Improving the Legal Regulation of Challenging of Regulatory Legal Acts and Acts Containing Clarifications of Legislation and Having Regulatory Properties

The possibility of judicial challenge of regulatory legal acts (Chapter 21 of the Code of Administrative Judicial Procedure of the Russian Federation (CAJP RF), Chapter 23 of the Administrative Procedure Code of the Russian Federation (APC RF) is an important guarantee of the rule of law regime, ensuring the rule of law in a democratic rule-of-law state. The provisions of procedural codes are generally quite balanced. Focusing on the requirements of legal technique, it is possible to offer more accurate versions of procedural rules in at least four directions. First, Part 7 of Article 213 of the CAJP RF defines the content of the activity aimed at challenging normative regulatory acts. Almost the same wording can be used to improve the wording of Part 4 of Article 194 of the APC RF. Second, it is advisable to check the regulatory nature of the acts containing explanations of legislation and having regulatory properties, not at the stage of litigation, but at the stage of initiating proceedings in the case. This procedure is envisaged for the main legal institution: when challenging regulatory legal acts, their normative nature is checked at the stage of initiating a case. Third, it is necessary to eliminate the legal error made in Paragraph 2 Part 5 Article 217.1 of the CAJP RF and in Paragraph 1 Part 5 Article 195.1 of APC RF: if the court rejects to satisfy the claims, the proposed wording of the court decision on the contested act «does not have normative properties,» since this makes it impossible to challenge it in accordance with Chapter 21 of the CAJP of the Russian Federation, Chapter 23 of the APC of the Russian Federation. Fourth, procedural codes should provide for the possibility of invalidating not only the normative legal or legal interpretation act in whole or in part, but also its individual provisions in whole or in part.

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