Conceptual problems of the third codification of the legislation on administrative offenses

The article deals with problems related to the development of the concept of the new Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses. Retrospective analysis of the development of the legislation on administrative offenses is conducted, a brief description of the legislation of foreign “Western traditional” countries, regulating similar issues, as well as the legislation of former Republics of the USSR - Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which successfully reformed the national legislation on administrative offenses. The Author grades the draft of the Code of Administrative Responsibility and the Code of Administrative Offences submitted to the State Duma in 2014-2015, as well as the initiative concept of the new code, according to which plans are made to start drafting a new bill. According to the Author, the proposed concept needs to be finalized, it does not define the basic idea, purpose and subject of legal regulation, place in the system of the current legislation (especially connection with criminal legislation).