Legal provision of the state environmental monitoring system in Ukraine in the context of European integration

Abstract

The legal provision of the state environmental monitoring system in Ukraine is developing very dynamically, new legislative acts are being developed and adopted, and a strengthened course has been taken to gradually bring the national regulatory framework in the field of environmental monitoring closer to European approaches.

Despite the high academic interest in the topic of environmental monitoring from various scientific directions, there is still a growing applied need for organizing ecological and legal exploration regarding the state system of environmental monitoring in Ukraine. This will make it possible to assess the readiness of domestic legislation in the field of environmental monitoring to meet today's challenges, foresee further steps, and weigh the likely risks within the framework of its adaptation to the EU acquis. Based on this, the relevance of the proposed topic of the article is justified.

The study examines the development of legal regulation of the state environmental monitoring system in Ukraine in the light of international cooperation and European integration obligations, analyzes its current state and practical tools for implementing the environmental monitoring function in Ukraine, and lays the foundation for ways to further arrangement the relevant legislation.

The purpose of the article is to comprehensively analyze the current legal framework for the state environmental monitoring system in Ukraine and identify vectors for its potential modernization, taking into account EU requirements, in accordance with the Association Agreement.

The author concludes that the state environmental monitoring system in Ukraine requires the development of comprehensive approaches to reform and change. This is justified by a set of interrelated reasons, including: Ukraine's European integration, future challenges of the post-war national environmental policy, the objective need for the state's ability to guarantee the state of environmental safety and create unhindered opportunities for the population to realize environmental rights. And although we have already made some progress, in the direction of the functioning of the state environmental monitoring system, compliance with the EU environmental acquis is currently only partial, which implies further intensive reforms in the coming years.