Legal Regulation Of Relations Research Articles

Cannabidiol and terpenes from hemp – ingredients for future foods and processing technologies

Hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) is a broadly grown plant worldwide. In recent years, the cannabidiol (CBD) and terpene species in hemp have drawn increasing research interests due to their human health benefits and pharmaceutical values such as anti-anxiety, pain-relief, relaxation promotion, anti-inflammation and antimicrobial activities. However, the research and application of hemp CBD and terpenes in food systems are scarcely reported, because of various legal regulations, consumer basis and technological challenges. In addition, processing technologies of hemp such as drying, extraction and purification for stable productions of high quality and food-safe CBD and terpene for food purposes have not been extensively studied, lacking thorough reviews. Therefore, in this comprehensive review, the basic characteristics of hemp CBD and terpenes, and their related legal regulations around the world are summarized; the status and technological challenges in the incorporation of hemp CBD and terpenes in food products, and in processing technologies of hemp biomass are identified and discussed; potential solutions, future trends, and research needs are highlighted. The findings from this review may excite more food-related research on hemp processing and CBD/terpenes applications in foods. It can also help the hemp industry to improve the processing efficiency of hemp as a valuable bioresource, and for food manufacturers to shape their paths to use hemp CBD and terpenes as future functional food ingredients.

Copyright Regulation of Relations with regard to Software: Current State and Perspectives

— The legal regulation of relations about software (computer programs) is conducted mainly in two directions: copyright and patent law. But despite lengthy discussions in scientific circles in almost all countries, there is no final and single solution to this issue. Historically, the model of copyright protection of the object under study offers a cheaper and faster procedure than the model of protection of software by patent law. Patent protection requires a rather expensive and lengthy examination of software for world (absolute) novelty, during which the object itself may become obsolete and become unpopular with potential users. Therefore, the copyright regime for the protection of software has received preferential recognition. Accordingly, the article attempts to investigate the problems of the existing in the world copyright model of software protection and the possibility of patenting them. Keywords— software, copyright, patent law, object of protection

Actual directions of improving legislation in the field of biological and genetic technologies

One of the trends of modern state policy is the development of biological and genetic, aimed at solving socio-economic problems and problems caused by global challenges and threats associated with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, reduced biodiversity, and other negative manifestations. In these conditions, there is a need to revise the conceptual approaches to the legal regulation of relations in the field of the use of biological and genetic technologies, taking into account natural and social relationships. The article shows the need to apply to these relations the ecosystem approach, the concept of sustainable development, the interdisciplinary approach “Unified Health”, four “bio”, an integral part of which is to ensure safety (environmental, biological, genetic, sanitary-epidemiological, biosphere). The issues of improving the Russian legislation in the field of application of biological and genetic technologies on an intersectoral basis in connection with the environmental, sanitary and epidemiological, natural resource, agricultural and other industries are considered.The directions of harmonization of the domestic regulatory framework with international norms and treaties, including the assessment of the risks of possible harmful effects of the use of biological and genetic technologies on human health and the environment, are proposed. In Russian legislation, it is necessary to legalize the concepts of “risk assessment”, “risk factors”, as well as to determine the procedure for assessing the potentially and really harmful effects of GMOs and other results of the use of genetic and biotechnologies on human health and the environment.

