On June 11, 2021, the training course “Prosecutor’s Protection of Environment” was completed at the Prosecutor’s Training Center of Ukraine.

Protecting the environment is one of the most important challenges that humanity has to face today. Therefore, it is important to develop legal instruments comprehensively in the field of environmental protection.

Participants of the training course considered a number of issues, including: criminal-legal qualification of environmental crimes, separation of criminally punishable acts from administrative offenses, features of qualification of criminal crimes against the environment, separation from related crimes, features of investigative (criminal) proceeding regarding crimes against the environment.

The following trainings were conducted within the course “Prosecutor’s Protection of Environment”:

“Activities of the prosecutor in the field of environmental protection”,

“Implementation by the prosecutor of procedural guidance in criminal proceedings on criminal crimes against the environment”,

“Representation by the prosecutor of the interests of the state in court”,

“Supporting public prosecution in criminal proceedings concerning criminal crimes in the ecological sphere”.

Trainers:

Nataliia Ryzhenko – Head of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Control of the State Ecological Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor;

Inna Berdnik – Associate Professor of the Department of Law Enforcement and General Law Disciplines of the Chernihiv National University of Technology, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor;

Olena Oliinyk – Professor of the Department of Criminal Law Policy and Criminal Law of the Institute of Law of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor.

Ruslan Strilets – Deputy Minister for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitization of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine;

Serhii Saienko – Head of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine;

Ihor Shkolnyi – Head of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine;

Oleksii Kopanytsia – Deputy Head of the Department of Engineering and Environmental Research of the Laboratory of Engineering and Technical Types and Research of Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine;

Diana Danko – Prosecutor of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine;

Stanislav Petrenko – Prosecutor of the Podilsky District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv;

Dzhennet Ataieva – Deputy Head of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine;

Maksym Skrypka – Prosecutor of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.

Moderators of the event: Arevik Abramiants – expert of the analytical department of prosecutors training and Artem Lazariev – consultant of the analytical department of prosecutors training of the Prosecutor’s Training Center of Ukraine.