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Legal aspects of environmental rights guarantees in the conditions of martial state in Ukraine

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Created on 25 June 2025

Last Updated on 25 June 2025

Published on 30 November -0001

Written by M. Sirant, L. Sheptytska, O. Remenyak, N. Zakharchyn, S. Tsebenko

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M.Sirant*, orcid.org/0000-0002-9393-2397, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

L.Sheptytska, orcid.org/0000-0003-3070-0131, National Forestry University of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine; е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

O.Remenyak, orcid.org/0000-0002-5175-1280, National Forestry University of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

N.Zakharchyn, orcid.org/0000-0003-3000-2595, National Forestry University of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

S.Tsebenko, orcid.org/0000-0002-9247-1867, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Naukovyi Visnyk Natsionalnoho Hirnychoho Universytetu. 2025, (3): 147 - 155

https://doi.org/10.33271/nvngu/2025-3/147

Abstract:

Purpose. To prove the need to improve the legislation of Ukraine to increase the level of implementation of environmental rights guarantees in the conditions of the martial law and to develop proposals for changes in legislation.

Methodology. The comparison method indicated the insufficient imperativeness of environmental law guarantees in Ukraine. The structural-functional method allowed us to propose the introduction of a social compromise in choosing priorities for ensuring the guarantees of citizens’ rights. The method of legal analysis ‒ to indicate that war requires the integration of mechanisms of different law branches and to propose changes in the legal field. The method of assessing legal dynamics made it possible to point out the need to improve and harmonize legal provisions on ensuring guarantees of environmental rights under martial law in Ukraine.

Findings. It is noted that legal norms that guarantee the environmental rights of citizens in Ukraine reduce the level of imperativeness in wartime. There is an indicated need in martial law to accelerate the adaptation of the regulatory and legal field to the requirements of the time regarding the level of imperativeness of environmental rights guarantees for citizens while strengthening the responsibilities of state institutions regarding guarantees not limited by the Laws of Ukraine. For the period of martial law, it is proposed to introduce a social compromise in choosing priorities for ensuring guarantees of citizens’ rights. It is indicated that the inadmissibility of a regulatory ban on access to environmental information, which limits the possibilities of public organizations as an instrument for guarantees of citizens’ environmental rights, is unacceptable.

Originality. It is indicated that under martial law, the need to integrate mechanisms of various branches of law increases for the implementation of environmental rights guarantees. This is substantiated by proposals for the integration of mechanisms of environmental law and civil defense.

Practical value. The proposed measures to improve the regulatory and legal field of Ukraine will eliminate legal uncertainty, ensure compliance with the principle of justice in judicial proceedings, and improve the implementation of guarantees of environmental law.

Keywords: guarantees, environmental rights, martial law, legal uncertainty, integration of branches of law

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