Pryznachennia trudovoho prava ta prava sotsialnoho zabezpechennia

In the field of social law, the problem of the purpose of labour law and social security law is covered, which is understood through its spirit, meaning and value. It is emphasized that the change of philosophical-axiological, socio-economic and political-legal paradigms of society, de-Sovietization of labour law and social security law, the search for balance of interests between employee, employer and the state, the principle of solidarity as a basic principle of compulsory social insurance, the responsibility of the state for the effective functioning of the social security system requires a revision of the content of the main approaches to their interpretation and understanding. Attention is drawn to the fact that the most important task of de-Sovietization of labour law and social security law is to prevent the liquidation of the welfare state, i.e. to remove social protection functions from the state and provide for those who cannot earn a living and maintain an acceptable standard of living. It is substantiated that simultaneously with the transformation of relations in the field of labour there are interrelated changes in the legal regulation of relations on social security. Thus, it is noted that modern realities influence the new perception of social security, through the prism of mutual obligations of both the state and the population. This applies to formal employment, payment of «white» wages, payment of insurance premiums, and so on. It is emphasized that the main purpose of social security law is to create such legal norms that will be aimed at ensuring a sufficient standard of living. An important role in this is played by a stable, socially-oriented economy, because social support of the population, as a rule, is realized through the allocation of appropriate funds. It is concluded that the purpose of labour law and social security law, their social value, is to regulate labour and social security relations in order to give them a clear direction to create the necessary conditions for the realization of individual rights and freedoms through the state position on legal instruments of social protection. The state position in social law should be aimed at ensuring that the law provides social protection, addresses issues of social tension in society between different socio-demographic groups and the state.

Peculiarities of Legal Relations in the Field of Personnel Training of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

The scientific article highlights the peculiarities of legal relations in the area of training of personnel of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. It is emphasized that the change in approaches to the training of personnel of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine applies to all types and areas of its implementation, but the most active process of modernization is in the field of higher military education. Amendments to the laws of Ukraine on the regulation of legal relations in the field of higher military education are aimed at updating the training of specialists in accordance with current challenges and threats to national security of Ukraine in general and its border security in particular. They influence the formation of new connections between the participants in the educational process, change their status, as well as the scope of rights and responsibilities. It is emphasized that legal relations in the field of training of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine are formed between entities, the composition of which depends on the form of participation in this activity and tasks defined by the Constitution of Ukraine and other regulations. In particular, such entities include public authorities endowed with general and special competencies, as well as individual entities — scientific and scientific-pedagogical staff of educational institutions, students, graduates, etc. It is emphasized that in the field of training of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine both general and special features of administrative and legal relations are manifested. It is concluded that the legal status of the participants of legal relations in the field of training of personnel of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine determined by normative legal acts is complex, diverse and even somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, the statutory scope of powers of public authorities of general and special competence creates the necessary conditions for the integration of military education in the educational space of the state and improve the quality of training, and on the other — certain powers of public authorities of special competence to some extent narrow the autonomy of higher military institutions and the scope of rights of students and military professionals in the exercise of their constitutional rights.

Administrative-Legal Issues of the Movement of Detained Vehicles To a Specialized Parking Lot and Their Storage

The subject of the study is the norms of the legislation of the Russian Federation on administrative offenses, which establish the powers of the subjects of the Russian Federation to determine the procedure for moving detained vehicles to a specialized parking lot and storing them. The object of the study is public relations related to the organization of the activities of service providers for the movement and (or) storage of detained vehicles, as well as the selection of these service providers. Within the framework of the article, the Author presents an analysis of federal and regional legislation in terms of the implementation of powers by public legal entities in this area of relations. The problems of the implementation of federal legislation, as well as the main approaches, similarities and differences of the "advanced" legal regulation of the relations under consideration at the level of the subjects of the Russian Federation are noted. The existing legislative models for involving local self-government bodies in the exercise of the authority to organize specialized parking lots for the storage of detained vehicles are analyzed. In the research paper, the Author presents options for determining the performers of services for the movement and (or) storage of detained vehicles, analyzes the legal grounds for the implementation of each of them, taking into account the existing law enforcement, including judicial practice. For the purpose of unified legal regulation of relations on the movement and (or) storage of detained vehicles, aimed at implementing measures to ensure the proceedings in the case of an administrative offense in the form of detention of a vehicle, the Author formulated proposals for the legislative consolidation of the federal authorities of the authority to determine the procedure for selecting performers of services for the movement and (or) storage of detained vehicles. To ensure equal opportunities for economic entities to carry out activities in the market of services for the movement and (or) storage of detained vehicles, the Author proposed, within the framework of the above procedure, to determine the requirements for the performers of these services, as well as the criteria for their competitive selection. At the same time, the paper substantiates the need for mandatory application of the territorial criterion for the selection of performers of these services for the movement and (or) storage of detained vehicles, taking into account not only the boundaries of the relevant municipality, but also the distance of specialized parking lots from socially significant objects.

