SOME ISSUES OF IMPROVING THE RUSSIAN LEGISLATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
The article reviews the prospects of reforming the legislation on administrative responsibility based on the round table report “Legislation on administrative responsibility: modern state, development prospects” in the Far Eastern Federal University on April 9, 2019. As of 2019, over 3000 changes (amendments) had been introduced into the Russian Federation Code on administrative responsibility; administrative responsibility norms can nowadays be found in many federal laws; the Code contains a lot of blanket norms; law enforcers have an insufficient knowledge of the legislation thus hindering the law-enforcing function of the legislation on administrative responsibility. Based on the material of court and law-enforcement practices, it is suggested to introduce the initiatives on implementing a special public qualifying examination of the law-enforcers for the legislation of administrative responsibility, strict categories of the corporate body’s guilt and office holder’s guilt that would avoid punishing two people for committing the same administrative offence, liberalization of administrative responsibility on administrative offences committed first time including reducing this responsibility to admonition. The author of the article is sure that reforming the federal and regional legislations on administrative responsibility in the Russian Federation has to be complex and switch its function from punishment to preventing the law enforcers from misusing their authority; it also has to create the conditions for normalizing the functioning of commercial and noncommercial organizations in the Russian Federation and increase the level of business climate protection in the country.