Lapina M.A., Karpukhin D.V., Buchenkov G.A. On the issue of the role of judicial practice for the determination of administrative offenсes as minor

Abstract: The subject of the article includes the current norms of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation, regulating the concept of insignificance of an administrative offence, and the materials of judicial practice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Arbitration Court and lower courts, containing the normative and causal interpretations of determination of minor administrative offences. At present, the administrative punishments, contained in the provisions of chapters 14 and 15 of the Code of Administrative Offences, for the violations in the sphere of the economy and finances, in the form of an administrative fine, disqualification and administrative suspension of activity, are very significant from the position of negative property consequences for the subjects of administrative responsibility – individuals, legal entities and persons possessing the official status. At the same time, the Code doesn't contain clear grounds for determination of minor offenses, what causes problems and ambiguous approaches of judicial authorities.The methodological basis of the study comprises recent achievements of epistemology. The authors apply general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical), and the methods used in specific sociological studies (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.).The authors conclude that it is necessary to ensure the legislative provision of the criteria of insignificance of administrative offences in the Code of Administrative Offences and to establish the list of compositions of administrative offences, which should not be determined as minor offences. The main contribution of the authors is the examination of the judicial practice and the revelation of ambiguity of interpretations of insignificance with respect to formal and material components of administrative offences.The novelty of the article lies in the proposals about the development of the criteria, regulating the insignificance of offenses.

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