Codification Problems of Legislation on Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population of the Russian Federation

The current problems of administrative-legal regulation in the field of health protection and ensuring the sanitary-epidemiological well-being of the population of the Russian Federation are investigated, eurrent trends in its development and problems of systematization are considered. Based on the analysis of statistieal data and the practice of applying international legal acts regulating the issues of interaction in the field of preventing the spread of dangerous infectious diseases, the conclusions and recommendations of the World Health Organization and other international organizations, proposals are formulated for further improvement of national legislation in the field of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, methods are proposed its systematization and options for possible codification. The features of the mechanism of administrative and legal regulation of relations that develop during the implementation of state sanitary and epidemiological supervision in the conditions of the spread of dangerous diseases are analyzed. A new model for the development of sectoral legislation in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare is proposed, based on modern criteria and principles of systematization of regulatory legal acts that ensure sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population and protection of public health. The main versions of draft model laws in the form of codified legal acts aimed at improving the activities of executive authorities and their officials performing the functions of state regulation and sanitary and epidemiological supervision in the studied sphere of relations are submitted for discussion.

The Experience of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China

The article reveals the problem of the correlation of national security, state and security, analyzes the National security Strategies of the Russian Federation in 2015 and 2021. Attention is focused on the absence of a separate strategic planning document on ensuring state security in the Russian Federation, as well as a legal definition of the term «state security». The authors have studied the experience of legal regulation of relations related to ensuring state security in the People's Republic of China: the Law «On State Security» is analyzed from the point of view of its structure and content, the main advantages and disadvantages of this normative act are highlighted. This regulatory legal act traces the consistency and clarity of the wording, indicates the obligation of citizens of the People's Republic of China to ensure state security.

LEGAL REGULATION OF MOST DANGEROUS MICROORGANISMS STRAINS HANDLING

The statutory basis of Ukraine on the treatment of strains of most dangerous microorganisms has been analyzed, and the terminology important for further understanding of the issue has been clarified. The aim of the paper is to study the state of legal regulation in Ukraine of relations in the field of treatment of strains of especially dangerous microorganisms, to pro- vide analysis of the current legislation of Ukraine in this area, as well as the practice of its application. Theoretical bases of legal support of legitimation of activity in this sphere, including that for the purpose of protection of biological safety have been established. The necessity of legal regulation of participants of relations concerning treatment of strains of especially dangerous microorganisms activity has been substantiated. The current state of legal regulation of relations in the field of strain management requires, given the intersectoral nature of the isssue, consideration of the creation of a single intersectoral authority for the supervision of hazardous biological objects. Such a authority may not only be a licensing authority, but also responsible for the introduction of a register of owners of hazardous biological objects that are not economic entities (for example, individuals – owners of collections of such biological objects).

“Architecture” of Civil Registration: Text and Digital Format

The author has attempted to show that in the context of building information society the format of its management changes, and law is being transformed accordingly as the main social regulator. Traditional state institutions are being modernized including the sector of registry office. The civil status record as the “primary cell” of the Unified State Register has been transformed from a simple text into an electronic one. The organizational and legal basis for the change in the format of the civil status act was a whole block of normative legal acts of various legal force. At the same time, the adoption of methodological and technical standards is required, without which it is impossible to form the maintenance of act records in a new digital format. We consider the need for the modernization of the entire system of state registration of civil status acts to update the legal terminology used in the field of legal regulation of relations in the field of civil registration. Many terms from everyday life become legal categories in information law, and need official and doctrinal interpretation (“digital landscape,” “digital hygiene”, etc.). It is for this reason that the conceptual legal apparatus is objectively subject to renewal. In this article, the author substantiates the advisability of applying the term architecture to a civil registration in digital format.

