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Keywords: transport law, public law, private law, transport law concept, public administration, economic
management, corporate governance, holding company.
Background. The problem of correlation of public simultaneously separating competitive activities from
and private law as instruments of legal centralization the monopoly structure [2].
and decentralization is the cornerstone of jurisprudence According to the strategy of development of railway
throughout the entire period of existence of law, being transport until 2030, an effective combination of state
directly dependent on the content of the political and regulation and market self-regulation mechanisms is
economic organization of society and its dominant provided. It is noted that the main means of state
views. According to a fair comment by I. A. Pokrovsky, regulation in the natural monopoly segment of the railway
«throughout the course of history, the boundary services market are: establishment of fixed tariffs based
between public and private law did not always pass in on the economically justified costs of the regulated entities
the same place, the areas of the one and the other and the regulatory profit, taking into account the
changed many times» [1, p. 40]. regulatory profitability of its own (invested) capital; setting
A similar trend can be seen today at the example tariff limits; regulation of non-discriminatory access; pre-
of transport. In the context of market reforms and trial settlement of disputes regarding application of tariffs;
restructuring, organizational and legal prerequisites maintaining a register of regulated segments of natural
have been created for development of an «innovative» monopoly markets, subjects of natural monopolies, works
model of legal regulation of the transport industry. The (services) related to their field, etc. The main mechanisms
public legal organization of transport relations is now of state regulation in the competitive segment include:
fundamentally different from the model that functioned regulation of behavioral conditions of activity of market
in the Soviet period. Since the end of the 90s of the last entities (antimonopoly regulation); maintenance and
century, complication of subordination and coordination development of conditions for effective self-regulation of
ties in transport has been explained by total privatization the market for railway transport services in the conditions
of property, emergence of special business entities, of price and technological competition, etc. [3].
proliferation of business activities, and most importantly The difficulty of identifying the object of legal
it has led to extension of the sphere of private law regulation in transport and methods of influencing it
regulation and to changing ratio in application of private has caused and continues to provoke in the scientific
law and public law in favor of private law. field a discussion on the status of legal model governing
Objective. The objective of the author is to transport relations in the system of Russian law. Most
consider transport law concept based on convergence authors see the optimization of normative regulation
of private and public law dominants. of such relations through creation of complex branches
Methods. The author uses general juridical of law and adoption of a single codified act – the
methods, comparative analysis, evaluation approach. Transport Code of the Russian Federation.
Results. The idea of an integrated approach to regulation
Property redistribution – f unction sharing of relations in the field of transport is supported by many
Previously, relations in the field of transport were researchers. At the core of their reasoning is the thesis
grouped into two main blocks – public administration that a feature of legal norms governing transport
and transportation, being respectively objects of public relations is that, on the one hand, they regulate the
law and private law influence. The specificity of modern power-organisation relations, traditionally being the
business in transport, not related to transportation, subject of administrative law (vertical relations), and
dictates the need for a new legal model for organizing on the other, property relations (for example, in the
property relations of business entities (real estate, field of transportation) that constitute the subject of
obligations, corporate governance and ownership, civil law (horizontal relations). Thus, according to
etc.) and incorporating it into a single mechanism for A. G. Kalpin, Russian transport law is a complex branch
legal regulation of relations in the transport sector. of law governing social relations arising in connection
This is confirmed in the program documents of with transportation and other transport activities
the executive bodies regulating restructuring regarding performance of its functions [4].
processes. Thus, in accordance with the program of According to A. I. Bobylev transport relations are
structural reform in railway transport, carried out since heterogeneous in their legal nature, content, and subject 51
the late nineties of the last century, at the first stage, composition. He quoted: relations in creation of
the task was set and successfully accomplished to transport organizations of various organizational and
separate the functions of public administration and legal forms; transportation related relations; labour
organization of economic practices while relations; relations linked to the rational use of natural
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resources; relations in the field of public administration power enforced influence seems to be problematic.
of the transport complex, etc. [5]. The presence in the private-law sphere, directly or
52 The author of the textbook on transport law, indirectly, of state-governmental beginnings, is
V. A. Egiazarov, notes that the common goal of uniting obviously due to the requirements of ensuring public
the norms of v arious branches of law (civil, (public and state) interests in transport. This may
administrative, labour, land, etc.) in a single complex include compliance with transport safety requirements
of transport law is to regulate the activities of each for transportation, licensing of certain types of
mode of transport as a single transport system of the transportation activities, implementation of state policy
country. The scientist proposes to single out the in transport and property affairs through the corporate
general (concluding long-term contracts, vehicles management mechanism of legal entities (participants
supply, liability for failure to fulfill obligations, tariffs, in holding structures), compulsory insurance in
claims and lawsuits, etc.) and special parts (railway, transportation field, etc. These cases are examples of
inland water, air, sea and automobile law) within the entry of public legal tools (public law) into private law
transport law as an integrated branch of law. The matter.
