环境行政公益诉讼中专家辅助人制度研究

Research on the System of Expert Assistants in Environmental Administrative Public Interest Litigation

在环境行政公益诉讼规范设计中,检察建议程序、调查取证权行使、公益状态考量等一系列运作流程涉及诸多专业性难题,需要专家辅助人参与应对现实需求。基于专家辅助人规范与实践的考察,专家辅助人诉讼地位的模糊造成了实践视角下专家意见效力的不统一,阻碍了庭审实质化进程的顺利推动等现实弊端。从宏观和微观的视角比较专家辅助人在不同诉讼进程中的功能设置,探明其优势发挥的共性与异性,准确定位专家辅助人的诉讼地位,并在此基础上合理设置专家辅助人的制度规则,以期实现维护国家和社会公共利益的终极目标。

In the standard design of environmental administrative public interest litigation,a series of operational procedures such as the procuratorial suggestion procedure,the exercise of the right to investigate and collect evidence,and the consideration of public welfare status involve many professional problems,and expert assistants are required to participate in responding to actual needs.Based on the investigation of the norms and practices of the expert assistants,the ambiguity of the expert assistants’litigation status causes the difference in the effectiveness of expert opinions from the practical perspective,hindering the smooth promotion of the substantive process of court trials and other practical drawbacks.The paper compared the function settings of expert assistants in different litigation processes from the macro and micro perspectives,explored the common and opposite characteristics of their advantages,accurately located the litigation status of expert assistants,and set up a system and rules of expert assistants on this basis,in order to achieve the ultimate goal of safeguarding the public interest of the country and society.