Problems of Legal Regulation of Changes in the Types of Land Plot Permitted Use in the Conditions of Abolition of Land Division into Categories

The article deals with the problems of the Institute of urban planning zoning, including those arising from changes in the types of permitted use of land plots in terms of the possible introduction of territorial zoning instead of dividing land into categories. Despite the fact that the bill on the abolition of land categories was never adopted by the State Duma, nevertheless, the President of the Russian Federation has repeatedly pointed out the need for such a law in his instructions to the Government of the Russian Federation. Due to the fact that according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the current version, the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation are a direct instruction to the Government of the Russian Federation, the author believes that in the near future the issue of the abolition of land categories will become relevant again. However, in order for such a law to be adopted and not cause a serious blow to the system of land turnover, the existing institution of urban zoning must be perfectly verified.

On Prospects of Exercising of the Constitutional Power of the Government of the Russian Federation to Create the Conditions for the Development of a System of Environmental Education and Environmental Culture Fostering

The article states that at the moment in Russia the legal regulation of relations on the formation of environmental education and the upbringing of environmental culture is declarative, fragmented, not ensuring the creation of a system of continuous, systematic and purposeful formation of a respectful attitude to natural resources. The author discusses the prospects for the implementation of the constitutional authority of the Government of the Russian Federation to create conditions for the development of the system of environmental education and the upbringing of environmental culture. This power, along with others, was introduced into the Constitution of the Russian Federation by the Law of the Russian Federation on an amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation of March 14, 2020 N 1-FKZ. In the conclusion of the article, it is argued that in order for this power to be implemented, “to move away from declarativeness” and to lead to a qualitative increase in the level of ecological culture of the population, the Government of the Russian Federation needs to develop with the obligatory involvement of the scientific and environmental education community and adopt the concept of environmental education, which assumes continuous, systematic and purposeful formation of a respectful attitude towards nature, and, on its basis, to propose a system of legal, financial and organizational and technical forms that provide executive and administrative activities not only to create conditions for the development of environmental education and the upbringing of environmental culture, but also their real implementation for the purpose of environmentally safe sustainable development of Russia and the entire world community.

Issues of the Development of Environmental and Natural Resource Laws of the Russian Federation in View of Modernization of Functioning of Public Government

Based on the analysis of the norms of the Russian Constitution in the context of the 2020 amendments aimed at modernizing the functioning of public authorities, the article considers topical issues of the development of constitutional principles of environmental protection and nature management in the light of problems of ensuring environmental safety and environmental well-being of Russian citizens; the article considers promising areas of legal support for environmentally sustainable development, one of which should be the consolidation of the responsibility of the Government of the Russian Federation to ensure effective activities in the field of environmental protection and nature management, which will contribute to the achievement of the national goals of environmental development.

Legal Issues of Tax Incentives as Areas of the Economic Regulation of Environmental Protection

The article explores the possibilities of tax and legal incentives for solving environmental problems. The effectiveness of the existing environmental incentive tax legislation is examined.

The Peculiarities of the Permitting Land Regulation Legal Regime

At the present stage of the land law development, issues concerning the type of legal regulation of land relations, the structure of its method, the ratio of the implemented methods of legal influence, despite their theoretical conservatism, are of particular importance and predetermine further trends in improving its standards. The article defines the peculiarities of the ratio of the main methods of legal influence (permissions and prohibitions) with a permissive type of regulation of land relations, as well as its influence on the process of internal differentiation of the land law standards. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the constitutional basis of the considered type of legal regulation and the peculiarities of the legislative objectification of prohibitions and permissions in regulatory legal acts that are the sources of the land law. We substantiate the conclusion that land legislation, as a form of objectification of permissions and prohibitions, at the present stage of its development is a system of regulatory legal acts of the transitional period, which requires the development of a conceptual framework based on a systematic approach to determining the content of land law institutions. It is proposed to consider a specific method of legal impact, implemented at various levels of standard regulation, as one of the criteria for segregation of a separate group of the land law standards into a legal institution.

Irrational Ecology: A Legal Aspect

The article reviews the legal issues of the efficiency of protection of the ozone layer of the atmosphere and the environment in general in relation to the state regulation of circulation of ozone depleting substances, namely: chlorine and chlorine containing substances having been successfully used for disinfection for several centuries; in view of the flu epidemics and the COVID-19 pandemic, the author brings forward a version that they are caused by the irrational legal regulation of environmental protection and raises the issue of the need to change the environmental protection vector in international and national laws.

Legal Issues of the Establishment (Redetermination) of the Coastline Location and the Economic Use of Surface Water Bodies

Legal protection of water bodies and ensuring a special regime of economic and other activities within the boundaries of their water protection zones presuppose a clear establishment of their coastline and entering information about it in the relevant state registers. The author studies the legal problems of revising the boundaries of water bodies associated with seasonal and long-term climatic fluctuations in the area of their water mirror. The author also suggested adding methods for economic use of surface water bodies.

The History of the Establishment of the Legal Regime of Forest Fund Lands as a Separate Category

The article reviews the main historical steps of the origination of the forest fund land category as an independent land category and the establishment of its legal regime. The author identifies the reasons for the appearance of some peculiarities of the legal regime of lands of this category based on an analysis of legal acts of the Soviet period: forms of ownership of forest fund lands, grounds for restricted circulation of such lands, grounds for the use of forest fund lands, management of their use and protection. The paper establishes historical prerequisites for the interrelation between the legal regulation of the use and protection of forest fund lands and forests growing on such lands in the applicable laws.

The Constitutional Right of Russian Citizens to Reliable Information on the State of the Environment: Modern Issues of Realization and Protection

This article discusses the problems of implementation and protection of the constitutional right to reliable information about the state of the environment, describes the development of this right both in Russia and in other countries of the world. In addition the article gives the author’s definition of the concept of the constitutional right to reliable information about the state of the environment. The paper uses a number of methods of scientific research: analysis; synthesis; comparative-legal; historical; formal-logical.

On the Land Law Subject

The article defines the concept of land relations, as well as their relationship with property and administrative relations.