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Regulatory principles of public administration in the field of state

and regional environmental policy as part of the strategy for

sustainable development of Ukraine

Anton Borysenko*

Yevgen Volko **

Olena Puskina***

Mykola Potip****

Yulia Leheza*****

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the scientific article is to identify the administrative and legal foundations of public

administration in the field of environmental policy, and to determine the directions of its

development at the present stage. Main content. The authors of the article established that the

principles of public administration in the implementation of state and autonomous environmental

policy must meet the requirements of: accessibility, timeliness and reliability of environmental

information; as well as ensure the accountability of executive bodies and bodies of local self-

government. The research used general and special scientific methods, the main of which are:

abstract-logical, deductive, inductive, historical, modeling and forecasting, systemic-structural,

systemic and functional, economic-statistical (grouping and comparison) methods of analysis. As a

conclusion, the authors argued that the priority areas of public administration reform, in the

implementation of state and regional environmental policy, include the feasibility of creating and

operating a special information service, the content of which is the implementation of human rights

to a safe environment, favorable environment and quality.

KEYWORDS: Environmental Law, environmental policy, national government, public

administration, referral services.

* PhD in Law, first deputy head of the Gubyn village council of the VIII convocation Ukraine.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0911-7665. E-mail: lawyerborisenkoa@gmail.com

** Post Graduate Student of the Department of public administration and customs administration, University

of customs and finance, Ukraine. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6750-8210. Email: evggg.vv@gmail.com

*** Professor, Head of the Department of the Civil, Commercial and Environmental Law, Dnipro University of

Technology, Ukraine. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4524-6210. E-mail: elenapushkina111063@gmail.com

**** Professor, Head of the Department of the Civil, Commercial and Environmental Law, Dnipro University of

Technology, Ukraine. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6861-8251. E-mail: potip87@meta.ua

***** Professor, Head of the Department of the Civil, Commercial and Environmental Law, Dnipro University of

Technology, Ukraine. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4896-3178. E-mail: legezajul@gmail.com

Recibido: 18/05/2022 Aceptado: 06/07/2022

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Principios regulatorios de la administración pública en el campo de

la política ambiental estatal y regional como parte de la estrategia

para el desarrollo sostenible de Ucrania

RESUMEN

El propósito del artículo científico consiste en identificar los fundamentos administrativos y

legales de la administración pública en el campo de la política ambiental, y determinar las

direcciones de su desarrollo en la etapa actual. Contenido principal. Los autores del artículo

establecieron que los principios de la administración pública en la ejecución de la política

ambiental estatal y autonómica deben cumplir con los requisitos de: accesibilidad,

oportunidad y confiabilidad de la información ambiental; así como velar por la rendición de

cuentas de los órganos ejecutivos y de los órganos de autogobierno local. La investigación

utilizó métodos científicos generales y especiales, los principales de los cuales son: abstracto-

lógico, deductivo, inductivo, histórico, modelado y pronóstico, métodos de análisis sistémico-

estructural, sistémico y funcional, económico-estadístico (agrupación y comparación). Como

conclusión, los autores fundamentaron que las áreas prioritarias de la reforma de la

administración pública, en la implementación de la política ambiental estatal y regional,

incluyen la viabilidad de crear y operar un servicio de información especial, cuyo contenido

es la implementación de los Derechos Humanos a un medio ambiente seguro, entorno

favorable y de calidad.

PALABRAS CLAVE: Derecho ambiental, política ambiental, gobierno nacional,

administración pública, servicios de referencia.

Introduction

The development of a modern state is impossible without ensuring the effectiveness

of environmental policy. The implementation of state and environmental policy in Ukraine

should be based on the principles of transformational transition from the policy of extensive

use of natural resources to the policy of introducing renewable development technologies as

an integral element of the Sustainable Development Strategy. Isolation as a separate

component of the Sustainable Development Strategy to ensure the effectiveness of state and

regional environmental policies determines the feasibility of finding ways to form effective

mechanisms of public administration in the use of natural resources, environmental policy

requirements, introduction of alternative energy sources. Despite the extreme importance of

the implementation of state and regional environmental policies, their regulatory

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uncertainty, the lack of implementation strategy is exacerbated by the ongoing state of

Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Public administration in the field of state and regional environmental policy has

repeatedly been the subject of research by representatives of various special and branch

sciences. Quite a lot of attention is paid to the study of the implementation of state and

regional environmental policies in the development of administrative law. It is worth

highlighting the research of such scientists as V.V. Kostytsky (Kostytsky, 2001), Yu.O.

