Legal support of environmental protection in the Arctic region

The relevance of creating at the present stage of development of the state, the legal framework for consolidating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, including the Arctic territories belonging to international law and the need to save the generations of Russian settlers and researchers of historical heritage left in the development and consolidation of their sovereignty in the Arctic, is substantiated. territories.The analysis of the peculiarities of the historical stages of the consolidation of the Arctic territories of interest at all times, both domestic and foreign researchers, is presented, since the Arctic is a place of concentration of geopolitical, military, political, trade, economic, environmental and legal interests. In the international context, the problems of the interest of states in the use of the Arctic spaces, due to the geographical and geological position of the Arctic, by their enormous volumes of natural resources, which are a determining factor in the struggle for the Arctic territories, are investigated. The author substantiates the importance of legal consolidation of spheres of influence in the Arctic zone in order to effectively use and distribute natural resources by the states of the Arctic region. The strategic importance of the Arctic zone for our country is analyzed, since the Russian Federation has direct access to the Arctic Ocean, ensures the safety of the use of the Northern Sea Route and the protection of territories belonging to Russia within the state borders. A legal analysis is presented of the regulation of the procedure for securing the use of resources in the Arctic space, which currently does not consistently and comprehensively cover all aspects of the regulation of economic activity and other relations in the Arctic space under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis, recommendations and organizational and legal mechanisms for creating an integrated regulatory framework aimed at regulating legal relations and developing the Arctic zone of Russia are presented.

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About the systematization of legal regulation of the Arctic space

Weshkelskij

Gogoleva

Dolgopolova

et al. 2020

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Despite the existence of a developed regulatory framework that enshrines the legal status of the Arctic spaces in the Russian Federation and other Arctic countries, the law enforcement practices of states, there are a number of problems that appear in the process of exercising the rights to research and use natural resources and recognizing state sovereignty on land and water space, including ice, in the Arctic space. One of the factors creating, including changes in living space for the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples of the Arctics region, is the interest of companies and the state in the development of Arctics resources.The combination of conditions such as an increase in the geopolitical and economic interests of states in the development of the Arctics resources, the presence of problems of increasing ensuring the sustainable development of the Arctics region leads to the need to develop a unified systemic codified act fixing the mechanisms for exercising rights to use the Arctics territories and assigning responsibility to the state and its structures to ensure preservation of the natural uniqueness of the region. Harmonized legal regulation is based, in particular, on the propositions of the UN Convention on the law of the sea of 1982 [1], including judicial practice and laws of the Arctic countries, as well as international and national laws on representatives of indigenous peoples of the Arctic [2], [3]. Arctic States have a special responsibility, including for ensuring the rights of indigenous peoples of the Arctics territories [4]. The development of Arctics area resources by resource-producing companies, on the one hand, is a factor that develops the economy of regions with a small population density and a small infrastructure, and on the other hand, creates threats to the unique ecosystem and, accordingly, affects the life and traditional way of managing the indigenous Arctics population. In a single balanced legal act, the rights of indigenous peoples of the Arctics should be given considerable attention. The need to secure political, economic and social rights, balance the interests of the state, the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, and effective economic activity of the Federal subjects and local self-government bodies, and production resource companies requires the development of a unified coordinated approach to the legal regulation of relations in the Arctics space.

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Legal support of environmental protection in the Arctic region

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