Environmental protection in agriculture: prospects for approximation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Eurasian Union

Abstract

In this article the main directions of legal regulation of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources in agrarian relations are investigated. The leading policy documents of the Eurasian Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan, securing the main directions for the development of agriculture, are analyzed, promising areas of convergence of the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Union in the field of rational use of natural resources and environmental protection in the implementation of agricultural activities are identified. The main trends in the improvement of normative legal acts operating in the considered sphere of public relations are revealed on the basis of a comparative legal analysis of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Eurasian Union and some CIS countries (Russia, Ukraine). Proposals have been formulated for the greening of the agrarian legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, taking into account the principle of sustainable development. The necessity of developing and adopting a legislative act (law) regulating the complex of relations in the field of the agro-industrial complex, including environmental protection in agriculture, is substantiated.