The article is devoted to the study of the issue of legal support for the activities of a territorial community as a subject of environmental information management. The article analyses the legal basis of international and national legislation and some norms in the context of approximation of national legislation to the EU acquis on the disposal of and access to environmental information. The authors of the article have studied the provisions of national legislation from the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine and the principles of the State Environmental Policy Strategy of Ukraine and the provisions of laws containing legal regulation of the status of information and environmental information in general to the provisions defining the powers of entities managing environmental information, the powers of a territorial community as a subject of environmental information management, as well as the powers to use, access, collect and disseminate and restrict environmental information held by the public authorities. The authors thoroughly review the legislative innovations regarding access, dissemination and disposal of environmental information by local self-government bodies. The authors thoroughly examine the legislative innovations regarding access, dissemination and disposal of environmental information by local self-government bodies. In particular, the authors also draw attention to the theoretical and practical aspects of understanding and applying approaches to defining the conceptual and categorical apparatus of environmental information and the subjects of environmental information management at the level of local selfgovernment bodies.

 The purpose of this article is to analyse the international and national legal acts that define a territorial community, in particular, represented by local self-government bodies, as a subject of environmental information management.

The results of the study are based on the analysis of current international and national legislation, provisions of legislative innovations that have not yet entered into force, and the approaches and use of such entities as local governments as environmental information managers. In particular, the authors draw attention to the possibilities of accessing and obtaining data containing environmental information about a territorial community or a part of it, legislative restrictions on the use and disposal of environmental information by local self-government bodies as subjects of environmental information management, access to data on the state of the environment during the martial law regime, and the need for greater accessibility to official data containing environmental information about a territorial community. The authors provide an example based on the results of a comprehensive study of the openness and proper legal support of entities managing environmental information, including the study of the openness of data with environmental information at the level of local councils. Based on the conclusions regarding the openness of environmental information data at the level of local governments, the authors emphasise the urgent need to expand access to environmental information, in particular, to implement measures for accounting and environmental restoration of territorial communities that have suffered irreparable environmental damage by the aggressor state.

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