State regulation of agriculture in Russia as an economic and legal category

The paper analyzes views of economists and lawyers concerning the necessity of state regulation of agriculture, examines different concepts, provides a specific more precise definition of this category that is referred to as the combination of organizational, economic and other ways of exerting impacts on behalf of the state upon agricultural relations by means of state regulation for the purpose of implementing a state agricultural and economic policy thereby treating this category as economic one. Meanwhile, by the method of state regulation of agricultural relations the author understands the combination of economic tools by means of which the state influences the subjects of agriculture. The author suggests that the classification of the methods of state regulation needs more precise definition. He specifies, first, static methods of state regulation of agriculture that determine the conditions under which the subjects of agriculture operate and that provide for "administrative" and "economic" barriers that an agricultural subject has to overcome; second, dynamic methods that affect proprietary interests of agricultural entities of agricultural relations by means of state-supported mechanisms of economic relations. The author also suggests that a "method of state regulation of agricultural relations" as an economic institution the legal foundation of which forms an economic and legal institution should be treated as the institution of liabilities. This will allo w distinguishing the named categories from the long-established concept in legal sciences, namely, "the legal institution", as one element of the classification (a branch, a sub-branch, an institute, a sub-institute, a rule of law). The author justifies that "legal enforcement" of a proprietary interest of agricultural entities applied during the process of state regulation of agricultural entities: first, allocates a proprietary interest of entities involved in agricultural relations by means of determining an obligation, second, regulates this interest supplementing it by other elements of legal regulation. Legal enforcement means the expression of a regulatory function of law with regard to property interests of agricultural entities.

agriculture, property interest, agricultural entity, state regulation methods, legal enforcement, classification of methods, the static methods, static methods as an economic and legal institution, state support obligations

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