The role of advisory acts of the Eurasian Economic Union in the development of administrative and legal means of protecting consumer rights in Russian law

The article analyzes the influence of the Eurasian Economic Union's (EAEU) advisory acts on the development of domestic consumer protection legislation, specifically legislation on administrative liability for consumer rights violations. The authors examine the role and significance of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board recommendations for achieving the overall harmonization of consumer protection legislation and explore the importance of administrative and legal measures to ensure adequate guarantees of citizens' rights. The article also analyzes the impact of the EAEU advisory acts on the reform of domestic legislation on administrative liability for consumer rights violations, in conjunction with amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation No. 2300-1 "On Consumer Protection" of February 7, 1992. The research methodology is determined by its subject matter. It is based on general scientific methods of inquiry, as well as the formal legal method and the method of analyzing and interpreting regulatory legal acts. For the first time in Russian literature, the authors examine the impact of regional integration processes on the development of legislation on administrative liability for consumer rights violations, taking into account the impact of so-called "soft" international law. The study concludes that since the harmonization of consumer protection legislation among EAEU member states primarily involves the convergence of civil law regulations, recommendatory acts have only an indirect impact on administrative liability legislation, the transformation of which typically results from the reform of provisions governing private law relations involving consumers. An exception to this trend is the establishment of administrative liability for violations of the rights of certain categories of consumers.