Problems of application of measures of administrative responsibility for offenses in the sphere of consumption of alcoholic beverages

Introduction: the article considers administrative liability measures taken against persons who have committed offences related to the consumption of alcoholic products. The author draws attention in the article to their insufficient preventive impact on offenders. The focus is on the analysis of sectoral legislation and judicial practice in cases of administrative offences in the field of consumption of alcoholic products, problems of their application. Materials and Methods: the normative basis of the study is: administrative legislation, normative acts aimed at preventing and suppressing offences in the field of alcohol consumption. The methodological basis of the study was the general dialectical method of scientific knowledge, which is universal, as well as methods of system analysis, comparative law and content analysis. Results of the Study: made it possible to formulate proposals for legislation, which, according to the author, would contribute to more effective prevention of offences in the field under study. Findings and Conclusions: having analysed the administrative liability measures, the author concludes that there is insufficient legal impact on the perpetrators of alcoholrelated offences and that there is a need for the most effective regulatory and enforcement mechanism to prevent unlawful acts in this area.