Licensing activities in the sphere of turnover of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.

Abstract

The object of the study is a set of legal relations that develop in the process of carrying out licensing activities in the field of production and turnover of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, which continues to be one of the most criminalized areas of the Russian economy, the high proportion of licensing regulation of which is due to stable profitability and turnover of goods, the presence of stable demand, as well as risks associated with damage to life or health citizens, the influence of alcoholization of the population on the demographic situation in the country, its close relationship with crime. The author examines in detail the features of the permissive impact on the regulated industry, paying attention to its legal basis and content, the main problems and areas of improvement, which is covered by the subject of this work. The novelty is distinguished by the author's position, which explains the specifics of the administrative and legal regime of the turnover of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products in the context of a combination of various forms of licensing activities affecting economic entities – first of all, we are talking about licensing. The progressive complication of the public-legal elements of alcohol market regulation aimed at protecting common (public) interests, which do not exclude fiscal interest, is carried out in the direction of detailing the order of turnover of such products and the conditions of licensees' activities. The author notes the undeniably positive impact on the state of legality in the implementation of licensing activities in the sphere of turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products of the tendency to improve its legal framework, unification and centralization of legal regulation. At the same time, some of its shortcomings have been identified, reflecting the peculiarities of licensing activities for the production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products based on the norms of a special law.