ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL MECHANISMS FOR ENSURING OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY IN THE ENERGY SECTOR OF UKRAINE

Abstract

In the article current legal issues of ensuring environmental safety in the Ukrainian energy sector of the economy in the context of ensuring sustainable ecologically balanced development and creating a safe energy future is examined. The purpose of the article is a comprehensive scientific study of the development and implementation of legal mechanisms for balancing energy and environmental policy. It is emphasized that the interaction of these two political spheres can have both positive and negative consequences, and their interrelationship can determine the sustainability and efficiency of energy systems, as well as provide a balanced approach to environmental protection. Based on the analysis of legal norms, there are emphasized the partial correlation and synchronization of energy and environmental policy, taking into account the requirements for ensuring the ecological safety of the environment and people in the functioning of the electric energy market and relations related to the production, transmission and supply of such energy. Ensuring environmental safety during the construction, commissioning and direct operation of energy facilities should be aimed at effective protection against pollution and deterioration of land and water resources, subsoil, biodiversity, implementation of legal measures in the field of waste management, which, in turn, conditions the implementation of effective legal mechanisms for such balancing. That is why the article reveals the legal basis of such measures as: land use planning and zoning of land in the energy sector, establishment of waste management rules, protection of water resources, which involves the establishment of rules and requirements for the protection of water resources from pollution as a result of energy activities, measures of preserving biodiversity, carrying out an environmental impact assessment. Special attention is paid to the intensification of the transition to the use of renewable energy sources and the abandonment of the use of traditional types of fossil fuels, as well as the introduction of innovative technologies, the introduction of state incentives and improvement of the investment climate in the energy sector.