Priority Provision of Public Environmental Interests as a Constitutional Principle of Environmental Protection and Nature Management

The Constitution of the Russian Federation determined the goals and objectives of the state policy in the field of environmental protection and nature management, designed to ensure an ecologically safe environment and natural resource potential for the present and future generations of the peoples of Russia, which, in the context of the legal positions developed by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, determines the principle of priority provision of public environmental interests as one of the most important principles of legal regulation of environmental protection and nature management. This principle is considered as the main component of the state environmental policy and the dominant of the environmental development of the Russian Federation, since it is designed to provide the current natural resource needs of socio-economic development and the preservation of natural potential for future generations of Russian citizens and all of humanity. The priority provision of public environmental interests is seen as a guarantee for the protection of legitimate private environmental interests. 

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