Administrative responsibility for environmental offenses
The Orenburg Region materials served as a basis for considering issues associated with application of administrative liability measures for violating atmospheric air protection legislation. The author emphasizes importance of this topic shaped by multiple cases of such violation and high threat they pose to the population health and environmental protection. Based on an analysis of regional legislation and judicial practices, the author argues that there are many problems both in the law-making area and law enforcement field preventing full imposition of sanctions stipulated by laws on administrative offences for an efficient impact on the organization and individuals damaging the environment.