Проблеми Законності (Sep 2019)

The mechanism of administrative and legal regulation of state control over the circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors: scientific and theoretical aspects

  • Олександр Михайлович Шевчук

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990x.146.174132
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 146
pp. 124 – 133

Abstract

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The article based on the analysis of scientists' points of view formulated the author’s definition of the legal construction “administrative and legal regulation of state control over the circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors”, reveals its signs. It is proposed to interpret it as a set of administrative-legal forms, methods and tools by which a set of control measures is determined, using which the state influences the activities of subjects and objects in the sphere of legal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors in order to reduce their non-medical consumption, their illicit trafficking, as well as related offenses. In the implementation of the administrative and legal regulation of such state control, its mechanism is of particular importance. The concept of “the mechanism of administrative and legal regulation of state control over the circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors” is established, its elements are analyzed. It was found that the elements of such a mechanism should include administrative-legal norms of law, administrative-legal relations, acts of interpretation and the implementation of legal norms, legal consciousness and legal culture.

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