To the question of administrative responsibility of legal entities for environmental violations (on the example of the Chelyabinsk region)

In this article, the authors analyzed the problem of administrative liability of legal entities in the field of violation of environmental law. The legal framework on the basis of which the public relations that comprise the subject of this study is characterized. The concepts of administrative responsibility for environmental offenses are disclosed, the object of an environmental offense is identified. The main features that make it possible to distinguish between an administrative offense in the field of environmental management and the corpus delicti in this area are given. Examples of judicial practice on environmental administrative offenses committed by legal entities on the example of the Chelyabinsk region are given. The analysis of the measure of administrative punishment for environmental offenses as a measure of administrative responsibility. The problems of compliance by legal entities with environmental legislation, the peculiarities of administrative offenses in the field of environmental protection and environmental management are identified, and ways to solve them in this area are identified.