Protecția mediului în reglementări interne. Principii generale
Protection of the environment as reflected by the domestic legislation. General principles

Summary/Abstract: Starting with a careful analysis of the way the Romanian legislation refers to effective means and measures for the protection of the environment, the author details the environment law as a self-standing discipline with the modern systems of domestic law in various countries, the basic principles of this discipline, carefully examined in correlation with domestic and international regulations. If one principle were considered, for instance the one referring to the global approach, the author asserts that this principle involves a unitary, systematic regulation and approach of the entire topic of the environment, starting with the idea that its protection is a complex issue. Whereas, at the same time, the vast topic of environment protection is closely related to each country’s economic and social development, to a sustainable development, whereby meeting the present needs through exploitation of nature should leave room, by means of a rational policy, for the development of the future generations. The natural conclusion is that harmonization of the domestic legislations of the EU countries is imperatively necessary in order to prevent polluters to take advantage of the legislative differences among the member countries, by means of “effective, proportional and discouraging” sanctions, even penal ones. At the same time, an essential condition in this respect is the change of mentalities. Such a change may be achieved through education, awareness raising programmes to the effect of safeguarding the natural environment. Also, civil societies, in partnership with the local authorities can achieve common objectives, viable in terms of the development of environment policies.

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