scholarly journals Životna sredina - opasnosti i pravna zaštita / Human Environment ‒ Risks and Legal Protection

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Ilija Babić
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Ozone Layer ◽  
Montreal Protocol ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Environment

The most relevant factors that affect climate are astronomic cycles ant their effects on planet Earth and Earth’s orbit around the Sun. They have impact on the occurrence of glacial and interglacial periods at generally 100.000-year frequencies, which were affected by orbital shape variations and effects of greenhouse gases.The youngest geological epoch of the geological history of Earth is Holocene (started with warming) that began approximately 11.000 years BP. In that epoch, the shape of Earth’s orbit around the Sun was nearly circular, close to a perfect circle, and the seasonal contrast was less severe, due to decreased tilt of Earth’s axis from the plane of its orbit around the Sun. However, most scientists are arguing that the causes of rapid climate change are rooted in human activity, and not in its internal orbital variations. The main causes of global warming are increased level of carbon dioxide, but also of methane and chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere. These gases are responsible for the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion in stratosphere and rapid global warming. In order to set up the legal framework of environmental protection, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment has adopted Stockholm Declaration in June 16, 1972. About twenty industrial states have ratified in 1987 the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has undergone many revisions by London Convention (1990), Copenhagen Accord (1992), Vienna Convention (1995), Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement ‒ an international universal agreement on climate adopted at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21). Environmental protection in the European Union is provided for by its primary and secondary law, and the most EU environmental regulations were implemented in the Serbian legislation.

Compliance Procedures

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Klabbers
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Ozone Layer ◽  
Montreal Protocol ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Agreement ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Number Of Parties

The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer was among the first international agreements in which a specific non-compliance procedure was envisaged, and it is generally held to be the most developed example to date. Non-compliance procedures have become rather prevalent in international environmental law. Allowing for variations across regimes, most mechanisms have at least one compliance committee, usually composed of representatives of a limited number of parties (eight to fifteen) to the underlying multilateral environmental agreement and reporting back to the plenary body set up by that agreement (often dubbed the conference of the parties or meeting of the parties). Compliance (or non-compliance) procedures are usually said to exist, and be necessary, in international environmental protection because the environment cannot, for a number of reasons, be entrusted to the workings of traditional international law.

scholarly journals Judicial Review in Date Protection Cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Comparative Jurisdictions

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-206
Author(s):  
Armina Čunjalo ◽  
Zlatan Omerspahić
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Review ◽  
Current System ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Judicial Protection

The paper analyses the issue of judicial review in personal data protection proceedings. The subject of analyses is a procedural safeguard and other peculiarities of the administrative dispute and the standard of administrative law protection in the mentioned proceedings and the role of the Court of BiH. A comparative legal analysis of administrative-legal protection in the same disputes within Croatia and Slovenia is conducted, together with the relevant legal framework of the European Union. The comparative legal analysis aims to determine the extent to which the domestic model of administrative-legal protection and legal standards of judicial protection is compatible with the solutions adopted across Europe. It draws attention to problematic and controversial solutions to domestic legislation. In conclusion, the authors propose several regulatory solutions which would bring improvements to the current system of judicial protection in domestic law.

scholarly journals Environmental Inspections and the EU: Securing an Effective Role for a Supranational Union Legal Framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hedemann-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Member State ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Field ◽  
The Future ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Legislative Measures ◽  
The Eu

AbstractOver several years, the European Union (EU) has gradually developed its legal framework to assist in the proper application of EU environmental protection rules, both at Member State as well as at EU institutional levels. This article focuses on one particular and relatively recent emerging element of that supranational framework, namely the range of EU secondary legislative measures and provisions concerning the management of environmental inspections. In addition to appraising the extent of EU legislative engagement in relation to environmental inspections, this article reflects on certain challenges of a constitutional nature that the EU will need to address in the future if its intervention in this particular policy field is to continue to develop.

scholarly journals Ensuring State-Legal Regulation On The Prevention of Agrarian Raids as a Form of Counteraction to the Offense and as a Mechanism for the Implementation of International Agricultural Cooperation

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Victor Beschastnyi
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Moral Orientation

The tasks of developing international cooperation in the agrarian sphere between Ukraine and the international community, including the European Union, were determined. The existing reasons for the development of small and medium business representatives are analyzed. The updated structure of the object and the subject side - components of agrarian management is determined. The tendency of international development of organic farming is taken into account. The description and practical significance of the appropriateness of securing the terminological understanding of "raider", "peaceful possession of property" with the aim of unification of the norms of the national legislation with the international ones, including the European one, is given. The state-legal regulation on the way of preventing the offense from the standpoint of functioning of state bodies is considered. Due to the comparative method of scientific study, proposals for changes to the current normative and legal framework of Ukraine are determined. There is a distinction and the need to ensure legal protection and protection of the most vulnerable category of subjects. Today, it is the owners of land plots, including owners of land plots (shares), which have been given a land plot for private peasant farming, horticulture, gardening, subsidiary farming. In particular, such protection should be based on positions of economic, social, legal and moral orientation, which defines an integrated and systematic approach. The state authorities should, through their functional duties and through the authority to provide assistance to such economic entities.           Keywords: raiding, peaceful possession of property, agrarian sphere, organic farming, state-legal and state-private mechanism, international agrarian cooperation, agrarian raiding, "weapons" institute

scholarly journals Establishment of international standards in the field of environmental pro- tection and their impact on modern legislation of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 352-356
Author(s):  
Z.S. Brenzovich ◽  
S.A. Onufriy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
International Convention ◽  
The Right

The article examines the formation of international standards in the field of environmental protection, as well as clarifying their impact on modern environmental legislation of Ukraine.  It is established that the issue of the need to protect the environment has been actively discussed at the interna-tional level since the middle of the twentieth century. The first international environmental organization was found-ed in October 1948 in France (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which still operates today.It was found that although international instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms do not contain provisions on environ-mental rights, there is still a human right to a standard of living that supports its health. It is from the standpoint of the right to life, the right to health and the right to information that the ECtHR deals with matters concerning a safe environment for humans.It is substantiated that special international acts in the field of environmental protection began to be adopted in the 70s of the last century (including: Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Discharges and Other Materials, International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, Convention on Transboundary Air Pollution distance, the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer was adopted, the European Charter on Environment and Public Health, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazard-ous Wastes and Their Disposal, the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, etc.).These international acts have influenced the formation of legislation in the field of environmental protection of independent Ukraine, especially on the example of acts adopted in 2017-2020. The proposal of scientists on the need to adopt a new systematized act in Ukraine, in particular the Environmental Code, has been studied.It is substantiated that when reforming the environmental legislation of Ukraine it is necessary to pay special attention to the requirements of the Association Agreement with the EU, namely to implement the provisions of a number of Regulations and directives of the European Union.

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