Abstract
The article deals with the role of civil law in the environmental protection. Even though private law plays a very marginal role on the domain of public environmental law, some crucial and important consequences appear.
Especially, ownership of the parts and elements of the environment has influence on the protection of those parts and on the remedy of environmental damage. The new Czech Civil Code plays important role in this domain, but there are some problems with the provisions concerning animals, plants and neighbourhoods rights.
Even though we must take into account civil law consecuences of environmental protection, environmental law remains fundsamentally and basically in the domein of public law.