环境民事公益诉讼程序规则的争议与完善

The Controversy and Perfection of Environmental Civil Public Interest Litigation Procedural Rules

近年来,环境民事公益诉讼在我国获得了长足的发展,但仍然面临着法律规则供给不足的困境,相关程序规则不能满足审判实践的需要,在起诉阶段、审前阶段、审判阶段各个方面都存在一些有较大争议的问题,严重制约了环境民事公益诉讼制度功效的发挥。为完善环境民事公益诉讼的起诉程序,应鼓励、引导公民通过多种方式参与到环境民事公益诉讼之中,合理定位检察机关提起的环境公益诉讼,针对不同情况区别设置前置程序。为完善环境民事公益诉讼的审前程序,应针对争议焦点的整理、交换证据、释明权等重点问题建构程序性制度。为完善环境民事公益诉讼的审判程序,需要优化环境民事公益诉讼中的举证责任分配,进一步规范环境民事公益诉讼的调解程序。

Environmental civil public interest litigation in China has made considerable progress in recent years.However, it Still faces the dilemma of insufficient supply of legal rules. There are some controversial issues in the prosecution stage, the pre-trial stage and the trial stage. In order to improve the procedure of environmental public interest litigation, citizens should be encouraged and guide to participate in the environmental civil public interest litigation in various ways. In order to perfect the pretrial procedure, Procedural system should be constructed for key problems. In order to improve the trial procedure, the allocation of burden of proof in environmental public interest litigation should be optimised, as well as further regulate the mediation procedure.