On the concept of the new Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Responsibility: a brief commentary on the bill

The article comments on the draft Concept of the new Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Responsibility. It is emphasized that the Concept maintains and develops traditional approaches to the legal regulation of relations that make up the legal institution of administrative responsibility traditional for domestic law. The need to adopt a new Code is due to changes in the international situation, the organization of socio-economic and socio-political life and the activities of the state, and the development of the economy after the adoption and entry into force of the current Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses. These changes had a significant impact on the existing legal system: many new legal institutions arose, and the appearance of entire branches of Russian law changed. For example, there appeared institutes of state and municipal procurement, state and municipal services, a contract system, and institutes in the field of state control (supervision) took shape legislatively and organizationally. There was an urgent need to reflect in the new Code the changed state of the system of public relations, the legal system, judicial and other law enforcement practices, the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, changes in legislation, in the organization of public authorities, in the system of federal relations.