Comparative Legal Analysis of the Forests Legal Protection in Ukraine, Poland and Germany

Abstract

The article examines the international legal experience of forest protection in the leading countries of the European Union, namely in Poland and Germany. The author analyzes the ecological status of forest resources in Ukraine, Poland and Germany. Legislative support for the legal protection of forests and the legal mechanism for the implementation of these relationships in Poland, Germany and Ukraine are investigated. The article identifies the main problems in ensuring the legal protection of the forest fund in our country and proposes to reform the forest industry in the aspect of management, control, felling and sale of forest timber with the borrowing of international experience, which has become effective in European countries. In addition, the legal gaps in the conduct of the state environmental policy of Ukraine in the field of forest resources are studied and the inability of state financing of this sector of economy by our state is determined. The article proposes at the legislative level to develop and approve a single strategy for the development of the forest industry and its protection in Ukraine. It is also proposed to approve a state-level plan for deforestation and their conservation and restoration, to set up an open electronic auction of timber sales, which will reduce corruption, and to establish an independent financing system operating in Poland. The scientific work emphasizes the need for forest inventory and development of the state legal mechanism for implementing this issue, as known as forest land is in public and private property and no data about their environmental condition. The author also proposes to draw on the foreign experience from the developed countries of the European Union: Poland and Germany for the successful conduct of such legal procedure in Ukraine.