| Abstract [eng] |
The relationship between the environment and society, are regulated by ecological demands entrenched in the ecological rules of law, with the view to ensure the birthright to live in clean and healthy environment. The breach of ecological demand, which is established with the aim to avoid the environmental pollution is the basis to apply the institute of legal liability. According to the nature and level of risk of violation, administrative, punitive and civil measures can be applied to the polluter. Commonly used is an administrative liability, meanwhile the punitive measures for environmental pollution, despite the theoretical regulation, practically has no affect. Whereas nearly every violation of environmental pollution causes the damage or the danger of damage to the environment, the remedies of civil law are also applied to the polluter, which are dedicated to compensate damage, caused by the violation. So the aim of the article is to analyse the main features of administrative liability – as mostly used type of liability, also to discuss the main points of legal regulation of penal and civil liability and to uncover the main problems of the regulation and its applications. Since the institute of liability for environmental pollution violations during last free years in Lithuania was widely modified on purpose to enforce the environmental requirements of European Union, the attention in the article also will be pied to the main transformations and its practical realisation. |
