Environmental dimension of charges for utilization of animal kingdom and water biological resources

The article is devoted to the study of the charges for utilization of animal kingdom and water biological resources in Russia from an ecological point of view. The article provides the basics of the legal framework for the charges and their key ecological functions. As a result of the given functions performing analysis it reveals a number of problems which prevent the functioning of the studied charges as environmental ones. Mainly the issues are concerned with the rates permanence and misuse of revenues from the charges. Therefore it gives the recommendations for partial ecologization of these charges.