Spiridonov, D.V. Specific features of legal responsibility in the sphere of use of work and work safety

Abstract: This article is devoted to the detailed study of legal liability in cases of violations of the norms on mining laws. The article provides for the need for the more detailed and elaborate regulation of the system of legal liability in the sphere of use of subsoil resources. This is due to the fact that the subsoil is a key element to the natural resources system of the humanity, being the source of necessary minerals and raw materials. The analysis includes an attempt to single out conceptual specificities in the sphere of use of subsoil resources. The author studies the issues of administrative, criminal and civil law responsibility, material and disciplinary responsibility. In the process of his analysis the author touches upon the practical problem in this sphere. He provides the fundamentals for the fact that the system of punishments existing in the mining industry fails to guarantee necessary preventive and preclusive measures in order to prevent and lower the number of crimes and other offences in this sphere. The article also provides the bases for the responsibility for the violations of legislation on subsoil resources as an element of environmental legal responsibility, and he offers to introduce some changes into the legislation on responsibility in the sphere of use of subsoil resources.

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