台湾环境公民诉讼制度述评

Abstract

台湾地区1999年首次规定了环境公民诉讼制度。该制度的建立适应了台湾环境运动向法制化发展,加强了环境法规的执法力度,具有积极的意义。经过近十年的运行,民众对于环境公民诉讼制度逐渐了解,团体诉讼定位不断明确,司法界对法律的适用也变得日臻成熟。但是,对于正处于发展阶段的环境公民诉讼制度,仍然面对立法和实务上的挑战。如何从法律上定位环保团体的诉讼功能并赋予其当事人资格,是台湾法律界亟待解决的问题。

10 years have passed since the environmental citizen suit provision was adopted in 1999 in Taiwan.The establishment of environmental citizen suit system adapts to the legalized environmental movements,reinforces the enforcement of environmental legislations and has a positive meaning for the development of the whole legal system.By observing the effect of thus provisions for the past decade,on the one hand citizens are more familiar with the environmental citizen suit provisions than years ago,on the other hand,environmental group suits are well positioned and the application of law is maturing.Nevertheless,as a developing system,it still faces with the challenge.How to locate the position of environment groups in the citizen suits and grant the standing of the environment group to sue as a plaintiff should be solved by the legislature.