我国环境公益诉讼制度探究

Exploration of China's Environmental Public Interest Litigation System

环境公益诉讼制度是保护环境的一项重要司法救济制度。与传统的环境侵权诉讼相比,环境公益诉讼在原告资格、诉讼目的、救济内容、诉讼价值等方面均有很大的不同。我国在司法实践中虽有环境公益诉讼案件不断涌现,但相关的法律条文还很不完善。目前,在世界各国的环境公益诉讼制度中,与我国一样同为发展中人口大国的印度已发展形成较为成熟的环境公益诉讼制度。我国应辩证借鉴国外经验,修改相关立法,完善司法工作机制,尽快建立我国完善的环境公益诉讼制度。

Environmental public interest litigation system is an important judicial relief system of environmental protection. Compared with the traditional environmental tort litigation, it has obvious different characteristics in plaintiff qualification, litigation purposes, relief contents and litigation value. Although, more and more environmental public interest litigation cases are reported recent years in China, the relevant law is far from perfect. Currently many countries, even in India, have developed their own mature litigation system. The author argues that China should learn from foreign experience, amend the relevant legislations and improve the working mechanism of justice in an attempt to establish perfect environmental public interest litigation system.