사법상 환경책임과 공법상 환경책임

Environmental liability law can be divided into Private and Public Law. The former is a form of environmental liability law, in which individual property rights, personality rights and health rights are related to individual legal interests with environmental issues. On the other hand, there is also a liability problem that arises when the interests of the environment itself are infringed, not related to individual interests. While these pure environmental interests themselves may be concomitantly, reflexively, and overlapping in the process of protecting their individual interests, these private and public interests do not always overlap, and the latter liability may arise regardless of the former. Therefore, in order to complete the comprehensive and systematic environmental liability law without blind spots, these two types of environmental liability laws should be prepared. In comparison, Germany has an environmental liability law under public law (Umweltschadensgesetz) in addition to the environmental liability law under private law (Umwelthaftungsgesetz). With reference to the German environmental damage law, it claims to enact a environmental damage liability act. The environmental right, which is the right to live in a healthy and pleasant environment, can be guaranteed by equipping not only the private environmental liability law but also the public environmental liability law.