Russian President and local self-government: the evolution of relationships

The subject. An attempt is made to analyze the evolution of the relationship between the Russian Presidents and local self-government in modern Russia over the past 30 years.The methodology of the research is based on the application of the historical method and the method of comparative legal analysis of normative legal acts of the Russian Federation of different years.The purpose of the article is to confirm or dispute hypothesis that the President's relations with local self-government developed non-linearly and contradictory on the different stages.The main results, scope of application. The paper examines the dynamics of the relationship between the Russian Presidents and local self-government, determines the five stages of the development of such relations and their characteristic features, as well as the prospects for these relations after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020.Stage 1. The absence of specific regulatory legal provisions on the participation of the President in local self-government issues and the actual practice of their interaction (July 1991 – October 1993).Stage 2. Arbitrary or authoritarian President’s participation in local self-government issues (October 1993 – August 1995). This stage is connected with the period of the constitutional crisis of 1993 and is characterized, first of all, by two decrees of the Russian President directly changing the provisions of the Law of the Russian Federation on Local Self-Government of 1991.Stage 3. Bringing the powers of the President in the field of local self-government in accordance with the Russian Constitution of 1993, the approval by the President of the main directions of state policy in the field of local self – government development in the Russian Federation, the creation of the Council for Local Self-Government under the President of the Russian Federation (August 1995 – August 2000).Stage 4. Strengthening the role of the President in the field of local self-government. The beginning of this stage is connected with the coming to power of the new Russian President (August 2000 – July 2020). So far, this is the longest stage in our chronology. This stage is characterized by additional regulation by the President of certain point issues in the field of organization and implementation of local self-government, directly provided for by federal law. Stage 5. The integration of local self-government bodies into a single system of public power and the receipt by the Russian President of hidden, virtually unlimited powers in the field of local self-government (from July 2020 to the present). The starting point of this stage was the adoption of amendments to the Russian Constitution in 2020.Conclusions. The interaction between the Russian President and local self-government developed in a zigzag pattern: from the complete absence of contacts to the direct intervention of the Russian President in the legal regulation of relations in the field of local self– government, violating and actually canceling the legislative regulation of these relations in 1993-1995. From bringing these relations into line with the Russian Constitution of 1993, which proclaimed the organizational independence of local self-government, to strengthening the role of the Russian President and regulating certain issues in the field of organization and implementation of local self-government. The expansion of the powers of the Russian President in connection with the amendments to the Russian Constitution in 2020 actually means an aside from the organizational independence of local self-government and the integration of local self-government bodies into a single system of public authorities. In this regard, the question arises: do the above amendments mean an actual return to the second stage of the development of relations between the Russian President and local selfgovernment in the period of 1993-1995, when the use of "hidden (implied)" powers of the President was allowed, and, consequently, theoretically unlimited participation of the Russian President in local self-government issues?

Specific Features of Police Care Regarding the Minors

The article is focused on the problems of legal regulation of preventive police action – police care. The authors have carried out the analysis of scientific works, the authors of which studied the peculiarities of the procedure of police care in regard to minors. The newly introduced legal institution of “police care” has been characterized; the legal status of a child has been determined. The authors have established the qualities of a police officer to effectively ensure the rights and interests of children. The authors have provided the relevant recommendations for improving the regulation of legal relations in the field of police care regarding the minors.
 The authors of the article have revealed the most topical issues regarding the procedure for the application of police care in regard to minors.
 A detailed theoretical characteristic of the procedural registration of police care has been provided. The requirements for the minutes form on the application of police care have been provided in details. The most frequent mistakes made by police officers in recording this fact have been characterized. The authors of the article have clarified the types of assistance provided by police officers to minors in order to achieve effective protection of the rights and interests of the latter.
 It has been proved that enshrining the concepts, specific features, legal nature, procedures of police care at the legislative level is a significant step towards protecting the legitimate interests of a man and citizen, where minors are special, least vulnerable subjects. Unfortunately, the timeframe for a police officer to take police care in regard to children has not been clearly defined. It has been established that police officers in most cases draw up the fact of police care not with police care sheet, but with a report, which is a violation of the law.
 The authors have expressed the suggestion on the need to conduct trainings with police officers, courses of advanced training on problematic issues in the field of psychological methods of communication with minors in adverse, difficult, conflict situations, where they would study in details the tactical, psychological methods of communication with children.

