Legal regulation of access to public information on the state of use of natural resources

Abstract

The urgency of this article is to conduct a thorough analysis of the legal regulation of the right to receive public information about the state of use of natural resources in Ukraine, as well as to determine the peculiarities of access to such in-formation. The purpose of this article is to study the peculiarities of legal regulation of access and to receive information about the sustainable use of natural resources in Ukraine. Among the methods by which the study of this topic was con-ducted, one can distinguish: dialectical method, formalization method, legal method, formal-legal method, hermeneutical method, logical-legal method, sys-tematic, structural-functional method, axiomatical method, methods of induction and deduction, method of analysis and synthesis, etc. In the process of research the basic concepts, terms and phenomena, which are applied in the course of the given research, definition of the normative-legal base, which regulates the recep-tion of public information about the sustainable use of natural resources by the population, analysis of peculiarities of access to public information about the state of use of natural resources, were given; analysis of experience of regulation of the right to receive public information on the state of environment and use of natural resources in foreign countries and introduction of such experience in Ukrainian leg-islation. In the course of the research, author's definitions were formed, in particular, there are "public information", "environmental information", "right to access to public information about the use of natural resources", etc. The regulatory and legal framework for the regulation of access to public information was studied and the peculiarities of obtaining information about the state of use of natural re-sources in Ukraine were analysed; international experience of regulation of the rights of the population to receive public information has been studied. Forecasting the further development of the legal regulation of access to public information on the state of use of natural resources in Ukraine, it should be noted that the most expedient and effective way is to take into account the experience of regulation of this sphere in foreign countries. The practical significance of the research lies in de-veloping a strategy for improving the legal regulation of access to public infor-mation in Ukraine based on the obtained research results, in particular the use of experience of regulating access to public information in foreign countries.