The Multi-National Corporation Legal Responsibility For Environment And Its Regulation

Multinational company is with the continuous development of social economy and the product, is the product of the monopoly capitalism stage. After the second world war, due to the international political, economic, stable, modern communicationinformation, transportation and other related technology development, exchange and cooperation between countries and countries increasingly close, the multinational companies to get more benefit, go abroad to foreign direct investment to set up subsidiaries operating in developing countries. Its brings great wealth to the society at the same time, due to the production of environmental events also bring irreparable big harm to the society, especially to the host country on the huge damage caused by pollution.Multinational companies forced ourselves to capital and technology advantages of the host country in order to develop their economic pressure, given the super national treatment. But multinational companies at the same time of these rights abuse their rights to host countries caused great damage. Multinational companies in the history of the most serious pollution caused by the Bhopal disaster events took place in India. The disaster to India’s environment and caused great harm, cause the attention of the world from all walks of life. Especially the reflection of the government of India. Because of China’s reform and opening up over the decades, attracted many foreign companies to invest the development of the companies in our country directly set up a subsidiary in operating activities, also led to a series of environmental problems, in order to protect the natural environment of our country and national health, harmonious development, our government must to regulation, according to the different degree of the illegal and the consequences for the corresponding environmental legal responsibility:administrative environment legal liability, civil liability and criminal liability.The research object of this article is some of the companies in the developed countries to invest directly in China, according to the law in our country set up a subsidiary in business activities of multinational companies. The whole article is divided into five parts, the main content is as follows:In the first part, the Multi-National Corporation, environmental, legal responsibility, legal responsibility for environment, legal responsibility for environment and its characteristics and other basic concepts are defined. Then, Multi-National Corporation environment legal liability and its environmental responsibility and other the relationship between the company and the host country is analyzed.In the second part, the Multi-National Corporation legal responsibility origin for environment, theoretical foundation and the urgency are discussed.At the same time, sufficient theoretical support for corporate environmental legal liability is provided.In the third part, Analysis of the environmental legal liability for multinational companies outside of regulation and the enlightenment to our country enacted law. Mainly analyzes the international society for multinational company regulation and the regulation for multinational companies in developed countries, as well as the legislative experience for reference to our countryIn the fourth part, China’s current regulation on Multi-National Corporation’s legal responsibility for environment and the Multi-National Corporation’s current status and existing problems are analyzed respectively, from the environmental civil liability, to the environmental administrative responsibility and criminal environmental responsibility.basing on three aspects, the deficiency in our country’s existing environmental legal liability of the Multi-National Corporation can be found out.In the fifth part, based on analysis of China’s environmental liability of administrative, legal regulation of Multi-National Corporation, criminal problems are put forward to improve the environmental legal liability, and improve the legal system.