The Right to a Healthy Environment in the Hungarian Constitution

Anita Paulovics; Adrienn Jámbor

doi:10.21029/JAEL.2022.32.98

Anita Paulovics Professor and Head of Department, Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Miskolc
Adrienn Jámbor Senior Lecturer, Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Miskolc

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21029/JAEL.2022.32.98

Keywords: right to a healthy environment, environmental protection, polluter pays principle, Constitutional Court

Abstract

The aim of the study is to present the development of the environmental law institutions founded up to the present day. Regulations concerning the protection of the environment had first been defined on international level before they appeared in the national legal system. Basic questions of environmental law are being analysed in this study. The history of environmental law is reviewed briefly from the 1950s to the present day both in international and national aspects as well as the constitutional foundation of environment protection within the right to a healthy environment and its Constitutional Court practice. This study will not touch upon the detailed study of the underlying principals of the national environmental law.