Technologies and main modern economic and legal aspects of the formation of state control systems (Supervision) over the use of natural resources

Abstract

The article aims to systemize the economic and legal aspects of forming a modern state system of control (supervision) of the natural resources use. Analysis of the approaches applied in theory and practice for monitoring (supervision) of the use of natural resources has revealed that the development of a comprehensive methodology for the assessment of natural resources, including the comparison (analogy), regulatory and balance methods, as well as simulation procedures, would be the most viable option. The regulatory method allows defining the amount of component capital of national resources estimated for all the fields to be monitored (supervised). It has been found that the elimination of duplication in the work of inspection authorities, focused on environment protection, management and safety control, requires determination of a comprehensive list of public authorities charged with environmental control, their power sand mechanism sensuring inter-departmental cooperation. All these measures would help to eliminate the problem of excessive state supervision when managerial and regulating functions along with the approval and control ones are concentrated in the hands of one public authority. It has been proved that the strategy on environmental security should be developed and may include the main threats to environmental safety, the principal guidelines of the national policy for environmental safety control and crucial priorities for the development of national policy in this area.