Administrative responsibility in the context of counteracting the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19): generalization of law enforcement practice

Abstract

The article summarizes the practice of bringing to administrative responsibility for violation of norms and regulations in connection with the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), and identifi es problems of competition in Articles 6.3 and 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. The author connects the lack of a uniform practice of bringing to administrative responsibility for «covid» offenses with the legal uncertainty in bringing subjects to responsibility, the recommendatory nature and excessive blanketity of the norms. Ambiguous is the judicial practice of bringing to administrative responsibility the tort legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The simplifi ed procedure for considering an administrative case and the promptness of bringing to administrative responsibility are considered as characteristics of tort legislation when a special (prohibitive-restrictive) legal regime is introduced.