摘要：The article considers main problems of defining environmental entrepreneurship primarily as a legal phenomenon. The aim of the article is to search for meanings and mechanisms for understanding the legal category of "environmental entrepreneurship", to identify its content, to characterize subjects and to outline main directions of development of legislation governing environmental and entrepreneurial relations. The leading approach to the study of this problem is dialectics, analysis, synthesis, deduction, formal legal method and comparative legal method. Conclusions: The analysis can contribute to creation of developed environmental-entrepreneurial relations in Russia, which is achieved by building a verified conceptual and categorical apparatus, determining the model of legal regulation. The mechanisms of legal regulation require creation of special law and establishment of principle of priority of environmental organization of economic activity as the basic principle of entrepreneurship in general and determinant of legal regulation of environmental entrepreneurship in particular.
