Supervision Mechanism for Environmental Law Enforcement in China

Abstract

Abstract-China's environmental law enforcement is in the perfect order. A special supervision mechanism is developed accordingly. Theory and effect of environmental law enforcement supervision require urgent analysis and reflections. In 2010, Supervision Measures after Administrative Enforcement of Environmental Laws were issued. In 2016, the first Central Environmental Protection Supervision Team was founded, symbolizing the perfecting process of China's environmental law enforcement supervision mechanism. In this study, specific theoretical connotation of China's environmental law enforcement supervision was analyzed. Differences of supervision from monitoring and inspection were illustrated. On this basis, effect and shortcomings of law enforcement supervision were analyzed and corresponding improvement suggestions were proposed, including perfecting the mechanism, reducing rights of regional enforcement supervision and accelerating institutionalization. Finally, it comes to conclusions. It accepts the establishment and development of China's environmental law enforcement supervision system, puts forward countermeasures against shortcomings, and evaluates the environmental law enforcement supervision system comprehensively.

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