E.V. Luneva, 

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Ecological, 

Labor Law and Civil Process of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University 

Z.F. Safin, 

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Ecological, 

Labor Law and Civil Process of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University 

The article examines the development of the judicial interpretation of legal norms about the order of consideration of environmental disputes. Procedural and legal research of trends of the development of jurisprudence in disputes arising from ecological relationships, carried out depending on the levels of judicial acts, which expressed the legal position of the courts regarding the procedure of environmental disputes (decisions of the constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; resolution of the Plenum of the USSR Supreme Court; decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation; the information letters and reviews of judicial practice; resolutions of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation). The authors identified and justified following areas of improving the judicial review activities of environmental disputes: 1) development of the legal position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation about the rules of application of conflicting legal provisions contained in explanatory judicial acts; 2) the systematization of the legal positions of Resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR applied in the territory of the Russian Federation, and also legal positions of not canceled officially the Resolutions of the Plenums of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation of earlier existing environmental legislation; 3) development of the legal position, providing clear criteria of determining jurisdiction of environmental disputes; 4) narrowing the jurisdiction of arbitration courts in consideration of environmental disputes submitted by ban to be referred to arbitration disputes over lease contracts of forest plots in state or municipal ownership. 

Keywords: environmental dispute; the jurisdiction; the subjects appeal to court; limitation period; judicial-ecological expertise; the right to a healthy environment; protection of the environment; claims about compensation for damage to the environment; actions banning harm to the environment; claims about recovery of charges for negative impact on the environment; claims about restriction, suspension or termination of activities. 

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Information about the authors: 

Luneva E.V. (Kazan) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Environmental Law, Labor Law and Civil Procedure (420008, Kazan, Kremlin st., 18, 235 room; e-mail: [email protected]). Safin Z.F. (Kazan) – Doctor of Legal Science, Professor, Head of the Department of Environmental Law, Labor Law and Civil Procedure (420008, Kazan, Kremlin st., 18, 235 room; e-mail: [email protected]).