This paper deals with the topic of criminal offences against the environment. I would like to point out that in the beginning I was not familiar with the given topic and the overall research and process was very demanding. Therefore, the paper is processed in a way that explains the topic itself more closely. The topic covered in this paper is still very unresearched and vague as well as unfamiliar to the wider population, with emphasis on students of legal sciences. The environment and its criminal law protection connect a lot of other knowledge that is necessary to define this type of right. Precisely for this reason „green criminology“ as it is still called, needs additional perfecting and new knowledge in the field of legal sciences. In this way its implementation, criminal law protection and sanctioning would be facilitated. In the very beginning of this paper environmental criminality and its main components are explained in order to understand the way in which it is connected to law. After a general representation further problem solving follows. How environmental criminality is implemented in the Republic of Croatia as well as the European Union will be explained, certain legislative and organizational difficulties will be stated. In addition, the bodies participating in the paper as well as the legislation in which it is contained will be processed. Emphasis will be placed on statistical data of this type of criminal act which will be analyzed through each year and an attempt will be made to obtain certain information and conclusions based on them. In the conclusion the results achieved through work analysis will be defined, that is, answers to the most important questions connected to the problem of this topic. The objective of this paper is to raise awareness among students of administrative law regarding environmental criminality and its components.