A New Emergency Situation Type and Issues of the Legal Regulation Arising in Course of Its Liquidation

In: State power and local self-government, Band 1, S. 12-16

Abstract

The article is devoted to a new type of emergency situations — the situation created as a result of the spread of a disease that poses a danger to others. The article considers the norms of Federal laws that regulate issues related to the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), analyzes the powers of the Federal Executive body authorized to solve problems in the field of protecting the population and territories from emergencies, and the chief state sanitary doctors who head the Federal Executive body responsible for organizing and implementing Federal state sanitary and epidemiological supervision, and its territorial bodies for the subjects of the Russian Federation. As a result of the analysis, proposals were formulated to amend the Federal laws "On the protection of the population and territories from natural and man-made emergencies" and "On the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population", allowing to establish restrictions on the rights and freedoms of individuals and organizations in accordance with the requirements established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as to provide compensation in return for the restrictions imposed