Open AccessRegulatory and Legal Support for the Activities of Public Authorities in the context of a New Coronavirus Infection (COVID-19) Pandemic
Author(s) -
Sergey Zenin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lex russica/lex russica (russkij zakon)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-7869
pISSN - 1729-5920
DOI - 10.17803/1729-5920.2021.176.7.073-084
Subject(s) - population , political science , public rights , competence (human resources) , pandemic , government (linguistics) , context (archaeology) , public administration , neutrality , business , law , public relations , covid-19 , economics , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , environmental health , linguistics , philosophy , management , disease , pathology , paleontology , biology
The purpose of the work is to assess the legal regulation of the activities of public authorities in certain areas in the coronavirus pandemic. Using general philosophical, general scientific, private scientific and special methods of scientific research, regulatory legal acts and the practice of interaction of public authorities in Russia in a pandemic of a new coronavirus infection, analytical and statistical materials, significant foreign experience are studied.The paper attempts to formulate and study the factors that hinder the effective regulatory legal regulation of the activities of the levels of public authority in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among these are: the inability of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to determine the content of special restrictive legal regimes from the array of current legal regulation; a high proportion of acts (instructions) of the federal center; the refusal of the Federation to specify the scope of the powers of the regions in matters directly related to the state of protection of individual rights and freedoms; insufficient competence of special bodies to protect the population from emergency situations; lack of legal guarantees of local self-government when including them in the process of implementing public functions.The paper concludes that the effectiveness of regulatory legal regulation of the activities of public authorities in the COVID-19 pandemic depends on three main institutional factors: the competence of the elements of the public power system, the political neutrality of the system of protecting the population from emergency situations, the consistent regulation of restrictive legal regimes, conditions and the procedure for their introduction, regardless of specific scenarios for the development of threats to national security. The paper substantiates the idea that the optimal organization of managerial decision-making in the context of countering the pandemic involves a comprehensive interdepartmental approach with a dominant federal influence.