SOME LEGAL MEANS OF COMBATING ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME

Abstract

The article examines certain issues related to the regulation by criminal law
of liability for environmental offenses as one of the directions in combating
environmental crime during and after the war. It is argued that one of the
priorities for post-war ecological recovery in Ukraine should be the development
of a new system of environmental protection and management of natural
resource.
In the context of ensuring special protection of natural areas that have been
damaged as a result of hostilities, terrorist acts, and sabotage caused by the armed
aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the author substantiates
proposals for differentiating criminal liability for certain types of environmental
crimes by strengthening liability for acts committed in areas of an environmental
emergency.
The author emphasizes that it is expedient to consider foreign experience in
the application of incentive criminal law norms in the area under study, which may have potential in the context of the elimination of the consequences of
certain types of environmental crimes, in particular, the restoration of the
disturbed natural state of an environmental object and its return to its original
(pre-crime) condition.