我国污染环境罪立法检讨

Legislative Review of Crime of Environmental Pollution in China

现行的《中华人民共和国刑法》第338条规定的"污染环境罪"是我国经济发展状况和民众环保意识达到较高水平的产物,是由原1997年《中华人民共和国刑法》第338条规定的"重大环境污染事故罪"修改而来的。虽然污染环境罪的设立对于预防和打击污染环境犯罪、保护环境起到一定的积极作用,但是从应然的层面看,该条立法设置的罪名不科学、罪状不合理、法定刑不适当,影响了该条立法功能的正常发挥,应针对上述不足对规定该罪的刑法立法进行修正。

The current"crime of environmental pollution"stipulated in Article 338 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China is a product of China’s economic development and people’s high-level awareness of environmental protection.It modified"the crime of major environmental pollution accidents",Article 338 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China in 1997.Although the establishment of the crime of environmental pollution has played a positive role in preventing and combating environmental crimes and protecting the environment,from the normative perspective,the legislation has set an unscientific crime,unreasonable facts of crime and inappropriate statutory sentence.In order to normalize the legislative function of this article,the criminal law legislation that stipulates the crime should be amended in response to the above-mentioned deficiencies.