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3.3 The concept of environmental law

Legal documents that help to regulate the relationship between nature and society can be considered as a source of environmental law. The sources of environmental law are regulatory documents. It should be noted that any legal document does not serve as a source. A legal document considered as a source of environmental law must meet the following requirements:

• Adoption by the competent state authorities;

• Mandatory within the established framework;

• Establish environmental regulations;

• Having a formal form, structure, expiration date and other attributes, etc.

Sources of environmental law are the legislation that serves to regulate social relations related to the protection of the environment, rational use of natural resources and environmental safety of the population.

The system of environmental legislation is a set of constitutional rules governing environmental relations, laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Cabinet of Ministers, specially authorized state bodies and local authorities.

In order for the sources of environmental law to regulate a wide range of social relations, they can also be classified as follows:

The sources of legal force are divided into laws and regulations;

In the areas of regulation of environmental relations:

• nature protection legislation;

• legislation on rational use of natural resources;

• Legislation to ensure the environmental safety of the population.

on the subject of regulation of relations:

general and special environmental legislation.

legislation of material and procedural significance on the state of legal regulation;

simple codified and and sources on the system of legislative acts;

on the scope of application of the legislation: sources at the territorial and republican level, at the international level, etc.

Thus, the sources of environmental law are in the system of legislation governing social relations arising in the process of protection of the environment, rational use of natural resources, ensuring the environmental safety of the population.

Environmental legislation has a complex system, and by its nature we study them in three main parts to make them easier to study:

• Constitutional basis of environmental law;

• The system of legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of ecology;

• The system of legal and regulatory documents in the field of ecology.

The main source of environmental law is the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Articles 50, 54, 55 and 100 of the Basic Law strengthen environmental legal requirements related to nature protection and rational use of our natural resources.1

Article 50 of the Constitution stipulates that "Citizens are obliged to treat the environment with care" and strengthens the environmental obligations of citizens at the constitutional level.

On the basis of the provisions and principles of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, laws aimed at protecting the natural environment, rational use of natural resources and ensuring the ecological safety of the population shall be adopted.

If our main law defines the main directions of the state ecological policy, the laws adopted in accordance with these constitutional provisions will strengthen the requirements and mechanisms for the protection of the natural environment and the rational use of natural resources.