The present study comprises, besides law related to environmental statistics, agricultural environment protection, environmental statistics, law related to statistics and EU law. Regarding one of the four main tasks of statistics, namely to reflect the state and changing of the natural and built environment (according to Section 1 of the Hungarian Act on Statistics in force), the study aims at underlining new aspects of legal statistics, and highlighting foreign examples, as well as new tasks of the Hungarian law on statistics, originating from duties of the Hungarian Republic within the reaches of the European Union. Legal disposition should be completed by legal sanction: therefore, a short review of criminal law and police crimes in connection with the law of statistics is discussed alike.