Legal Regulation of Food Safety at the Federal Level

Abstract

Introduction. The article examines the legal regulation of food safety at the federal level. The legal acts that consolidate the powers of federal executive authorities in this area are analyzed. The purpose of the study was to identify ineffective executive authorities in the field of food security, legislative gaps and to develop proposals to eliminate them.Methodology and materials: general and particular scientific methods of cognition of objective reality, including analysis, synthesis, formal legal and other methods of scientific cognition. Research results. The absence of legislation consolidating the system of executive authorities, whose activities are entirely aimed only at ensuring food security, has been revealed. There are also no legal acts establishing separate bodies whose competence includes exclusively issues related to food security. The Russian specifics of the construction of the public administration apparatus in relation to the relations under consideration lies in the distribution of relevant competence between various executive authorities. However, the activities aimed at ensuring food security are not the main ones for them.Conclusions. The study revealed inefficiency in the activities of the Federal Agency for Fisheries. It is proposed to deprive the agency of the authority to quota the catch of marine biological resources, and assign them to the Government of the Russian Federation.