ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM OF UKRAINE: ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL ASPECT

Abstract

Introduction. Security issues in general in the modern realities of the development of the world community are on the agenda among the topical issues. Security issues have always been and remain very important, both in its broadest sense and in sector-specific issues.

Summary of the main results of the study. The article analyzes the administrative and legal aspects of understanding environmental security as an integral part of national security. In particular, the article argues that the current legislation forms the basis for understanding environmental security in the national security system as an integral and leading component of the security system. From the author's point of view, this, in turn, significantly affects the understanding of the need to form a holistic mechanism of administrative and legal regulation in the field of ensuring environmental security as a proper basis for the formation of a single security space of the independent Ukrainian state. At the same time, one cannot ignore the specifics of environmental security as a separate and rather specific object of administrative and legal regulation. It is proved that administrative and legal regulation in the field of ensuring environmental security should be carried out in the general paradigm of security regulation. This approach should find its embodiment, in particular, in the correlation of the goal and objectives of administrative and legal regulation in the field of ensuring environmental security with the goal and objectives of the general legal policy of ensuring national security as a whole (ensuring the protection of state sovereignty, territorial integrity, democratic constitutional order and other vital interests of man, society and the state, the implementation of which ensures the state sovereignty of Ukraine, its progressive democratic development, as well as safe living conditions and the well-being of its citizens from real and potential threats). As follows from the provisions of the current legislation and the practice of its application, the environmental component in the system of ensuring national security is quite significant and is interconnected with all the substantive components of the national security and defense of Ukraine. The legislation provides for a variety of acts issued by public authorities and in respect of which, in appropriate cases, specific methods of protecting violated rights in administrative proceedings can be applied. A proper scientifically based classification of methods of protection of violated rights in administrative proceedings can serve as the basis for developing criteria for the application of both those methods of protection provided for by the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine and those not provided for by the Code.

Conclusion. Thus, it can be stated that the current legislation forms the basis for understanding environmental security in the national security system as an integral and leading component of the security system. This, in turn, significantly affects the understanding of the need to form a holistic mechanism of administrative and legal regulation in the field of ensuring environmental security as an appropriate basis for the formation of a single security space. At the same time, one cannot ignore the specifics of environmental security as a separate and rather specific object of administrative and legal regulation. At the same time, as was proven above, administrative and legal regulation should be carried out in the general paradigm of security regulation, which should find its embodiment in the correlation of the goal and objectives of administrative and legal regulation in the field of ensuring environmental security with the goal and objectives facing the general legal policy of ensuring national security as a whole (ensuring the protection of state sovereignty, territorial integrity, democratic constitutional order and other vital interests of man, society and the state, the implementation of which ensures the state sovereignty of Ukraine, its progressive democratic development, as well as safe living conditions and the well-being of its citizens from real and potential threats). As follows from the provisions of the current legislation and the practice of its application, the environmental component in the system of ensuring national security is quite significant and is interconnected with all substantive components of the national security and defense of Ukraine.