International Legal Regulation of Environmentally Oriented Energy and Ukrainian Practice

Abstract

Due to the worldwide environmental degradation and a decrease in the supply of fossil energy sources, the development of environmentally oriented energy (EOE) gains more and more importance. Legal relationships in the sphere of regulation of these relations are the subject of both national and international law. As for the first legal system, in Ukraine, for example, there is a special law - "On Alternative Energy Sources" (2003) 1 • This law has determined which sources, according to the author's mind, actually relate to alternative energy - "Renewable energy sources, which include solar, wind, geothermal, wave energy and tidal, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, gas, sewage treatment plants, biogas and secondary energy resources, which include blast furnace and coke gas, methane gas drainage of coal deposits, converting waste energy potential processes" {Article 1). At the same time, in connection with a certain novelty theme for the national regulator and the lack of constant terms, both in international and national levels, in the names of acts of national law of Ukraine different terms are used - "alternative energy", "alternative energy sources" (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.09.2012 No 878, Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] of Ukraine of 04.07.2012 No. 5045-VI), "renewable energy and alternative fuels" (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 12.09.2012 No. 921), "electricity from alternative sources" (Law of Ukraine of 17.06.2011 No. 3549-VI), etc.