Regardless of the existence of significant differences at the national and regional level, plans, programs, actions and improvements in environmental protection are a global problem, which requires global solutions. Modern society must faster and better understand the warning of scientists and experts about the state of the environment, ie. the fact that there are fewer and fewer free, original and unpolluted environments, with a staggering tendency to further decline. On the other hand, the endangered, degraded and devastated ones are more and more, with a tendency to grow and much faster than it seems at first glance, faster than the science from the end of our century could have imagined. At the same time, it is important to point out that by disturbing the ecological balance and ecosystem, the future of man and his survival is endangered. The subject of the analysis is the legal regulation of environmental protection in the Republic of Serbia and the European Union, both in the theoretical and practical domain of its application, and therefore special attention will be paid to regulations in the field of environmental protection.