The principles of European environmental law

- Principles of European environmental law The main ambition of this thesis is to examine the principles of European environmental law. To this forminable challenge is first of all very useful to understand, which role the principles generally play in the system of law. That is why we have to focus on this phenomenon from the position of theory of law, when we try to put forward the definition of principles. We also draw the attention to the differences, which contradistinguish the principles from other rules of law and another matters, such as values and policies, to which they can be easily interchanged. We demonstrate the variety of functions which the principles perform in legal order as well as their subserviency during the course of decision making process. Henceforth we devide the principles into specific groups in compliance with their different characteristic features and so create the typology of principles. All these problems we try to solve in the first part of this thesis. In the second part of this work we target closely to the principles of European environmental law. We identify all the positions in primary law, where are the principles set in and we also learn , that the position of principles in the primary european law had to be laborously gained. We also discover the specific..