CERTAIN TERMS AND CONCEPTS IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LEGISLATION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

Both in national and international law, when drafting regulatory legal documents, specific terms and concepts are used, and evaluative concepts are also used. Thanks to their existence, the form of application and interpretation of individual provisions of regulatory legal acts is simplified for the law enforcement officer. A characteristic feature of the conceptual apparatus of international law is the definition of concepts precisely in the context of a specific regulatory legal act. In national legislation, over the past ten years, in certain branches of law, a separate norm has been introduced that reveals the meaning of a particular term. However, differences may arise when interpreting concepts fixed at both the international and national levels. Therefore, we consider it necessary to conduct a comparative definition of concepts and terms used in both domestic and international legal acts, to draw attention to this problem. Special attention should be paid to the concept of tolerance. Purpose. Carrying out a comparative analysis of the definition of terms and concepts in international and national legislation for their unified perception and use when drawing up regulatory legal documents. Methods. To achieve the stated goal and obtain appropriate research results, the following methods were used: logical-structural, which allowed for a logical and consistent presentation of scientific material, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, formal-logical, comparative-legal and the method of logical generalization. Results. The article provides a comparative analysis of many international and domestic legal documents, and some patterns and features of the presentation of terms and concepts in them were identified. Conclusions. Concepts and terms that are close in their external similarity and content can be defined differently in both international and national legislation. Concepts fixed at the international level may be completely absent at the national level, or, conversely, be defined more specifically and expandedly than in documents of foreign states.