Legeza, O.O. Surilova (Leheza & Surilova, 2019), B.G. Rozovsky (Shemshuchenko, 1978),

Yu.S. Shemshuchenko (Pogorilko, 1973) and others. Representatives of the science of

environmental law, in particular G.I. Balyuk (Balyuk, 2017), A.P. Hetman (Hetman, 2014) and

others. Within the framework of this publication, the attention will be focused on

establishing the essence and legal framework for public administration in the field of state

and regional environmental policy as part of the Sustainable Development Strategy of

Ukraine.

The purpose of the scientific article is to implement the scientific and theoretical

justification of the administrative and legal foundations of public administration in the field

of environmental policy and determine the directions of their development at the present

stage using the obtained scientific results

1. Materials and methods

The research used general scientific and special methods, the main of which are:

abstract-logical, deductive, inductive, historical, modeling and forecasting, methods of

system-structural, systemic and functional analysis, economic-statistical (grouping,

comparison, etc.). The application of methods of systems analysis allowed to structure the

constituent elements of the system of legal framework for public administration in the field

of state and regional environmental policy.

2. Results and discussion

Approval and implementation of a comprehensive unified state environmental policy

in Ukraine takes place at the level of proclamation of targeted programs, strategic

development plans, the priority goals of which include the creation of an effective mechanism

of public administration in the field of environmental protection.

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It should be noted that as of June 1, 2022, there are about 300 targeted state programs

and strategic plans for regional development in Ukraine. It should be noted that a number of

such national strategies have been approved since the 1990s and are still being implemented,

in particular, the Concept of Administrative Reform in Ukraine, adopted in 1998.

Among the national programs aimed at ensuring an effective state environmental

policy are: 1) National program for the formation of the national ecological network of

Ukraine for 2000-2015; 2) National program for biodiversity conservation for 2005-2025; 3)

Program for the use of production and consumption waste for the period up to 2005, which

subsequently led to the adoption of the basic principles of the state system of waste

management as a secondary resource; 4) Strategy of the state ecological policy of Ukraine for

the period till 2030.

The Strategy of State Environmental Policy of Ukraine for the period up to 2030 (Law

of Ukraine, 2019) identifies a number of national and regional issues that need urgent

solution, among which one of the priorities is the need to reform the system of public

administration in the field of environmental protection and regulation use of natural

resources, in particular, inconsistency of actions of central and local executive bodies and

local self-government bodies, unsatisfactory state of the state environmental monitoring

system ”.

The provisions of the Strategy of State Environmental Policy of Ukraine define the

need to integrate environmental policy into sectoral policies, mandatory consideration of the

environmental component in drawing up strategies, plans and programs for Ukraine's

development, implementation of environmental management in enterprises, greening of

economic activity, which is implemented in Eastern, Western and Central Europe. The main

directions became an important political and legal document, which contained the

conceptual principles of environmental policy, which are mandatory for implementation by

the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in three stages.

During the first stage, the urgency of implementing and completing urgent

measures to limit the negative impact on the environment was determined, which include: a)

ensuring the quality of the regulatory framework for environmental protection and

environmental safety requirements; b) revision of approaches to establishing the content and

essence of the environmental protection and economic mechanism (in particular, revision of

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approaches to understanding the procedure for allocating natural resource rents and the

introduction of the economic passport of Ukrainians); c) functioning of a perfect system of

state control over the state of the environment on the basis of objectivity and comprehensive

intersectional environmental monitoring; d) implementation of effective programs of

environmental education, legal education and environmental awareness (Leheza ect., 2020).

In the process of implementing the second phase, designed for 10-15 years, starting in

1998, it was planned to develop and implement comprehensive programs aimed at achieving

a balance between the levels of harmful effects on the environment and its ability to recover.

However, as in the first stage, this goal was not detailed in its main objectives, as they are

aimed at:

a) optimization of the structure of nature management;

b) ecologically oriented structural restructuring of the economy;

c) development and implementation in Ukraine of a system of state environmental

monitoring, creation of a system of analysis of the environmental situation, forecasting,

planning and implementation of precautionary measures against possible factors of harmful

effects (Khilko, 1999).

Priority areas for the implementation of state and regional environmental policy

should include: creating a climate that will reduce risks to human health and well-being, thus

determining the "quality" of the environment; ensuring a balance of private and public

interests that will contribute to the achievement of economic, environmental, social well-

being; introduction of ecological requirements to the processes of state and regional

planning; establishing social partnership and dialogue; elimination of consequences of

natural and man-made emergencies; ensuring environmental safety and maintaining

ecological balance in Ukraine; the effectiveness of the mechanism of legal liability for

violations of environmental legislation; introduction of the principles of prevention

(prevention) and priority of eliminating sources of environmental damage, "the polluter

pays".

