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The article is dedicated to the definition of the main directions of improve-ment of Section VIII of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine as a key element of the mechanism of criminal law protection of the environment. In addition to abandoning the legislative structure «creating a danger to life, health or the environment», based on the critical elaboration of case law, the achievements of criminal law doctrine and the experience of foreign legislators the following areas are proposed to include: the differentiation of criminal liability for pollution or damage to natural resources, depending on the form of guilt, and secondly, solving the issues of penalizing crimes against the environment. Within the limits of the latter provision on expediency are substantiated: coordination of sanctions of the corresponding criminal law norms and bringing them into conformity to public danger of the actions provided by these norms; establishment of punishment for the com-mission of the vast majority of criminal offenses against the environment in the form of a fine with the significant increase of its amount.
Дудоров et al. (Wed,) studied this question.