Features of property liability for environmental offenses

Abstract

One of the main factors of sustainable development is the preservation of the environment and natural resources, which is impossible without a well-functioning system for preventing environmental offenses and eliminating their consequences. In this system, a special place belongs to the institution of responsibility. The work is devoted to the analysis of the features of property liability for environmental offenses, the establishment of its relationship with civil liability. As features of the responsibility under consideration, its “overcompensation nature” is highlighted, as well as the possibility of bringing the offender to “double” responsibility in the form of payment of monetary compensation and compensation for harm in kind. These features are explained by the nature of the benefits encroached upon by an environmental offense, as well as the need to overcome the costs of law enforcement associated with the problems of determining the amount of harm caused to the environment.
The analysis allows us to conclude that property liability for environmental offenses, which has a number of specific features, nevertheless corresponds to the nature and features of civil liability, which allows us to apply to it the principles and mechanisms developed by civil law.