Environmental Legal Aspects of Stimulating Innovation: EU Experience

Abstract

In the article a research of the environmental law means and methods that have a stimulating effect on the development of new technologies is considered. The experience of legal regulation at the level of the EU and Germany in terms of the impact of environmental legal norms and standards on the creation and dissemination of new technologies is considered. Indirect tools for stimulating the creation of environmentally efficient technologies are considered on the example of legal regulation of energy production from renewable sources. The elements of the environmental legal mechanism that contribute to the development and implementation of new technologies that can be used within the framework of the developed environmental and legal mechanism for innovative development (including fixing environmental targets for a long planned period in regulatory legal acts for a long planned period, high rates payments for negative impact on the environment, systematic implementation of the “polluter pays” principle, taking into account a wide range of environmental costs).