Legal Instruments in the Field of Ensuring the Environmental Safety of Transport Activities in the Model Legislation and Acts of States – Participants of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Abstract

The paper examines the essence of legislative support and the main elements of the legal mechanism for environmental protection and environmental safety in the implementation of transport activities in the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The author reflects the different approaches of the member States of the integration association to the regulation of this sphere and the general trends of legislation with a view to identifying legal instruments to reduce the harmful effects of transport on the environment. Purpose: to analyze the model legislation of the Commonwealth of Independent States governing environmental protection and ensuring environmental safety and the acts adopted in the member states of the Commonwealth, taking into account the negative impact of transport activities on environmental protection in the context of the development of integration processes. Methods: the author uses the methods of analysis, comparison, systematization, interpretation of legal norms, formal-logical and prognostic, etc. Results: the tasks of ensuring the environmental safety of transport activities are formulated, which make it possible to demonstrate the need for the establishment of legal regulatory instruments in this area and contributing to their identification. The author concludes that there is a need to develop special documents on cooperation in the environmental safety of the Commonwealth member states, which will make it possible to define general guidelines for the creation and implementation of legal instruments to reduce transport harmful effects on the environment. It is argued that there is a need to bring the legal provisions closer together and to deepen positions on legal support in the area under study, taking into account a number of tasks that lead to integrated approaches.