LEGAL BASIS OF STATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY: TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
The issues of legal protection of the environment, improving the e ciency of public administration in the environmental sphere have been elevated to the rank of national goals, the way to achieve which, according to o cial estimates, is seen, among other things, in the introduction of digital technologies. The article raises the problem of the lack of clarity and unambiguity of the de nition of the legal concept of “digital society” and all terms derived from it. The purpose of the study was to study the existing regulatory de nitions and doctrinal approaches to the concept of digitalization in the aspect of state environmental management, which is considered as the process of introducing digital technologies into the activities of state bodies that improve the quality of their functions. At the same time, under the digital transformation of such management in the article, it is proposed to understand the transition to such a state of environmental management, which is characterized by the onset of speci c socially signi cant results from the use of digital technologies. The readiness of public administration in the eld of environmental protection for digital transformation - regulatory, software, technical support, training, etc., should be called digital maturity, which, in turn, is a prerequisite for digital transformation, transition to a digital society.