Optimization of environmental monitoring as a strategic component of economic security of Ukraine

The aim of the article. The aim of this article is to analyze situation in the governmental environmental monitoring system and its improve of control over natural resources for economic security.The results of the analysis. The organizational structure of environmental monitoring is determined by a number of documents, including CMU On Approval of State Environmental Monitoring System according to which the environmental monitoring carried out by: the Ministry of Environment, the State Service for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, State Committee, State Water Management Committee, State Committee for Land Resources, State Committee on Housing State Committee for Geology and use of mineral resources.The budget of environmental monitoring has been considered and analyzed. The conclusion is that financing is ineffective and insufficient. The GIS, database for the system of environmental monitoring will be on line open. The open access to these data can also become the instrument of control for international and civil organizations and business structures.The structure of environmental monitoring system is inefficient. The soviet system of parameters has not been harmonized with European standards. Eight departments which provide data decide themselves what and where they will measure using the available equipment, and do not follow the provisions of normative documents. The system of bilateral agreements is inefficient instrument. The Ministry of Nature is not the owner of information, it is only the user. The laws, or a draft of laws concerning the system of environmental monitoring, which will include the real conditions of budget, international requirements to environmental information and equipment do not prepared.Conclusions and directions of further researches. The conclusion is made that it is expedient to revise the system structure of the environmental monitoring as the element of the system of providing state control. Proceeding from todays information streams is determined by consumers demands, and these are, first of all, international organizations and public, the modernization strategy should be developed of the available observation networks and real volumes of finance for the recent ten years. Theoptimized system of the environmental monitoring is the extremely necessary information base in the system of liabilities of Ukraine, the Kyoto protocol in particular, and other agreements.Unfortunately, the governmental environmental monitoring system has several problems:1. Environmental monitoring system uses physically and morally outdated equipment belonging to several structures.2. Funding for environmental monitoring is an average of 10% of the planned use.3. Observations are conducted in violation of the existing regulatory framework.4. Number of observations and their locations are not representative.5. The environmental monitoring results are not tied to maps.6. The monitoring system does not perform reliably verified legally justified data.7.Monitoring, in fact, cannot be legal basis for control over the use of natural resources for economic security.