환경지도ㆍ단속 업무의 현황 및 향후 정책방향

Abstract

To produce satisfactory results of the regulations in the environmental law, it is necessary to monitor if the regulations are implemented properly and to enforce it if they are not implemented. So, as a concrete measure of monitoring and enforcement, to ensure the effectiveness of environmental inspection and control. At present, the Ministry of Environment and local governments are splitting up the inspection and control duty over establishments, especially the plants discharging pollutants. But, since most of the inspection and control duty has been transferred to the local governments with the full operation of self-governing system, the regional offices of the Ministry of Environment now take charge of extremely small portion. However, many questions has been raised if this division of duty is appropriate, because some local governments' performance in this field has been very poor. In this thesis, I presented several policy directions to be considered in the future, based on the evaluation of present state of inspection and control duty. In Korea, it becomes an important task in the environment management to ensure the implementation of environmental law by effective inspection and control system which can achieve high-level environmental protection and be compatible with sound economic growth. To respond this task effectively, it is important to make the division of the duty between Ministry of Environment and the local governments more efficiently to realize the anticipated result, to promote the industrialists' environmental consciousness and will to keep the environmental law through the strengthening of economic disincentive, and to lead the citizen to report the violation of the law polluting the environment. Besides, to achieve the object of environmental policy effectively and efficiently, an endeavor to improve the consistency in the enforcement of environmental regulations across the nation is also required.