The legal basis of anti-mine activity in Ukraine: theoretical and implemental aspects

The issues of the systematization’s prerequisites providing of the modern array of the legal basis of anti-mine activity in Ukraine and identifying the theoretical and implemental features its content formation are reviewed, the specifics of anti-mine activity relationships, the need and the possibility of segregation of those relations into an independent subject of legal regulation are determined. The specifics of relations in anti-mine activity is disclosed not only by the main components of anti-mine action in Ukraine, but also by other provisions of the special Law in this field: 1) the content of the national interests of Ukraine; 2) object and subject composition; 3) the nature of the activity; 4) the meaning of the terms “humanitarian demining” and “anti-mine activity”. Nevertheless, we should note that practically no one specific component of the relations of anti-mine activity has been regulated in the current version of the Law on anti-mine activity, except for the subject composition. The formation of a by-Law block of anti-mine activity legislation, first of all, shall be implemented by the government, since the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approves in this field: the procedure for organizing and conducting anti-mine activity; regulations on the national and operational anti-mine activity body, the commission on the accreditation of operators and monitoring their compliance; the procedure for involving operators to execution of anti-mining events; national standards for humanitarian demining; a list of the probably contaminated and contaminated with explosive objects territories of Ukraine; the procedure for compensation for caused damage, restoration and environmental protection.