Scientific Collection «InterConf», (39): with the Proceedings of the 8th International Scientific and Practical Conference «Science and Practice: Implementation to Modern Society» (December 26-28, 2020) at Manchester, Great Britain

Keywords: pollution, water pollution, offences against the environment, environment, 
danger of polution. 
 
Introduction. Prior to preparing the framework necessary for the formulation of 
environmental legislation in the Republic of Moldova, including in matters of criminal 
protection of waters against pollution, it is of special interest to study the forms and 
methods of legal and criminal regulation of ecological activities used in other countries. 
International experience in the field of criminal liability for criminal acts of water 
pollution, from states with democratic, socially and economically developed traditions, 
with achievements in building the rule of law, is useful, beneficial primarily to the 
legislator to further improve the national legislative framework.
Contemporary criminal law in all states of the world, regardless of its membership 
in various legal systems, penalizes acts that lead to a decrease in the quantity and 
quality of water on Earth. In this context, one of the means oriented towards the 

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efficiency of preventing and combating the phenomenon of water pollution is the 
improvement of the legislative construction of the norms of incrimination in the field. 
By highlighting the similarities and differences of the incrimination norms 
regarding the same prejudicial deed, in the context of illustrating a successful 
legislative experience, it is possible to reach proposals of lege ferenda that are meant 
to perfect the incriminating framework. Because the proposals elaborated with 
reference to the signs of the crime component provided by art. 229 CP RM to be as 
reasoned and justified as possible, it is necessary to use the experience gained by the 
legislation of other states in the fight against the pollution phenomenon. All of the 
above shows that at the present stage, the evolution of the national legal system is 
inconceivable without the use of regional and international legal instruments. 
From this perspective, as a result of a long practice of criminalizing the act of 
water pollution, some states - which are close to the Republic of Moldova not only 
geographically but also in terms of legal culture - have gained enough experience that 
can be useful to the Moldovan legislator in order to improve art. 229 CP RM. On the 
other hand, some foreign regulations in the field cannot be taken over, due to non-
compliance with the specifics of the national criminal law system. 
In this sense, the opinion of the Romanian scientist A. Dușan can be accepted, 
according to which the comparative research tries to answer, for the most part, the same 
problems specific to the qualitative analysis [1, p.74]. 
Highlighting the problematic aspects of the application of foreign criminal rules 
on criminal liability for the crime of water pollution, will avoid the mistakes of 
reforming national criminal law, especially environmental crimes. 
Therefore, the study of the positive aspects of the legislation of foreign countries 
helps to analyze in more depth its own legislation, in order to present proposals for its 
improvement. As the French jurist M. Anseli correctly mentioned, "the study of 
foreign, international law opens up many horizons before jurists, allows him to know 
better the law of his country, or the specific characteristics of this right, clearly 
identified with other systems" [2 , p.38]. 

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