Kravchuk M. Administrative and Legal Support for Counteraction to Bioterrorism

The thesis is devoted to the complex study of the problems of administrative and legal support for counteraction to bioterrorist threats in Ukraine. The terminological apparatus of anti-terrorist legislation has been analysed to determine the socio-legal nature of bioterrorism, as well as the systematization of doctrinal provisions declared by the representatives of legal and other social sciences. Biosafety, counteraction to bioterrorism has been found to be an integral part of national security, but any guidance on issues of threat of technogenic, including nuclear and biological, terrorism; the impact of harmful genetic effects in populations of living organisms, genetically modified organisms, biotechnologies, etc., unfortunately, are absent. Moreover, the current national legislation of Ukraine does not contain a clear and justified definition of the term «bioterrorism». In the aspect of consideration of the issue of regulatory acts of counteraction to bioterrorism, it is proposed to amend the Law of Ukraine “On Counteraction to Terrorism” in terms of consolidating the concept of “biological terrorism”. The author substantiates the principle of legitimacy of administrative and legal support of counteraction to biological terrorism as a specific element of the complex social-negative category of“terrorism”, which will make it possible to draw the attention of the legislator to the need for further detailing at the level of laws and regulations of the system of regulatory legal acts, aimed at preventing and counteraction to bioterrorism. The analysis of international legal acts on the issues of counteraction to bioterrorism is carried out. Indeed, in its complex interaction, the reproduction of norms of national law in the norms of international law, and vice versa, serves to achieve effective results in the field of counteraction to bioterrorism and overcoming its negative consequences. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons and on Their Destruction (CBTC), of which Ukraine is a fully legitimate party, has been determined to play a significant role.