Research On The Qualification Of Environmental Public Interest Litigation Subject

Environment resource is the foundation of human development. With the development of industrialization, the problem of environmental pollution in china has become more and more serious. Environmental public interest litigation has become an important means to safeguard public interest, too. According to the provisions of China's existing laws, the content of environmental public interest litigation is so little. In the appeal of the community of theory and the practice of our nation, the current Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China has began to structure the system of environmental public interest litigation in the 55th provision. "Where environment is polluted, the lawful rights and interests of consumers are infringed on, or other acts of impairing the public interests are committed, the organs stipulated by law and relevant organizations may bring actions to people's court." However, it is just a principle. Who is the proper plaintiff to initiate litigation for public environment welfare? What kind of system can we construct for these people? We have a necessity to research on these problems. We should reference the system of foreign public environment welfare lawsuit and combine our national conditions to construct a rational system of environmental public interest litigation.