Rules for the Imposition and Payment of Administrative Fines: Current Problems in the Constitutional-Law Context

The article is devoted to the analysis of some novelties that were introduced in 2022 into the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. These novelties have made quite serious adjustments to the rules for the imposition and execution of administrative penalties in the form of administrative fines, linking the possibility of their application with the identification of an offense during state control (supervision), municipal control. At the same time, the updated norms of the Code (the provisions of Part 34-1 of Article 4.1, part 1 of Article 4.11, part 5 of Article 4.4 and part 13-3 of Article 32.2) were not fully consistent with the legislation on control and supervisory activities. This, in turn, has given rise to ambiguous law enforcement practice, indicating the need for a constitutional-law assessment of these regulations.