Areas of reforming the statutory regulation of academic integrity in Ukraine

Academic integrity is the most important requirement for scientific research. However, the legal regulation of relations ensuring the academic integrity in scientific and educational activities is fragmented and does not contain effective mechanisms for influencing the violator of academic integrity. This necessitates a doctrinal study of the category “academic plagiarism” and the development of areas for reforming the current legislation in this field. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyse the statutory regulation of academic integrity as a phenomenon, the concept of academic plagiarism, its differences from plagiarism in the context of copyright compliance, to identify the scope of subjects responsible for establishing the facts of violations of academic integrity and their powers in the field of responding to corresponding violations, procedures for bringing to justice in case of violation of academic integrity. The present study, based both on general (historical, comparative, logical, and system) and special (structural-functional, formal legal, sociological, statistical, etc.) methods analyses the prospects of statutory regulation of the relatively new concept in Ukraine, which is academic plagiarism, including the legislative norms concerning the establishment of the concept of academic integrity, types of violations of academic integrity, procedures for considering issues of possible violations of academic integrity, types of responsibility for violations of academic integrity and bodies that have the right to apply them, verifies their compliance with international standards. The paper analyses the practice of the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education of Ukraine both on the consideration of complaints about violations of academic integrity, and within the framework of accreditation of educational programmes. Attention is drawn to the contradictions of current legal provisions in the legislation of Ukraine in the field of academic integrity. Proposals to the current legislation are formulated to optimise the legal regulation of the issue of compliance with academic integrity. The authors express their opinion on the necessity of accumulating legal regulation of academic integrity within the framework of a single law “On Academic Integrity” to define higher education institutions and scientific institutions as the main subject of ensuring compliance with the principles of academic integrity, and the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education – mainly by the appellate instance regarding decisions of higher education institutions on violations of academic integrity; adjusting the list of violations of academic integrity and specifying the procedure for their establishment and stimulating higher education institutions to real and not formal compliance with the principles of academic integrity

ОБ’ЄКТИ ІНТЕРНЕТ-ПРАВОВІДНОСИН В УМОВАХ ЦИФРОВІЗАЦІЇ СФЕРИ ГОСПОДАРЮВАННЯ

The main trend of modern economic turnover and development is the global digitalization of all spheres and industries of the economy. For this reason new types of economic relations arise within their boundaries. The article examines the current situation and prospects for the development of legal regulation of Internet relations in the context of economic development. A number of problematic issues of the legal nature of individual objects of the economic rights that exist in a virtual (digital) format are analyzed. The issues of legal regulation of relations in the structure of which there is the so-called virtual element in a particular digital / virtual object are specifically analyzed. Special attention is paid to virtual assets, computer programs and software, artificial intelligence and the concept of the “Internet of Things”, etc. Emphasis is placed on the need for legislative consolidation of the concepts of virtual property and virtual objects, as well as objects with hybrid cyber-physical nature and their subsequent inclusion in the list of property in the economy of the business sector. Basic approaches to legal regulation of robotics based on artificial intelligence have been established. It is determined that the possibility of achieving a synergistic effect in the legal regulation of relations with virtual objects makes it necessary to make appropriate additions to the provisions of the Economic and Civil codes of Ukraine, as well as modernization of legislation in the field of intellectual property and innovation activities, investment legislation, legislation on property and property rights assessment, e-commerce, foreign economic activity on the Internet, protection of consumer rights of digital goods, etc. When adding and formulating these provisions into national legislation it should be taken into consideration the basis for international legal regulation of these issues submitted by acts of soft law, which are of a recommendatory nature. (These are the recommendations on artificial intelligence developed by the ETO-T Y.2060 (06/2012) Economic Telecommunication Organization “Overview of the Internet of things”).

