On constitutional jurisdiction and the fundamentals of business legislation in the Russian Federation

Introduction. The article analyzes a legally unresolved issue: on the attribution of business legislation to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Russian Federation or the joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Federation? The author critically evaluates the arguments concerning the "dilemma" put forward. The concept of the work is one's own judgments on this issue, which substantiate the attribution of business legislation to the joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Federation.

Purpose. To investigate the constitutional conduct of domestic business legislation, in terms of attributing it to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Russian Federation or the joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Federation.

The methodological basis of the work consists of general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, functional, systemic, structural, abstraction, concretization, as well as private scientific research methods: formal-legal, technical-legal, concrete-historical, methods of grammatical, logical and systematic interpretation.

The object of the research is social relations related to constitutional conduct and the fundamentals of domestic business legislation.

Subject of the study: regulatory legal acts, domestic doctrine and judicial practice concerning the issue of attributing business legislation to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Russian Federation or the joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Federation?

Results and conclusions. The functional purpose and purpose of the normative legal acts adopted by various state authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of regulating relations between persons engaged in entrepreneurial activity (or with their participation) cannot be: 1) obviously, the limitation of the unity of the economic space, freedom of movement of goods, freedom of economic activity, the right to freely use one's abilities and property for  entrepreneurial activity; 2) the introduction of a new (different) form of legal regulation of entrepreneurship. 

The author has made a proposal to amend clause "k" of Article 72 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, stating it in the following wording: administrative, administrative procedural, labor, family, housing, land, water, forestry, business legislation, legislation on subsoil, on environmental protection; thereby reflecting in the text of the Constitution the norm according to which business legislation is under the joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Federation.

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