KRIVIČNOPRAVNA ZAŠTITA ŽIVOTNE SREDINE
CRIMINAL PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with several important issues related to human activity that results in environmental degradation. It emphasizes the offenses against the most valuable goods for humanity, their perpetrators, legal regulations and instruments that impose sanctiones against these criminal activities. The paper elaborates questions as, responsibility for the violation of classical legal principles or responsibility for the offenses and caused damage. Among a number of principles on which the environmental law is founded, this paper particularly favors the principle of sovereignty over natural resources and the commitment to preservation of the nature. Many conferences were held, many declarations were adopted, many conventions were signed and provided a multitude of legally binding statements and laws, in order to wide the understanding of the concept of environmental protection and the need for its salvation. The endangering of nature is the result of human actions whose effects are now noticeable in those places where previously they could not be expected. Man becomes aware that he had committed large crimes that without any doubt require the criminal responsibility only by positioning himself between the science and technology and endangered environment.

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