ПРОБЛЕМАТИКА ПРАВОВОЇ ПРИРОДИ РЕКОМЕНДАЦІЙНИХ РОЗ’ЯСНЕНЬ АНТИМОНОПОЛЬНОГО КОМІТЕТУ УКРАЇНИ

The article is devoted to the scientific analysis of legal nature of recommendation clarifications of Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. The detailed attention is paid to the thorough investigation of provisions of Recommended Clarifications of Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine No. 39-pp August 08th, 2016 that defines the legal approaches of Anti monopoly Committee, which are recommended to apply by its official bodies while defining of fines for violation of legislation on protection of economic competition, including protection from unfair competition, in order to ensure the legal certainty and predictability of application of legal provisions. On the basis of scientific research, the conclusion is made that recommended clarifications of Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine by their legal nature are the acts of common regulative force that are not the legislative acts, they also cannot create new legal provisions, they belong to the so called “soft law” by means of which the uniformity of interpretation and uniform rules for realization of legal provisions are ensured. The importance of recommendation as interpretation of legal provisions is highlighted, their place in the regulation of legal relations is defined. The main purpose of recommendations is to form the legal opinion of state authority abot the content and the order of execution of legal provisions. The authors make a conclusion that withdrawal of Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine from its own legal position as to the practice of fine calculation, that is prescribed in recommended clarifications, provides the possibility to talk about the violation of one of the major principle of law — the principle of legal certainty. The proper realization of discretional competence is based on the compliance with the requirements of legality and adequacy of law enforcement decisions of empowered officials. With the purpose of improvement of current legislation, it is proposed to approve the Methodology for calculating the amount of fines by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for violation of the legislation on protection of economic competition. The adoption of such Methodological guidance for calculation of fines will increase the efficiency of national regulative provisions and goes completely in line with the provisions of Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine.

ЎЗБЕКИСТОН РЕСПУБЛИКАСИДАН ЭЛЕКТРОН ВАЛЮТА ҚИММАТЛИКЛАРИНИ НОҚОНУНИЙ РАВИШДА ХОРИЖИЙ ДАВЛАТЛАРГА ОЛИБ ЧИҚИБ КЕТИЛИШИНИ ОЛДИНИ ОЛИШ ЧОРАЛАРИ ХУСУСИДА

To date, there are cases of illegal export of values in electronic currency from the Republic of Uzbekistan to foreign countries, in particular, suchforeign currency as cryptocurrency, blockchain, mining. This situation, in turn, causes an escalation and an increase in the illegal withdrawal of electronic currency values from the Republic of Uzbekistan to foreign countries. Since the fight against theillegal export of currency values from the Republic of Uzbekistan to foreign countries remains an urgent task. Based on the foregoing, this scientific article will highlight in detail theimportance, prevention of illegal export of the Republic of Uzbekistan to foreign countries, illegal export of electronic currency values from the Republic of Uzbekistan to foreign countries establishment of administrative and criminal liability for embezzlement, legal regulation of relations related to electronic currency and relevance of the fight against illegal export of electronic currency values from the Republic of Uzbekistan to foreign countries, proposals on preventive measures

Polyvariety of the Structure of the Normative Element in the Mechanism of Legal Regulation of Civil Relations: Theoretical Aspect

The mechanism of legal regulation of relations is considered as a system of legal means, methods and forms with the help of which social relations are regulated. The author argues about the variability of the normative element of the mechanism under consideration, since it is not always possible to include the multiplicity of parameters that form its content and essence exclusively into the content of a legal norm. It is argued that the rule of law is not the main element of the mechanism of legal regulation through which relations between members of the society are being regulated. The corresponding regulatory influence is ensured with the help of individual regulators that have a different legal nature due to their limited, personalized obligatoriness. The author proves that, along with a legal norm, an individual normative prescription acts as a legal means of ensuring the operation of the mechanism of legal regulation of social relations, and its form is represented by alter-normative regulators (contract, custom). In addition, along with normative and alter-normative regulators, super-normative (principles of law) and quasi-normative (judicial acts) are highlighted.

