Legal status and regime for the protection and use of specially protected natural areas: problem statement

Federal and regional legislation in the area of specially protected natural areas (PAs) has revealed a number of regulatory gaps. In particular, the absence of a uniform approach to the terms used in the Federal Law «On Specially Protected Natural Territories» and the Law of Chelyabinsk Region «About specially protected natural territories of Chelyabinsk region» has been revealed. In addition, the lack of clear content of the concept of «regime of protection», «regime of specially protected natural territory» have been revealed. The article proposes to amend the current federal and regional legislation in order to consider specially protected natural areas as territories with a special legal status. Giving a territory the status of a specially protected natural area will make it possible to establish a special regime of special protection and use on it, which includes a set of prohibited and permitted types of activities carried out both in a protected area of a certain type as a whole, and in relation to individual objects (land plots, water bodies, etc.). etc.).