Significance of the project

The need of undertaking the research on administrative law model of animal protection is determined not only by the multiplicity of the current regulations, it’s numerous deficiencies and evident gaps in scientific knowledge, but first of all the consciousness of moral obligations of man towards animals. In other words, undertaking such an issue is reasonable not only because of the severity of the legal problems, but also because the humane animal protection is one of the most important axiological dilemmas of the present. Moreover, the development of science in this field will contribute to improvement of the development of civilization indicators’, in both the material and awareness dimension.

In the literature of the subject there’s no study which would review the administrative law model of humane animal protection in a complex way. It does not mean that this issue has not been undertaken by the representatives of the administrative law doctrine. The thing is that the subjects of their argumentation are limited to particular issues. Moreover, most of the published works are based on the outdated and invalid legal grounds. Therefore there is a necessity of conducting a multidimensional considerations which would allow to verify the details concerning the administrative law model of humane animal protection that are know at this time; and first of all will allow to draw the general conclusions concerning quality of the adequate administrative law norms on the animal protection.

Completion of the planned research will contribute to the forming of optimal administrative law model for the protection of animals and the development of the study of administrative law. Furthermore, indirectly it will also affect the development of other scientific disciplines, such as, for instance, biomedical sciences, whose progress is largely shaped by the feasibility of using animals in experiments designed to verify hypotheses relevant in achieving cognitive and applicative objectives in the field of medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and many other biological sciences. Even the mere fact of dissemination of the results (in the form of scientific articles, scientific monographs, speeches at conference, and popular science publications) will raise the level of social awareness of the legal protection of animals, which is one of the conditions for further progress of the civilization.