DATABASE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC AWARENESS ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION

This paper presents a database of environmental legislation, designed and adapted to help the public to easy access to environmental legislation, in order to know the effects and consequences of harmful practices in interaction with the environment. Environmental database will be available online and allows online access to environmental legislation by the references data of legislative documents (no. document, year of entry into force, document type, etc.). It will also allow users to search for words, sentences or phrases, or logical combinations thereof. In addition database will be structured on legislative requirements of each normative act separately. It will allow an analysis of the requirements of each law, especially in terms of public awareness on environmental management and protection. The applications will be based on environmental legislation of Romania, which is harmonized with European legislation. In terms of structural, conceptual and application level, it can be adapted to environmental legislation of any European country.