Право/ 2. Адміністративне і фінансове право

Horodetska I.A., Candidate of Law Sciences, Associate Professor

Nizhyn Gogol State University, Ukraine

 

The stages of administrative-legal regulation public relations in area of protection, use and reproduction of animal world

in Ukraine

 

The National report on the state of the environment indicate that the fauna of Ukraine includes more than 45 thousand species including: insects – 35 thousand, other arthropods – 3.4, worms – 3.2 thousand, fish and cyclostomes – 170 species and subspecies, amphibians – 17 species, reptiles – 21, birds – circa 420, mammals, 108 species [1, p. 116]. It is worth to note that the main negative factors of influence on the environment, including the animal world are natural and anthropogenic factors. In particular, the poaching, destruction and deterioration of habitats, negative impact of invasive animal species (vertebrate and invertebrate) are major threats to the biodiversity of the country.

Despite the increase of negative factors affecting the natural environment and biodiversity, good governance and regulation in the area of protection, use and reproduction of animal world is the key to the preservation of environment as a whole. Therefore, the problematic of research on various aspects of administrative-legal regulation of public relations in area of protection, use and reproduction of animal world is important and requires detailed analysis.

In previous publications we have formulated the concept, defined the characteristics and essence of administrative-legal regulation of public relations in the field of protection, use and reproduction of the animal world. Now we focus on the stages inherent in the process of administrative-legal regulation of the relations. To solve this problem let us analyze the approaches of scientists to the stages of the legal (dministrative-legal) regulation.

K. Volynka believes that the process of legal regulation covers several stages, in particular: the legal regulations of social relations; the onset of the conditions provided by law; clarifying the rights and obligations stipulated by the rule of law; implementation of subjective rights and legal responsibilities [2, p. 107-109].

Yu. Krivitsky points out the following main stages of legal regulation: 1) the publication of the legal norms and their regulatory effect on social relations (legal regulation of public relations); 2) the emergence of subjective rights and legal responsibilities of specific legal subjects on the basis of the action of legal norms and their implementation in a particular legal relationship, when these rights and responsibilities are carried out by them in practice, and are embodied in their actual behavior. In addition, according to the scientist, the application and official interpretation of the law should be considered as optional stages of legal regulation [3, p. 77].

In industry research to the stages of legal regulation include: 1) the law-making stage, when the process of the formation of certain rules or normative behavior models take place and they are given compulsory nature; 2) the stage of the emergence of legal relations, where the overall statutory rights and obligations of subjects of law transform to specific subjective rights and legal duties of the parties involved. At this stage the rules of conduct that are defined using permissions, requirements and prohibitions, are fixed by sources of law, and are operated by using legal tools such as legal facts, legal relations, subjective rights and duties of their subjects; 3) stage of application of the law by the relevant competent authority [4, p. 297-299].

According to V. Halunko, the system of legal regulation consists of the following stages: 1) the legal administrative lawmaking; 2) implementation of administrative law when public subjective rights and legal duties of subjects of administrative law are provided; 3) law enforcement activities of entities of public administration that includes administrative sanctions to violators of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of natural and legal persons [5, p. 318].

Given the above, it should be noted that in theory of law there are several different views of scientists on the stages of legal regulation. However, when describing the process of administrative-legal regulation specialists in the sphere of administrative law in the vast majority agreed that the three main stages, namely: the regulation of social relations; the emergence and concretization of subjective rights and legal duties; the actual implementation of the rights and duties of subjects of administrative relations [6, p. 123-125; 7, p. 137-138].

Thus, we define the main stages of the process of administrative-legal regulation of public relations in the area of protection, use and reproduction of the animal world.

The first stage is the legal regulation of social relations in the area of protection, use and reproduction of animal world that require streamlining through administrative and legal means. At this stage, the competent state authorities, including subjects of public administration which carry out state control and regulation in this area, perform the legislative activities of creation of legal norms and normative legal acts [8, p. 67]. The subjects directly empowered by a subordinate administrative law-making include: Central Executive authority that ensures the formation of state policy in the sphere of environmental protection; the Central Executive authority that implements the state policy in the sphere of environmental protection; the Central Executive authority that implements the state policy of state supervision (control) in the sphere of protection of the surrounding natural environment, rational use, reproduction and protection of natural resources, the Central Executive authority that implements state policy in the sphere of forest and hunting economy; the Central body of Executive power that implements the state policy in the sphere of fisheries; and other authorized bodies of Executive power in accordance with their powers [9].

The second stage is the emergence and concretization of subjective rights and legal duties. At this stage takes place the process of transformation of the General regulations of legal norms in a specific model of behavior of participants of public relations in the field of protection, use and reproduction of the animal world. Such a transformation is possible if the situation comes under administrative law (the particular legal fact), with the result that its subjects form administrative and legal relations from which arise interrelated subjective rights and legal responsibilities [2, p. 107; 7, p. 138].

The third stage – the actual implementation of the rights and duties of subjects of administrative relations in the area of protection, use and reproduction of the animal world. That is, there is the actual implementation of the requirements of administrative law in the actual behavior of subjects in the form of observance, execution, use and application of [8, p. 68, 77-78]. At this stage the administrative-legal regulation in the field of protection, use and reproduction of fauna reaches its target – allows to actually use the rights and fulfill obligations.

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