State legal policy of Russia in providing food security

The article examines the domestic and international legal acts, reveals the problems of formation of the effective mechanism of legal regulation to ensure food security of the Russian Federation. It was found that the problems of agro-industrial complex should be identified in a comprehensive and considered manner during the development and implementation of state programs for the development of agriculture, with the elimination of all obstacles hindering the production, processing and distribution of food. The author reveals the gaps in legislation to neutralize internal and external threats to Russia's real food security such as: a sharp rise in food prices; filling the market with imported products; excessive demand of the population; reduction in the volume of per capita consumption; violation of standards of quality and safety of food products; increase food self-sufficiency of regions. It was determined that the determination of legal problems of regulation measures in the field of food security, legal means of neutralizing the threat to food security should be considered as a factor in the normative legal maintain national security in its internal and external condition. Th article elicits the vital interests of the individual society and the state: availability of sufficient food resources; economic and physical access to food; quality and safety of food supplied to the market. The basic reasons for the relatively slow development of the agricultural sector are analysed: the slow pace of structural and technological modernization of the sector; renewal of fixed production assets; skills shortages caused by low levels and quality of life in rural areas; lack of legal certainty about the circulation of agricultural land; reducing the most valuable arable land; withdrawal of land from agricultural use; growth of debt of agricultural producers; lack of funds for technical and technological modernization of agricultural production. Taking into account the requirements of the WTO it is recommended that the Customs Union EAEC should adjust the internal and foreign policy of the state in the field of agro-industrial complex in order to ensure uninterrupted food of the population. It is also necessary to make amendments to the federal laws "On agricultural development", "On quality and food safety," to develop and adopt the Federal Law "On Food Security of the Russian Federation. " The author states that it is necessary to consider the possibility of introducing changes and amendments to the Customs and Tax Codes of the Russian Federation with a view to the application of tariff quotas for goods coming from other countries.

law, security, food security, interests, security, management, production, reserves, grants, subsidies, incentives, improvement

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