Legal Problems of Compensating for Past (Accumulated) Environmental Harm in the Sphere of Subsoil Management

Abstract

Review. The article analyzes effective legislation in the sphere of compensating for the past (accumulated) environmental harm caused by subsoil management. In conclusion the authors reveal the gaps in legal regulation of this sphere, namely, the lack of a fundamental legal act governing the procedure of compensating for the past (accumulated) environmental harm, techniques of identification, assessment, and evaluation of the past environmental harm connected with economic activities of subsoil users, the absence of unified systematic data base on objects/ sources of environmental harm, and on the territories contaminated as a result of economic activities of subsoil users.