Principles of protection of the environment and their application in international, European Community and Czech law

ENGLISH SUMMARY: This thesis, called "Environmental Principles and Their Application in International, European Community and Czech Law", is concerned with the problems of environmental principles as part of legal order. The special nature of environmental law implies the specific attributes of these principles. My task is to demonstrate and to give reasons for these special features. It requires previous investigation into their relation to the universal definition of the concept of "principle". I have used the comparative and teleological method with a view to contribute towards understanding the sense of environmental principles as instruments of the environmental protection The thesis is composed of two parts, each of them is dealing with different approaches: The opening part introduces a specific branch of law - the environmental law and shows what its primary purpose is and circumscribes the object of protection. The following chapter focuses on the sources of law and points out that the principle can be regarded as independent source of law. The theoretical construction of the principle is similar to the norm of law. The chapter called "The general characteristic of the principles of law" refers to differences of these constructions, which are the basis of qualifying the qualities of principles and..