Through the paper “The environmental policy and the development of the socio-economic systems” is assumed to solve a generous and, at the same time, difficult theme, in line with the overall aim of increasing the efficiency of the management of the socio-ecological complex based on the integration of environmental policy with that of the socio-economic development.
Essentially, it sought to formulate answers to the following three issues: strengthening the trends of harmonization of environmental policy with the ways and means of socio-economic growth and development; presenting the structure of tools which operationalize the environmental policy from the point of view of complementarity and of prevalence; the possibilities of expression, measurement of integrating the environmental policy and the socio-economic development one by means of indicators.