DIGITALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: LEGAL ASPECTS

This article discusses some issues of digitalization in the field of environmental protection, in particular, the implementation of environmental regulation as the activity of specially authorized state bodies for the development, approval of environmental standards, and ensuring their compliance by all subjects of environmental management. The current legal issues of further improvement of the sphere of digitalization, including problems in the field of environmental regulation, and ways to solve them are analyzed. The foreign experience of informatization and digitalization in the field of environmental protection has been studied. The features of the digital transformation of state functions are considered, such as accounting for objects of harmful, negative impact on the environment; rationing in the field of environmental protection, and issues of improving the system of public services in the establishment of environmental regulations and standards. Also, the foreign experience was studied, and a comparative analysis of national and foreign legislation in the field of digitalization of activities for the establishment of environmental standards was carried out. The article proposes to understand that digitalization is a modern global direction of economic and social development, which is based on the transformation of information into digital form, leading to an increase in the efficiency of the economy and improving the quality of life of the people of the world.