PECULIARITIES OF IMPROVEMENT OF NATIONAL LEGISLATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

Abstract

The article reveals the main directions of improving the national legislation on administrative responsibility. It has been established that the current administrative-tort legislation of Ukraine does not meet the needs of today, either in content or in form. Its norms require a radical revision, and the systematization of legislation on administrative responsibility is the only way to improve the work of legal entities empowered to bring individuals to administrative responsibility. The following problems of a theoretical and practical nature that impede the improvement of administrative tort law: 1) lack of a clear understanding of the legal nature of proceedings in cases of administrative offenses; 2) tendencies towards refusal from the synthesis of material and procedural norms in the codified normative legal act on administrative responsibility; 3) duplication in the administrative-tort legislation of ideas, principles and provisions that ensure the effectiveness of criminal liability; 4) artificial limitation in the legislation of the circle of persons to whom administrative penalties can be applied; 5) imperfection of the procedure for bringing a person to administrative responsibility; 6) ineffective and unreasonably extended system of administrative penalties; 7) an imperfect and ineffective system of bodies authorized to bring persons to administrative responsibility. It was argued that administrative responsibility is, in fact, a prompt reaction of the state or other authorized bodies to violations of the law, and therefore “simplified proceedings” should be widely used in addition to “ordinary proceedings”. However, over the years of Ukraine’s independence, “simplified proceedings” have gradually disappeared from the law enforcement activities of administrative and judicial bodies. It is emphasized that the specificity of administrative responsibility lies in the fact that the subject, who has the right to initiate an administrative offense case, is often the subject considering the case on the merits. Therefore, knowledge of the material part of administrative tort law helps such a subject to determine the preliminary qualification of an offense, and knowledge of its procedural part – to consider the case and impose on a person one of the types of administrative penalties. It has been proved that “simplified proceedings” should be the key procedural form of bringing persons to administrative responsibility. It is noted that the codification of administrative tort law is a painstaking and systematic work in which well-known scientists who have been working on the problem of administrative responsibility for many years should participate.