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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Most characteristics of Soviet environmental protection system didn’t meet modern civilization standards. During the pos-Soviet crisis period the situation was getting worse and worse. It was reflected in a number of following indices: the growth of specific environmental emissions and discharges, increase of wastes generation (despite decrease in the number of the production facilities in comparison with 1990); increasing number of industrial accidents (also caused by out-of-date production facilities); obviously low construction and renewal rate of nature conservation facilities; biological diversity reduction; natural ecosystems destruction; introduction of new artificial substances, chemical compounds and microorganisms into biological cycles, while their influence on the health is still uninvestigated etc. Of course, the main reason for this problem is the social system crisis. Ecological problems in Russia can also be explained by such chronic shortcomings in the state environmental policy as lack of economic basis, shortage of appropriated funds, disincentive to develop ecological enterprise and introduction of new technologies, inconsistency, declarative nature and deficiency of the environmental legislation. The collapse of the state and regional environmental monitoring system is a critical organizational problem and it aggravates the situation. There are also such issues as low efficiency of the state ecological expertise, regulation and licensing; public image deterioration of environmental activity; inadequate transparence of budgeting and expenses for environmental protection; limited citizen participation in environmental decision making; violation of civic rights to information about the ecological situation and environmental protection measures. Local authorities lack for powers to implement the ecological imperative.

We come to the conclusion that the arrangement of the efficient ecological monitoring system having economic, legal and public support should become an effective step. Then we should consider the following requirements:

1. Guaranteeing of the federal ecological monitoring priority and its definite mechanism;
2. Improving the subject of federation participation
3. Efficient ecological monitoring development and regulation of practical application;
4. Foundation of municipal ecological monitoring services;
5. Public ecological monitoring development promotion;
6. Intensification of the public and law enforcement environmental cooperation.