TASKS OF THE STATE SERVICE FOR FOOD SAFETY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION: CONTENT AND ESSENCE

Abstract

The article analyzes in detail the content and essence of the tasks of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, which allowed the author to identify their general features, in particular: – a complex interdisciplinary nature, which is explained by the diversity of areas and industries in which this service implements its tasks (veterinary medicine, food safety, sanitary legislation, quarantine and plant protection, market and metrological supervision, consumer rights protection, etc.); – the priority of public interests, since all tasks are primarily aimed at protecting and defending public values such as public health, product safety, consumer rights, etc.; – legal consolidation of the entire range of tasks of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, including their detailing in various laws and subordinate regulatory legal acts without discretion in key issues; – most of the tasks are implemented through control and supervision activities, which are part of the implementation of state policy in the areas of competence of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection; – are preventive in nature, since they are aimed at preventing harm to the life and health of the population, its economic interests, the environment, etc.; – are determined by the triad of main functions of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection – permitting, registration and service, because the implementation of state policy is not limited to control and supervision activities and the establishment of bans, it also provides service services for certification, registration, maintenance of state registers, issuance of permits and certificates (in particular, in the areas of seed production, animal identification, registration of capacities of the agro-industrial complex).