ON THE QUESTION OF DEFINING THE CONCEPT OF "DIGITAL CONSTITUTIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS" IN THE MODERN PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL SCIENCE

The scientific article considers issues related to the definition of the concept of "digital constitutional rights of citizens" and their inclusion in the categorical and conceptual apparatus of the science of constitutional law, in the norms of the constitutions of various states. The author offers an interpretation of this concept. Under "digital constitutional rights of citizens", in this scientific article, a set of universal equal opportunities for human behavior enshrined in the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, is meant, and these opportunities determine the procedure for the implementation of individual and joint activities to use digital electronic services, information, digital technologies, digital products, the procedure for guaranteeing protection their rights in the information space. The article proposes ideas, initiatives and suggestions in terms of forecasting the development of digital constitutional human rights that a person currently possesses, using the new information and communication opportunities provided by the global Internet. Conclusions. An analysis of the practice of international legal documents led the author to the conclusion that despite the fact that international organizations are making attempts to regulate relations in this area, work on substantiating digital constitutional norms in some countries is limited to the development of state programs in which normative legal acts are adopted and introduced changes in the norms of sectoral legislation, in other countries the discussion of this problem is only from the perspective of scientific constitutionalists. It is necessary to start work on a comprehensive international program of international legal regulation of relations in the field of digital rights with the involvement of the international legal community, representatives of the science of constitutional law. This will contribute to the development of a categorical and conceptual apparatus in this area of knowledge.

Types and Stages of Regulation of Legal Relations

One of the most important issues that reveal the essence and content of the regulation of legal relations is the question of the types and stages of regulation. Traditionally, the theory of state and law considers the regulation of legal relations through legal regulation, which includes normative legal regulation and individual legal regulation. In the article, based on the consideration of legal and individual regulation of legal relations as interrelated and mutually complementary types of regulation of legal relations, it is proposed to distinguish two stages of regulation of legal relations – the stage of legal regulation and the stage of individual regulation of legal relations.

International Legal Protection of Animals: Problems and Prospects

INTRODUCTION. The purpose of this work is to identify the main problems of modern international legal protection of animals and the theoretical justification of the need to change their legal status (regime). The main task of the research is to study modern concepts that have already become the basis of international legal acts for the protection of various categories of animals, as well as ideas that have sufficient potential to lay the foundation for a more conscious attitude to other biological species. Furthermore, the research highlights significant shortcomings of the global legal policy on animal protection, which hinder the achievement of the main goals of international cooperation in this area. The research also suggests new approaches that can solve both ethical and environmental problems of human-animal relationships in the very near future. In addition, this scientific work provides various philosophical and legal arguments that confirm the need to assign a special legal status to animals.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The research examines the doctrinal positions of mainly foreign researchers and legal experts dealing with the problems of international legal protection of animals. This study uses the norms of some international legal agreements of a global and regional nature, as well as the provisions of recommendation documents. The research used general theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, induction, deduction, abstraction, generalization, idealization, analogy, modeling, concretization, logical, systematic and comparative approaches) and special legal methods (historical-legal, formal-legal and the method of legal forecasting).RESEARCH RESULTS. Based on the results of the study, the author identifies the main problems of international legal regulation of relations on the conservation of biodiversity in the framework of the implementation of the concepts of environmental protection and sustainable development. In addition, the study highlights the most important achievements and significant gaps in the EU's legal policy on animal welfare. Through the synthesis and generalization of the main provisions of the concept of well-being and the concept of animal rights, this scientific work forms an idea of the most successful model of international legal protection of animals. Based on the obtained result, the study predicts the inevitable change in their legal status (regime) and the revision of the existing anthropocentric paradigm of modern legal science.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. The vast majority of existing international legal agreements on the protection and use of animals protect the secondary interests of modern consumer society, where animals have a rank based on their usefulness, without taking into account their immanent value. If the trends of recent decades continue, the environmental goals set by international environmental law will remain unattainable. In order to solve a layer of ethical and environmental problems, it is necessary to abandon the anthropocentric approach, which permeates the entire system of international law, in favor of a more perfect organization of human relations with nature (for example, in favor of anthropocosmocentrism, cosmocentrism, biocentrism, etc.). In addition, the identification of animals with property does not correspond to modern ideas about them as sentient beings. It is unacceptable to treat them as «things» within the framework of national legal systems and international law. Regardless of whether they will have legal capacity or will lead a new, specific category of persons, animals must have a certain set of international legal guarantees.