International legal regulation of transboundary environmental pollution

Abstract

This article deals with the problems of transboundary pollution of environment which currently acquired global significance. These environmental problems pose a real threat to the external environmental security of the country, consideration of which requires an immediate solution. The Provisions of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, Helsinki Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, norms of the Water Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 9, 2003, providing for the concept of «transboundary waters».