Environmental Policy of Ukraine in the Field of Water Legal Relations
摘要
The chapter considers political and legal documents of environmental orientation in order to identify the priority goals and objectives of state policy in the field of water resources use, protection, and restoration. These documents recognize the need to implement measures of reducing the deterioration of the ecological state of water resources, ensure their comprehensive and rational use, achieve high ecological standards of water bodies, prevent pollution of surface and underground waters, improve water quality in polluted water bodies objects, restore water ecosystems, expand the state’s participation in international cooperation on improving the ecological state of water objects of Ukraine and the quality of drinking water, etc. Identifying the key directions of state policy regarding the use and protection of water resources of Ukraine is relevant and in demand, because water resources are a strategic and vital natural resource in the system of ensuring sustainable development and national security of Ukraine. Regarding implementation of the directions of the state policy in the specified area, it is significant to improve the water legislation, provide well-managed regulatory legal support for a number of issues that are directly or indirectly related to the use, protection, and restoration of water resources. In particular, the expediency of adopting a new version of the Water Code of Ukraine is noted, due to the fact that the main content of the law has not undergone fundamental changes since its adoption (1995), the regulatory act contains outdated norms, contradictions, etc., which cannot be eliminated by making appropriate changes. It states that by implementing the European law into the national law, Ukraine also focuses on the relevant standards of the water policy of the European Union. However, in order to further harmonize the legislation of Ukraine and the EU in the field of water resources protection and ensuring their quality, it is necessary to develop new normative legal acts and improve existing ones in accordance with the requirements established by European legislation.