Abstract: The subject of this study are the concepts used to regulate public relations related to the realization of ownership of goods transported across the customs border, power relations between customs authorities and persons exercising ownership of goods, as well as public relations related to the regulation of customs affairs. The authors consider in detail the established legal and scientific approaches to the definition of the basic concepts of customs law, the analysis of which reveals their essential features, essence and content. The authors study in detail such concepts as customs legal relations, customs control, customs regulation, customs business, customs administration, customs policy, customs law, customs legislation and others. Special attention in the framework of the study is paid to providing a comprehensive analysis of these concepts, taking into account the specifics of approaches to their understanding in various spheres of public relations. The authors used general scientific methods (abstraction, induction, deduction, hypothesis, analogy, synthesis, typology, classification, systematization, generalization and others) as well as special methods of scientific cognition characteristic of jurisprudence (comparative law, historical, formal law, legal hermeneutics, system-structural, legal modeling and others). The scientific novelty of the research lies in the conclusions and proposals aimed at improving the basic terminology of customs law, based on ensuring uniform approaches to the unambiguous definition of the basic concepts of customs law, which do not contradict the current legislation and are aimed at its development. The authors substantiate the critical importance of unifying the understanding of customs law terms in order to achieve a unified customs regulation, uniformity of law enforcement practice during customs control and customs operations both in the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union and in the Russian Federation. A special contribution of the authors is the realized attempt to integrate the approaches of the legislator, representatives of legal and economic sciences to the definition of customs law concepts as the only guarantee of effective regulation and management of public relations in the field of foreign economic activity.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of the influence of the institute of administrative responsibility on the innovative development of customs administration and digitalization of public governance. Automation of customs operations, categorization of participants in foreign economic activity, selection of objects and forms of customs control using software tools are directly related to administrative responsibility in the field of customs. Conclusions are formulated concerning the need to stimulate innovative development of the commercial side of the customs sphere, as well as the need to ensure the effectiveness of the use of automated systems, minimize potential risks, develop a legal regulation mechanism that excludes bringing to administrative responsibility of foreign trade participants for illegal acts that are not guilty, but arose as a result of errors or technical malfunctions of automated systems. The subject of the research in this article is therefore the influence of the institute of administrative responsibility on the innovative development of customs administration and foreign economic activity. The research methods were: analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison and analogy, induction and deduction, universal dialectical, logical, statistical, formal legal research methods, the method of legal forecasting, etc. Based on the results of the scientific research, the authors substantiate the need to revise the place and role of the institute of administrative responsibility in the field of customs relations, and also formulate proposals for improving this institute in order to ensure accelerated and balanced innovative development of both customs administration and foreign economic activity