Limits for Digitalization of Legal Protection of the Environment and Natural Resource Management

Subjective and objective factors influencing the limits of digitalization of legal protection of the environment and environmental management are considered. The author concludes that these limits should be determined by: 1) balancing legal interests (determine the number of received exclusively in electronic form state and municipal services, the possibility for the applicant to choose the form of tendering for the granting of rights to natural resources – certainly for individuals who do not have the status of individual entrepreneur or for their own and other needs not related to the implementation of business activities, etc.); 2) Ensuring national security (preservation of State secrets in the form of a special legal regime of geospatial information of important defence or economic importance, etc.); 3) protection of commercial and other legally protected secrets, including the protection of personal data in relation to digital information related to environmental information; 4) natural patterns affecting the reliability and frequency of updating of digital data (movement of lithospheric plates, shifting of river rows – change of geographical coordinates of objects, etc.).