The drafts of substantive and procedural codes on administrative offenses prepared by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and subjected to public discussion in 2020 constitute a step forward in the development of relevant legislation. At the same time, the draft code developers were constrained in many issues by the thinking inertia and legislative practice, as a result of which they transferred a number of shortcomings of the current Administrative Code of the Russian Federation to the drafts. In addition, the drafts contain many serious drawbacks. The refusal of the codes’ drafters to adopt similar constructions from close branches of legislation — criminal and criminal procedure — result in the fundamental failure of the authors of the draft Administrative Code of the Russian Federation and the Procedural Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. As a result, the draft of the substantive Administrative Code lacks categories of administrative offenses, clear and understandable rules for imposing administrative penalties for a combination of offenses; the draft Procedural Administrative Code declares establishing of objective truth (which is not included even in the criminal process!) as its objective; there is no overdue simplified procedure for considering cases. The paper substantiates the suggestion to proceed not to recognize as judicial proceedings consideration of administrative cases by courts. The separate regulation of the procedure for consideration of cases by courts and other bodies of administrative jurisdiction provided for by the draft Procedural Administrative Code of the Russian Federation represents a fundamental mistake and, in addition, it abounds in largely arbitrary differences in the regulation of the same issues and even in the presentation of similar norms. The drafts have a large number of legal and technical shortcomings (unnecessary double numbering of articles, inclusion of an array of procedural norms in the draft of the substantive Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, etc.). There is an obvious need for the most serious revision of the draft laws, and this time revision has to be done as openly as possible and with the involvement of recognized professionals in the field of administrative responsibility and administrative procedure.