Senior Expert at Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine - Kyiv, Kyiv city, Ukraine
Deputy Head of Waste Managment and Environmental Safety Department
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The basis of the state environmental policy is the principle according to which environmental security is an important and integral element of national security. Statements, which develop this principle, were enshrined by the Constitution of Ukraine ('Everyone has the right to a safe and healthy environment and to compensation caused by the violation of this right. Everyone is guaranteed the right of free access to information on environment, the quality of food and consumer goods, and the right to disseminate it. Such information can not be classified by anyone. " Art. 50) and a number of laws and documents. By the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine were the concept and 'The main directions of the environmental policy of Ukraine in the field of environmental protection, use of natural resources and environmental security defined purpose, priorities, mechanisms of their implementation and directions of harmonization of environmental policy of Ukraine with the European environmental process. The nature protection activities have a goal to achieve an optimal balance between the harmful environmental effects, which follow the society development, and potential ability of natural resources to reproduction.