Analysis of international legal and national legal support for the formation of a single environmentally safe space in the EAEU

Abstract

In the twenty-first century, the intensive growth of production and consumption in the world, the increase in anthropogenic pressure on the environment, accompanied by its deterioration, has an impact on the sustainability and consistency of the main areas of interaction between states. The main issue on the agenda for any modern state has become the formation of a security space at the national, regional, and global levels. In these conditions, regional economic integration is associated with problems in the field of nature management and environmental protection, economic development of society, mutual influence of economic, and environmental spheres and is also determined by the state of national and international legislative frameworks of environmental security. The development of the Eurasian economic integration should take into account the provision of environmental safety as a component of improving the quality of life of the population of the member states, sustainable development of the Eurasian Economic Union. The intention to create conditions for solving the tasks of comprehensive modernization and increasing the competitiveness of the economies of the member states of the Union, the functioning of the common market of goods, services, capital, and labor resources in the EAEU space determines the need for unification or harmonization of legal norms within the limits and volumes provided for by regulations of various levels. In this regard, the analysis of the international legal and national legal basis for the formation of environmentally safe space at the EAEU level is becoming particularly relevant. The article discusses the prerequisites for the formation of a single environmentally safe space in the context of regional integration of the member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. The current state and possibilities of improving the international legal national legal support for the formation of the environmental safety space of the EAEU member states are analyzed. To date, international and interstate cooperation at the EAEU level has a legal basis that does not yet provide a unified legal regulation of relations in the environmental sphere and requires further development of the Union’s law and harmonization of acts of national legislation of the participating countries in the field of environmental safety.