Social rights and the environment in decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights

Abstract

The article analyses the issue of protecting social rights from the perspective of environmental protection, especially the right to a clean environment established in the practice of law. And although this right does not have normative anchorage in international law, its presence is visible in the interpretation of social rights. The decisions of the European Committee of Human Rights were discussed, which led to the conclusion that there is currently a phenomenon of human rights expansionism in the area of the link between social rights and the right to a clean environment. The methods used in the research will be characteristic of the methods used in the social sciences, and in particular in law: the functional method, the formal-dogmatic method, the comparative legal method and the descriptive method.