Criminal legislative rules establishing criminal liability for the waste management rules infringement in the European Union

The article considers the experience of legislative regulation of criminal liability for violations of the rules of waste management in the member states of the European Union, which have shown the greatest efficiency in building the system of waste management. The analysis of the criminal legislation of these countries in terms of responsibility for the illegal handling of waste allows us to conclude that it is advisable to introduce foreign experience in terms of introducing into the criminal law of the Russian Federation independent criminal legal norms containing the elements of the crime, reflecting the peculiarities of the illegal handling of waste. The study of peculiarities of regulation of criminal liability for illegal handling of wastes in the legislation of foreign countries led to the conclusion that for Russia the most acceptable as a borrowing is the legislative experience of Germany and Latvia, which consists in fixing criminal liability for illegal handling of waste in the framework of a separate article, which formulates a number of corpus delicti of crimes with a single subject in the form of waste.