About the legal regime of coastal territories

Abstract

In the article the legal regime of coastal territories — territories adjacent to water bodies, the use of which directly affects the state of water bodies and / or is associated with the use of the water bodies themselves is analysed. The public importance of coastal territories is shown, the factors that determine the content of the legal regime of lands and land plots in coastal territories are highlighted. The features of zoning of coastal territories depending on the goals and objectives of the legal regulation of relations connected with various types of water use and ensuring public interests are considered. The cross-cutting nature of the legal regulation of the use and protection of lands and land plots in the coastal territories is shown, the actual problems of establishing and implementing their legal regime are identified. Particular attention is paid to the legal regime of the foreshore, as well as changes in the sanitary and epidemiological legislation in terms of legal protection of water bodies that are sources of drinking water supply.Trends in water, transport, environmental, sanitary-epidemiological and other related branches of legislation that establish requirements for the use of coastal territories are analyzed. Based on the analysis of the current legislation and materials of judicial practice, conclusions about the need to improve the legal regulation of the use and protection of coastal territories by specification of the existing legal mechanisms and harmonizing water and related legislation were drawn.