Legal Support for Ecological Safety in the Republic of Kazakhstan

• Main Author: Gulzhazira A. Ilyasova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Academic Publishing House Researcher 2014-03-01
• Series: Evropejskij Issledovatelʹ
• Subjects: enforceability; national safety; ecological safety; ecological legislation; ecological issues; environmental protection; right to a healthy environment
• Online Access: http://www.erjournal.ru/journals_n/1398793173.pdf

The article features the analysis of Kazakhstan’ National Legislation, international conventions (agreements) in the area of Ecological Sustainability ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan. The agreements have been endorsed by Resolutions of Inter-Parliament Assembly of States Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Recommended legal act dated November 2, 1996, “Law on Ecological Safety” dated November 15, 2003. The analysis of Kazakhstan’s legislation demonstrates partially effective laws on ecological safety. In this regard, there is a need to systemize the current legislature and adopt legal instrument regulating sustainability of ecological safety in the Republic of Kazakhstan.