Fighting the smuggling of strategically important resources for environmental safety ensuring

Vladislava Zaigraeva,V Kankhva

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202125805019

Abstract

The international illegal trade of rare flora and fauna objects has long been an acute international issue. At the same time, a significant volume of smuggled rare species of animals and plants falls on Russian Federation. In order to counter criminal encroachments against rare and endangered species of animals and aquatic biological resources, amendments were made to the Russian criminal legislation, including Article 226.1. of Criminal Code of Russian Federation, in accordance with which criminal liability is established for the smuggling of especially valuable wild animals and aquatic biological resources listed in the Red Book of Russian Federation and (or) protected by international treaties of Russian Federation. At the same time, the imperfection of legal norms governing liability for smuggling significantly reduces the level of their protection. These circumstances require constant improvement of measures to counter smuggling, including criminal law improvement.

Highlights

In the conditions of free movement of a huge number of various categories of goods and resources across state and customs borders, due to the liberalization of foreign economic activity and the intensive development of integration processes, environmental issues acquire special relevance.We share the position of individual authors that smuggling is a threat in every country [1]
The processes of globalization lead to the free movement of goods outside the customs border by hiding them from customs control, which poses a significant threat to the economic security of the state and requires a search for measures to counter the smuggling of goods [2]
Effective achievement of goals for the suppression of crime largely depends on the construction of a system for implementation of norms of law [5], the accuracy of the legislators’ formulation of dispositions of criminal law norms [6]

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Introduction

In the conditions of free movement of a huge number of various categories of goods and resources across state and customs borders, due to the liberalization of foreign economic activity and the intensive development of integration processes, environmental issues acquire special relevance.We share the position of individual authors that smuggling is a threat in every country [1]. In the conditions of free movement of a huge number of various categories of goods and resources across state and customs borders, due to the liberalization of foreign economic activity and the intensive development of integration processes, environmental issues acquire special relevance. An important role in the protection of the environment, protection of flora and fauna is played by the customs authorities, whose functions include identifying and suppressing the smuggling of strategically important goods and resources. Strategic goods and resources include a large number of "environmental goods" that are the country's national wealth such as timber, oil and oil products, precious metals, sturgeon meat, amber, flora and fauna, ozone-depleting substances, furs and others

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