Polytechnic and design, Vol. 13 No. 4, 2025.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.19279/TVZ.PD.2025-13-4-12
LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Ljiljana Matuško Antonić
; Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Vrbik 8, Zagreb, Croatia
*
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
The development of industry and human social activities is increasingly causing environmental pollution. Every individual in society has the rights and duties, within the scope of their powers and activities, to take care of the protection of human health, nature and the human environment. Legal norms in the Republic of Croatia prescribe environmental protection measures within the framework of the concept of sustainable development, environmental protection subjects, environmental protection instruments, monitoring of the state of the environment, as well as an environmental protection information system and ensuring access to environmental information and other important areas. The Environmental Protection Act and other special laws and regulations regulate the issues of air protection, water protection, protection of the sea and coastal areas, nature protection, protection of soil and the earth's crust, protection of forest areas, protection from the impact of environmental loads, which include, among others, protection from noise, protection from light pollution, protection from the harmful effects of chemicals, waste management. Environmental protection includes a number of measures to prevent pollution and environmental contamination and prevent the occurrence of damage.
Keywords
environment; environmental pollution; waste management
Hrčak ID:
352277
URI
Publication date:
30.1.2026.
Visits: 0 *