The Research Issue Concerned About Whether Individual Citizens Are Qualified For Environmental Public Interest Litigation

Currently, the problem of environmental pollution and ecological destruction is increasingly prominent. Strengthen the environmental protection has become an crucial issue. The Environmental public interest litigation system established by the new Civil Procedure Law in2013has laid down Institutional guarantees for resolving the environmental problem. And defining the scope of the plaintiffs qualification is the top priority of implementing Environmental public interest litigation. In the course of environmental legislation in our country over the recent years, many controversies about whether natural persons are entitled to file a lawsuit were carried around by all sectors of society. Taking as a breakthrough point,this paper bases on deeply analizing the dispute focuses of all parties, studying the basic theory of plaintiff’s qualification in the Environmental public interest litigation, summarizing judicial practice experience from parts of our nation and combining our real situation and judicial revelation from countries like the United States, Japan, India and the Taiwan region. The auther thinks that it is both necessary and feasible to give natural persons the plaintiffs qualifications in the Environmental public interest litigation.