Preventive Methods of Administration in Protecting the Environment from Pollution - Comparative Legal Study

Abstract

Administration can follow different legal methods to protect and improve environment in light of the environmental legislation that regulates its activities, including preventive methods to prevent various activities from polluting the environment. That could be done by managing procedures of administrative control in accordance with its legal power and through its authority to issue organizational and individual decisions and to impose forced execution if necessary. In order to protect the public order with its components (public security, public health and public tranquility), and this applies to environmental administrative control procedures. The administration has direct preventive methods (with direct impact) in this regard. Such as its authority to ban or license an activity, or to compel its owner to do a specific matter, or to be satisfied with merely reporting it in accordance with its discretionary authority granted by law, with adherence to the conditions specified by law in certain cases. Others are indirect (with an indirect future impact), such as information, awareness and environmental education as methods stipulated by various legislations and the administration is obligated to use them in order to protect the environment from pollution.