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Environmental Health Legislation
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:20.10.2022 15:08:37
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_060 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Public Health | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Kudeikina | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Public Health and Epidemiology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 9 Kronvalda boulevard, svek rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67338307 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Environmental health, foundations of law, public health. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with the opportunity to get acquainted with the regulatory enactments, their functioning, the main state requirements in the field of environmental protection and public health protection, to learn about the Latvian system of regulatory enactments in the field of environmental protection and public health protection, as well as about the system of public administration in Latvia. To inform students about the main requirements of the European Union and the legal liability applicable in Latvia in cases of breach of regulatory enactments. To promote skills in applying regulatory enactments to deal with specific situations related to environmental protection and environmental health. The study course deals with the regulation of environmental quality, the rational use of natural resources, and special environmental protection. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The regulatory framework in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Analysis of the Latvian regulatory framework for environmental health. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Validity of legislation in Latvia. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Practical analysis of the validity of regulatory enactments in Latvia, problem statement. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The system of regulatory enactments on health protection in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Analysis of the system of regulatory enactments on health protection in Latvia. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Environmental quality regulation. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Regulation of the rational use of natural resources. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Issues in the regulation of the use of natural resources and analysis of issues in the regulation of environmental quality. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Special nature protection. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Legal liability for environmental protection violations in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Examples and analysis of environmental protection violations. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Study of educational literature and legal documents; solving specific cases: 1. Research, presentation and discussion of a topical environmental health protection issue. 2. Situation analysis (solving the given case), assessing the administrative and legal framework of the issue, drafting of the procedural document. 3. Situation analysis (solving the given case) of a violation of environmental health legislation, providing an assessment of the factual circumstances and proposing a solution to the situation. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Participation in classes and solving cases; summary and presentation of the solving progress and judgements made; written examination at the end of the course. The final grade consists of 50% independent work and 50% exam assessment. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will list the regulatory enactments that regulate environmental protection, name the main requirements applicable to public health protection in Latvia; identify the most important terminology used in environmental protection regulatory enactments, name the main regulatory enactments regulating environmental protection and public health in Latvia, describe the operation of European Union legislation in Latvia, name the types of legal liability for violations of law; identify environmental protection and public health institutions, name their functions and activities. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Will identify the relevant regulatory enactments for dealing with a specific legal problem related to environmental protection and environmental health; solve cases. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will discuss the role of regulatory enactments in the field of environmental protection and public health, make judgements on the application of these regulatory enactments; discuss the most important instruments in the field of environmental protection and public health applied in Latvia, analyse the functioning of these instruments and the measures taken in Latvia in the field of environmental protection and public health. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Latvijas Republikas Satversme. LV konstitucionālais likums | ||||||||
| 2 | Vides aizsardzības likums. LV likums | ||||||||
| 3 | Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (2011). Law and ecology: new environmental foundations: Law, Justice and Ecology. Routledge (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 4 | Vide un ilgtspējīga attīstība / Māra Kļaviņa un Jāņa Zaļokšņa redakcijā / (2011). Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kudeikina I., Kaija S. The Damage Caused to the Environment in the Context of the Sustainable Development of Society. | ||||||||
| 2 | MK 04.03.2020. rīkojums Nr.95 "Par nozaru politiku pamatnostādnēm 2021.-2027. gada plānošanas periodam" | ||||||||
| 3 | Krimināllikums. LV likums | ||||||||
| 4 | Administratīvās atbildības likums. LV likums | ||||||||
| 5 | Administratīvā procesa likums. LV likums | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Vides aizsardzības un reģionālās attīstības ministrijas mājas lapa | ||||||||
| 2 | Veselības ministrijas mājas lapa | ||||||||
| 3 | ES portāls | ||||||||
| 4 | Tiesību aktu bāze | ||||||||
