Abstract
Draft laws of Ukraine towards the amendments to the Penal Code of Ukraine aimed to overcome the pandemic disease COVID-19, caused by Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 are analyzed, namely: "On Amendments to the Penal Code (concerning the criminal liability for violation of the established procedure for vaccination of citizens against infectious diseases)" registration № 4647 26/01/2021 and "On Amendments to the Penal Code of Ukraine in terms of liability for forgery of documents about preventive vaccination" registration № 6084 23/09/21.
 Some disadvantages of the following drafts are identified: 1) importation into Ukraine of a vaccine not registered in the State Register of medicine products is currently considered as an illegal activity; 2) placing into turnover of an unregistered medical product is a falsification and entails criminal liability under the provisions of the current article 321-1 of the Penal Code of Ukraine. Therefore, it makes no sense to criminalize actions of this nature; 3) the level of public danger of the proposed criminal offense (Article 321-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) is not sufficient for the existence of the sanction Part 1 – imprisonment and its classification as "minor crimes"; 5) establishment of separate (special) criminal liability for forgery of documents related to preventive vaccinations is an excessive criminalization; 6) introduction of the proposed criminal offense (Article 321-3 of the Penal Code of Ukraine) to Section XIII "Criminal offenses in the sphere of drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors and other criminal offenses against public health" Special part of the PenalCode of Ukraine does not take into account principles of the existing criminal law doctrine on delimitation and definition of the object of criminal law protection.
 The inexpediency of detailing the forms of the objective side of the proposed criminal offense (Article 321-3 of the Penal Code of Ukraine) by introducing the concepts of "dissemination" and "implementation", as well as the introduction of a broader understanding of the term "use" as a «violation of a prohibition to use (sales and implementation ") is established;
 The ways to overcome the identified disadvantages and improve the norms of the analyzed bills are pointed out. It is concluded that it is impossible to adopt amendments in this form to the Penal Code of Ukraine.
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