development of the Arctic region, and accordingly the Russian Federation as a whole. According to the authors of this article, in order to improve Russian environmental legislation and bring it in line with the program strategic documents on the development of the Arctic, it is necessary to: make changes to the Federal Law ?On Environmental Protection? in terms of establishing special environmental requirements for business entities implemented in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation; change the procedure for reviewing and approving project and business documentation in the course of licensing business activities in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. All projects of economic activities in the Arctic zone should be subject to state environmental impact assessment, for which it is necessary to introduce this provision into the Federal Law "On Environmental Impact Assessment". Special licensing conditions for activities in the Arctic zone should be stipulated in the RF Law ?On Subsoil?. Amend the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, providing for special responsibility of economic entities and officials for causing environmental harm in the Arctic zone.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2019/5.4/s23.072

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