Environment as an object of administrative and legal protection
This article analyzes the concept of the environment as an object of administrative and legal protection. Highlighting the approaches existing in science and reflected in administrative legislation, the author identifies individual defects in the legal regulation of the environment as an object of administrative and legal protection, forms proposals for their elimination. It is concluded that environmental control (supervision) is one of the methods of administrative and legal protection of the environment, which is the activity of specially authorized executive bodies aimed at implementing the function of state administration in the field of environmental protection, the implementation of which requires the use of other powerful ways of its administrative and legal protection.