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
land stimulation is developed. The list of parameters that characterize the structure of the
land, their technical and agro-ecological condition, and the degree of anthropogenic load,
which may be the subject of research in the field of environmental auditing of economic
efficiency and environmentally sustainable land use under conditions of drainage, is given.