| Abstract [eng] |
The Service of the State Tobacco and Alcohol Control (The Service) is the institution under the Government of The Republic of Lithuania. Its main tasks are the realization of state policy of tobacco and alcohol control, the control of the observance of laws and licence of the activity related with tobacco and alcohol. The content of the service functions and the practice of realization is presented in this work. The work describes the main problems The Service comes across while carrying out its functions and besides the main critical arguments of the Service activity are given (as too big fines are imposed leaving out of account all the mitigating circumstances, etc.), the ways how to solve the problems are also discussed. While analysing the judgements of The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania the disputes of decisions of The Service are discussed. The work analyses The Service decisions related to requirements of advertising tobacco and alcohol., the requirement to have the licence and to have all the documents which prove the legality of purchase the products of alcohol and tobacco , furthermore all the other requirements laid down by laws are discussed here. Moreover the work analyses the problem of non bis idem when The Service makes decision to punish twice for the same crime. |
