Foreign Regulatory Expansion in Environmental Regulation

Environmental regulation is a mechanism that restores the balance on the path of sustainable socioeconomic development of Russia.

The paper examines the problems of regulatory pressure from the EU and the US on the implementation of the environmental and energy policy in Russia. It is shown that the national environmental legislation, the national environmental regulation of Russia is increasingly dependent on environmental regulations and standards of the EU and the United States. Foreign environmental rule-making as an element of expansion is manifested not only in the example of the carbon tax, but also in many other cases. The EU directives are built on the principle of preserving the quality of the environment and individual components, but at the same time, they are the instruments that allow the EU member states to enjoy a certain kind of advantages over other countries that are not included in the EU environmental control zone.

The authors conclude that gradually, in foreign practice, environmental regulation is becoming not only and not so much a tool for protecting the environment as a convenient mechanism for solving economic problems.

The authors conclude that the only way to resist the obvious expansion of environmental rule-making is to have a proven and obvious “environmental” alternative. Leadership in the field of environmental management, environmental safety will give the economic policy of the Russian Federation meaning and support from the whole world in the event that national environmental standards have their own content that is different from others (the EU and the USA).

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