EURO-ECO 2010 Hanover 2 - 3 Dezember 2010	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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The environmental conditions immediately concern the interests of the whole Russian population. That is why an important direction of public life democratization and environmental enhancement is formed by civic participation in ecological movements, in the development and implementation process of the state environmental policy, in the realization of different environmental protection measures.

Public ecological monitoring plays an important role in all this. It may include:

1. Environmental information acquisition and facilitation of public reaction measures;
2. Public environmental examination;
3. Ecological information publishing;
4. Holding public environmental events;
5. Direction of appeals and applications concerning infringement of the laws, improper execution of environmental protection obligations by officials or those, who conduct nature management.
6. Development and implementation of suggestions to improve the work of corresponding state structures;
7. Participation in ecologically significant decision-making concerning adoption of environmental normative acts, design and construction of facilities making influence on the environment, etc.

However, the practical formation of the public ecological monitoring system faces a number of difficulties, such as:

1. Weakness of the legal basis. Although above mentioned civic rights are more or less reflected in laws, they are not regulated in by-laws. In this situation representatives of the state structures refer to the fact that the state doesn’t have to regulate the public ecological monitoring system because it has no right to intervene in activities of public associations.
2. Almost total absence of people willing to conduct ecological monitoring. It can be explained by the loss of prestige of public work, which can also cause negative retaliatory actions of state structures and business corporations against public supervisors.
3. Low professional level of public monitoring, legal incompetence of public supervisors.
4. Lack of financial basis of the public ecological monitoring.

The analysis of typical obstacles for public ecological monitoring development revealed that the state can play an important role in their overcoming. If the state funds the activity of political parties (their participation in elections etc.), supports sustaining losses corporations, why can’t it form a financial basis for the public ecological monitoring? If it secures the safety of the officials, why doesn’t it bear responsibility for safety, life and health of public supervisors?

Ecological organizations pursue not private but public goals, so the direct duty of the state is to facilitate their activity in every possible way.