In the paper are described the results of the study on the development of environmental laws and normative system of the Republic of Moldova in the years of independence, which resulted with new reforms of all areas of the national economy from a socialist economy to a market economy through the transition phase. Problems of the environment protection are very acute in the Republic of Moldova, a country with high density of human population and mainly agrarian with old traditions in agriculture. The aim of paper is the analysis of present state, the characteristics of database and to highlight the problems of development of normative-legislative framework in the Republic of Moldova. Objects of research were: environmental legislative and normative-methodical bases in the Republic of Moldova, the European Union and Russia; Agenda 21, environmental policies, strategies, programs and other existed in the Republic of Moldova. Research Methods: The study data banks, catalogs and other official materials of the international and national environmental organizations; collection of materials and formation of databases, selective comparative analysis of environmental legislative-normative acts of the Republic of Moldova and the European Union and Russia. Results: In the base of the study, selection and complement ongoing screening were created databases on environmental legislative-normative acts of the Republic of Moldova, which at 17-th anniversary of independence - 27 August 2008 shows the following: Convention and adjacent international documents on which Moldova is a party, respectively 26 and 21, Laws of the Republic of Moldova - 78; Decisions of Parliament - 24; acts subordinated to laws (Government Decisions) - 112; Strategies - 10; Concepts - 8; Programs 9; Plans - 5, Acts of the Central Authority of the Environment – 22, Standards - 650. Also there were studied the databases of legal acts of the EU and Russia. In the paper presented the characteristics regarding chronology, structure, some results on the qualitative and comparative analysis of environmental legislative-normative acts in the Republic of Moldova and their correspondence with the requirements of EU environmental policy and sustainable development of the Republic of Moldova. In the final part of the paper are presented some conclusions and proposals on the development of environmental legislation and norms in the Republic of Moldova in accordance with European and international ones.