ON ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES IN LEGISLATION ON CONSUMER PROTECTION

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ON ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES IN LEGISLATION ON CONSUMER PROTECTION

Journal Title: Юридичний науковий електронний журнал - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue

Abstract

The article is devoted to the characteristics of administrative offenses in the legislation on consumer protection. The author focuses on the international experience of regulation of administrative responsibility for violation of legislation on consumer protection. Determine the need to provide a separate chapter in the Administrative Code on offenses in the law on consumer protection and complement the new Сode of offenses in this area. Consumer protection is one of the most important features of a democratic society and protecting the constitutional rights of citizens. Unfortunately, it should be noted that today the offense in the legislation on consumer protection is a phenomenon quite common. This is confirmed by data on the number of administrative offenses in the legislation on consumer protection, which increases annually. These facts demonstrate the urgent need to develop and implement measures to improve the situation in the consumer market to ensure consumer protection. Such measures may be granted legislative confirmation and identification of types of administrative offenses that infringe on consumer rights and capacities of the administrative and legal regulation that has been and remains an effective lever to combat offenses in this area, largely determines the possibilities for consumers to implement and protect their rights and interests, the effectiveness of appropriate legal safeguards. The peculiarity of administrative offenses in the legislation on consumer protection is their diversity. Yes, the object of attack may make consumer health, sanitary and epidemiological welfare of population, information on goods (works, services), quantity, quality, range, as well as their manufacturer (performer, seller), entrepreneurship trade, catering services, established order of payments, noncompliance with standards, falsification of measuring instruments, indication of the prices. Today, the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offences missing a chapter on violations that infringe on the rights of consumers, obviously because of the differences and diversity of their objects. The foregoing suggests that consumer protection is extremely important and urgent problem the task of public authorities to solve this problem legislator holds administrative responsibility for violation of consumer rights regulations stipulated that should deter violations in the area of human consumer s. These problems must first distinguish chapter in the Code of Administrative Offences entitled «Administrative offenses in the legislation on consumer protection», which provide rules that establish responsibility for offenses which are the object of attack the rights of consumers, and complement the new code of offenses.

Authors and Affiliations

Л. Д. Менів

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