POLISH AND CHINESE APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Abstract

Environmental problems have caused countries around the
world to develop their own unique approaches to ecological policies and this
requires legal development. Environmental law is mostly based in public law,
however some of the provisions are implemented within the private law. This
article describes general environmental legal systems of Republic of Poland and
People’s Republic of China and focuses on the main private law instruments of
environmental protection in the both states. Poland uses, traditional for European
countries, civil liability of environmental protection. On the other hand, People’s
Republic of China began the process of greening of civil law, what is visible by
establishment of new basic principle of civil law focusing on ecology (Green
Principle).