EU POLICY IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION WITH REFERENCE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Abstract

Endangering environment and its protection have been representing a problem for the mankind throughout decades. Disappearance of harmony between man and nature has created numerous dangers which degrade the accomplishments of the civilization achieved so far, cause enormous damaging effect on people, their lives and health, body integrity and many other values. Therefore, the significance of the environmental protection is highlighted as the most important global challenge of the modern society. Thus, various issues from and related to the field of environment form an important part of the activity of EU, that has lately been undertaking more comprehensive and more intensive political actions in this domain. Environmental crime today is considered to be a serious and widely spread phenomenon which has got to be suppressed on transnational level. For that matter, criminal-legal protection of environment is a final, but also a very efficient and more than a necessary measure. At the same time, the role of the family as a basic cell of the society is being extended, so that regarding the development of environmental awareness, family has a special place, especially in forming healthy and ecologically-responsible persons. The existence of a healthy and devoted family is a prerequisite for the existence of a healthy and progressive society.