On the Issue of the Legal Regulation of the Concept of Agricultural Producer
The article analyzes the current legislation in the field of regulation of legal status of agricultural producers. The authors consider the concepts and the main features of agricultural producers found in the legislation of the Russian Federation. For this purpose, the authors analyse chiefly the legislation on development of agriculture, as well as the civil legislation, the tax law, the legislation on agricultural cooperation, on peasant farms, and on financial improvement of agricultural producers. The article raises the issue of legislative regulation of a concept of agricultural producer. There is a nonuniformity in the definition of agricultural producer in regulations. This notion includes various list of subjects, depending on a source where it is consolidated. The authors propose to include a unified definition of agricultural producer in all the regulations, and this definition should meet all the features of the agricultural producer.