Environmental Damage Assessment Study Indentified Legal Issues

In recent years, due to environmental pollution problems caused by mass incidents every year. Appraisal and evaluation of environmental damage as an environmental justice and administrative aspects necessary to solve environmental disputes and effective means currently widespread concern at home and abroad and continue to be developed in practice,especially in developed countries gradually formed a relatively complete environmental damage acceptance, assessment and determine working procedures, more importantly, is to gradually build up environmental damage appraisal and evaluation of the legal system and a more rational appraisal and evaluation mechanisms. Is mainly used in the environmental damage related legislation and effective management, environmental pollution damage appraisal methods and technology guidance, resources and environmental values and natural blend of traditional culture and build a complete resource protection and environmental rights security system. United States, Japan and the European Union and other countries and regions have combined stage and socioeconomic characteristics of the local environment, development, and carry out extensive environmental damage appraisal and evaluation of theoretical study and practical application, the definition of environmental damage appraisal, objectives, targets, content to make a clear definition of success based on the formation of different types of polluter pays principle environmental damage liability system. Compared to developed countries for the damage appraisal and evaluation of environmental contamination exists a lack of specialized legal appraisal and some supporting laws and regulations are not perfect, technical standards of scientific appraisal, appraisal review process is not yet standardized and other issues. Therefore,China needs to fully draw on foreign countries to carry out environmental damage appraisal mechanism of practical experience, has characteristics based on the current situation and stage of economic development, environment, building environmental damage appraisal and evaluation system in line with China’s national conditions, which inhibit malignant environment contamination events, ensuring environmental damage public and private interests to get full compensation for the maintenance of environmental justice has important practical significance.