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of Testing of Nuclear Weapons in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and
Under Water in 1963; The Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxic Weapons and on their Destruction of 1972;

Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Waste and Other
Materials, 1972; The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of
Means of Influence on the Environment in 1976 by the military or any

other enemy.
Thus, the legislative base of international environmental law is
constantly being updated, changing due to changes in the international
situation and the expansion of environmental issues.

As a result of the active development of integration processes on
European continents, European environmental law arose. An
important factor in the implementation of the legal reform and

integration of Ukraine into the European Union (hereinafter - the EU)
is the formation and implementation of the National Program for the
Adaptation of Ukrainian Legislation to EU Legislation. The Law of

Ukraine of November 21, 2002 approved the Concept of the National
Program of Adaptation of Ukrainian Legislation to the Law of the
European Union, and the Law of Ukraine of March 18, 2004 approved

the National Program.
Adaptation of the Ukrainian legislation to the EU legislation is a
phased adoption and implementation of Ukraine's legal acts drafted in
line with EU legislation.

The National Program for the Adaptation of Ukrainian
Legislation to EU Legislation is a set of interrelated tasks for the
adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to EU legislation aimed at

implementing the state policy and priority directions of creating a
modern legal system of Ukraine by improving the normative activity
of public authorities and introducing a unified system of planning,
coordination and monitoring the work on approximation of legislation.

This program identifies a mechanism for Ukraine to meet the third
Copenhagen and Madrid criteria for membership in the EU. This
mechanism includes adaptation of legislation, establishment of

appropriate institutions and other additional measures necessary for
effective law-making and law enforcement.
Ukraine has established the main political, legal and

organizational principles of legislative approximation. In particular,

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