Annotation. The article is devoted to the study of the legal aspects of the implementation and effectiveness of the environmental audit in the concept of the development of sustainable nature management as an important mechanism of environmental security.
The article outlines the main areas of interrelated and interdependent environmental
performance of the enterprise, which form the structure of management - environmental
management and auditing company. Established that multi-business enterprise can not at this
stage to formulate a systematic approach to its implementation without adequate system of
ecologically based management. Determined that the environmental activities of the company
and the environment - the only problem is its comprehensive sustainable development. The
National and international approaches to the definition of environmental audit are
analyzed. Established, that some domestic scholars in their studies are based on the definition
provided by the Law of Ukraine “On Environmental Audit”. It is proved that an
environmental audit is closely linked to sustainable agricultural environmental management
supporting and plays an important point in its information basis. Own approach to the
interpretation of environmental audit in the context of the rational agricultural use of drained