Naslov
The Appearance of Environmental Protection in Two Constitutions – The Case of Hungary and Croatia

Autori
Panovics, Attila ; Odobaša Rajko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, ostalo

Knjiga
Cross-border and EU legal issues: Hungary-Croatia

Urednik/ci
Drinoczi, T. ; Takacs, T.

Izdavač
Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Pečuhu ; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku

Grad
Pečuh : Osijek

Godina
2011

Raspon stranica
521-546

ISBN
978-953-6072-52-1

Ključne riječi
environmental protection, sustainable development, national constitutions, environmental rights

Sažetak
Nowdays humankind has to face a series of crises, which impose difficulties on present and future generations as well. Currently, the environment is used to an extent and in a way that exceeds its renewable capacity. Ore and more people around the world are searching for, questioning and urging a solution, but they do not see clearly the reasons of these global and comlex phenomena. The need for international cooperation in the field of environmental protection especially proves that nations are no longer distant from each other. Several conferences and conventions made attempts to achive wide scope cooperation to overcome environmental deterioration and poverty, but they could not result in substantive breakthrough. This contribution looks at the similarities and differences between the environmental provisions of the Hungarian and Croatian constitutions, and analyses whether the practise of the Hungarian Constitutional Court can also be applied for the interpretation of the Croatian Constitution. It specifically focuses on constitutional courts as basic components of developing environmental law in the broader quest for sustainability. A secondary objective is to build awareness of the challenges and create a dialogue with scholars on how sustainability and environmental protection could be promoted, strengthened and integrated into the national constitutions. The comparison of different constitutional provisions may be especially useful in consequence of the fact that the Republic of Croatia hopes to join the European Union in 2012 since there is still a good chance that the accesionnegotiations with the EU could be completed this year. Though Hungary has been a member state of the EU since 1 May 2004, it would also benefit from the earliest possible accession of Croatia. Moreover, the new Government of Hungary declared that, having the necessary two-thirds majority, it is intended to fully rewrite the Hungarian Constitution during its term of office.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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Ekonomija

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