The principles of public administration in the implementation of state and regional

environmental policy must meet the requirements of accessibility, timeliness and reliability

of environmental information; as well as ensuring the accountability of executive bodies and

local self-government bodies (Leheza ect., 2018).

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Implementation of public administration in the field of state and regional

environmental policy must meet the requirements of service. The concept of the "service

state" was formed in the 1980s. The modern interpretation of the category "service state" is

due to the need to integrate private and public interests, meet the needs of man and society

(social groups). The implementation of service approaches is obviously possible within the

framework of state and regional environmental policies, the subjects of implementation of

which are the public, international and national public funds, public associations. The

implementation of public administration in the field of state and regional environmental

policy should take place on the basis of decentralization of power, bringing its institutions

closer to the consumer of administrative procedures, where the priority is the proportionality

of management decisions.

Normative principles of public administration in the field of state and regional

environmental policy are determined primarily in accordance with the provisions of the

Aarhus Convention, approved on June 25, 1998, which set priorities for access to information,

public participation in environmental management decisions, access to justice on

environmental issues. The Aarhus Convention, ratified by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,

was detailed in accordance with the provisions of the Association Agreement between

Ukraine and the EU and EU Directive 2003/4 / EU of 28 January 2003 (Law of Ukraine, 1998).

Achieving the implementation of the concept of "service state" as a component of state

and regional environmental policy is associated with the creation of effective mechanisms for

public participation in management decisions, in particular by exercising the right to

participate in strategic environmental assessment and public discussions. Ukraine, 2018).

Forms of implementation of the service-oriented state in the field of environmental policy

are: publication of reports of the central executive body in the field of environmental

protection; responding to public information requests about the state of the environment;

generalization of electronic appeals and their consideration in the planning and

implementation of environmental management policy; organization of public discussions,

including in the form of online surveys, questionnaires, systematization of public opinion

(electronic public consultations and public opinion polls); assessment of harmful effects on

the environment, which has become a substitute for public expertise (Leheza ect., 2021).

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In order to overcome the devastating impact on the environment resulting from the

Russian armed attack, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine acceded to the Convention on the

Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents. Ratification of the Convention on the

Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents will allow Ukraine to become a full

participant in the process of overcoming industrial accidents that may have a transboundary

impact; solve the problems of creating compatible accident alert systems and exchange of

information necessary to counter transboundary impact; provide opportunities to receive

assistance under the Convention to build capacity and share experiences in the prevention,

preparedness and response to accidents; will allow the use of the Convention as an additional

legal mechanism in the event that an accident that occurred in another country has provoked

consequences in our territory (Andreytsev, 2002).

Thus, the normative principles of public administration in the implementation of state

and regional environmental policy are provided by a significant array of laws and regulations

(Leheza ect., 2021).

Agreeing with OA Ulyutina, we believe that the administrative and legal regulation of

relations in the field of state and regional environmental policy can provide a strategy and

tactics for environmental protection, rational use of natural resources and implement the

basic tenets of sustainable development that meets international standards. legal standards

of human-nature relations: "administrative-legal regulation with the help of specially

authorized executive bodies allows to purposefully influence the course of human-nature

relations, stimulating positive trends, providing strategy and tactics of environmental

protection and nature management" (Ulyutina, 2011).

The structure of the public administration system in the field of natural resources use

is characterized by a differentiated approach to its organization. At the same time, ensuring

the strategy of sustainable development and integrated rational use of natural resources

becomes possible only if the interaction and interconnection within the complex branched

system of state executive power and local self-government. Ensuring an integrated approach

to solving the problems of sustainable development and rational use of natural resources is

seen in the reform of the system of public administration, which should take place by

implementing the principle of landscape approach to solving the problem of rational

integrated use of natural resources (Leheza ect., 2021).

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Conclusion

Thus, establishing the effectiveness of public administration in the implementation of

state and regional environmental policy should be based on the priority of public

participation in administrative acts, the effectiveness of information interaction between

society and the state, "digitalization" of public authorities and local governments. In general,

it should be noted that in Ukraine the implementation of public administration functions is

based on the service-oriented functioning of the subjects of power. In particular, such tools

of the service-oriented state can be identified public information resources - "Action",

"Prozorro", "Appeals in the field of state registration of civil status" and others. However, in

the field of environmental protection and implementation of state and regional

environmental policy, such public information services are absent, although they should have

functioned. Public information services in the field of environmental protection are an

effective guarantee of the effectiveness of the constitutional provision on the ownership of

the Ukrainian people for natural resources and the transparency of management decisions

on the use of natural resources and facilities of national and regional importance.

Thus, the priority areas of public administration reform in the implementation of state

and regional environmental policy include the feasibility of creating and operating a special

information service, the content of which is the implementation of human rights to a safe

environment, favorable and "quality" environment.

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