The law-making function of the Prosecutor's office as an effective way to ensure the implementation of the principle of transparency, taking into account public opinion when making environmentally significant decisions

Abstract

The article deals with the implementation of the Prosecutor's office law-making function. In particular, examples of violations identified by prosecutors in the supervision of the implementation of laws on environmental expertise are given, and ways to eliminate the causes and conditions that contribute to such offenses are proposed. The author proposes to improve the regulatory framework of local governments through the development of model acts by the Prosecutor's office, regulating the organisation of public environmental expertise, public discussions, surveys, referendums among the population on the planned economic and other activities, which are subject to environmental expertise. According to the author, only model acts developed by the Prosecutor, taking into account all the provisions of specialised legislation, as well as the emerging judicial practice in the analysed sphere, will allow observing the balance of the interests of society and the state as much as possible, to provide for all possible abuses of rights by interested persons, as well as to prevent in the future the facts of arbitrary interpretation of the legislation.