special part of the transport law would regulate relations The study of the forms of convergence of public
within each transport mode taking into account its and private law concerns not only the property side of
specifics, for example, registration of transport transport, but also organization of the entire industry,
documents, the procedure for licensing transport including the mechanism of state management of it,
activities, etc. [6, pp. 8–9]. since the newest (functional) approach to studying the
In civil science, there were also opinions on specifics of transport relations should provide, it
recognition of both transport law as a whole and its seems, a link between industry leadership and
individual parts, for example, maritime law as economic practice as an object of regulating action.
independent branches of law [7]. In this sense, of particular interest is the question
Convergence as a balance of relations of the study of the legal nature, types and regulation of
In my opinion, search for an optimal model of organizational and managerial relations in transport.
systemic impact on transport relations lies outside the Disagreeing with the position of administrators
traditional concept of structuring the system of Russian about the exclusive «belonging» of management
law, that is, dividing it into clearly defined branches in (subordination) relations to the subject of administrative
accordance with the subject of legal regulation. law regulation, it is worth pointing out the universal
In the field of law to reveal the object of regulation nature of coordination and subordination relations
in the transport sphere, the study of one’s own between subjects, law-ordered through creation and
approaches to understanding the constantly evolving use of appropriate legal tools, where the choice of the
category of public relationship should precede. The method of legal influence (public or private) depends
essential content of public and private law, as well as on the purpose of their application by the subject of
their relationship in the legal systems of the pre- rule-making. Management in public law, carried out for
rev olutionary, Soviet and modern periods of public purposes, has a subordination character, and
development of statehood is very different. The management in a private law is of coordination character.
emergence of new spheres of social relations, In the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great
complication of existing, including transport-linked Russian Language, V. Dahl gives several meanings to
relations, indicate a change in the ways in which public the concept of «management»: firstly, «to manage is
and private law is manifested in a single matter of to control something, to rule, to give course, direction»;
transport law. This is confirmed by creation of single secondly, «to dispose – to manage, to be the owner,
business entities with public goals in transport; the manager of something, to tidy up» [10]. Applying
conclusion of contracts by participants of holding this interpretation of management in the transport and
companies on interaction in the public law sphere, for legal sphere, we note that the first value is more
example, in the field of transport security; corporate applicable to public administration in transport, the
(private) management of organizations in the holding second is the essence of management in the property
groups of persons in transport, etc. sphere. So based on the nature of the legal powers of
Therefore, a simple statement of complexity of JSC Russian Railways, we note that the management
transport law as a set of norms of various industries that it exercises should be viewed from the standpoint
must give way to the latest legal methodology of of private law, since the very nature of power here is
scientific knowledge of objective reality (in our case, a particular one: it is the power of the owner, the
the transport sphere), namely, convergence of private economic owner, built no longer on subordination, but
and public law. At the heart of this concept is the on coordination, the main purpose of which is to
principle of systematization of social interests, which provide the country with rail transportation, railway
makes it possible at the level of the mechanism of legal services, as well as with profit.
regulation to identify general models of relationship Three organizational models
between private and public principles [8, p. 47]. Only There are prerequisites for identifying three types
such an approach meets the modern requirements of of transport management – organizational models:
the legal regulation of the reformed transport complex state, economic (for all modes of transport) and
of the country. According to the fair point of corporate (at the level of holding companies, but only
M. Gredinger, one of the most important and difficult within certain transport modes, for example, within JSC
tasks of jurisprudence is to bring into unity the harmonic Russian Railways for railways (Pic. 1), public JSC
connection of various phenomena of legal life [9]. Aeroflot for air transport).
If public administration in transport traditionally In public and private law, the subject and object of
remains the subject of public law regulation, the use of management are the main system-forming elements.
universal legal means of private law regulation in this Public administration in transport is a form of
industry is distinguished by unconditional specificity. administration in public law. It is carried out in order to
Acknowledging the multiplicity of private law spheres meet the needs of the state and society for
in transport, the use of such means «in its pure form» transportation through implementation of state policy
as classical instruments of refraining from direct and in the transport sector. The subjects of public
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Subsidiaries
and affiliates (first
and second level)
manages
JSC Russian
Railways – holding
Subjects and objects
of management: company
The subject of economic
P management and P
R 1) subject
corporate governance R
of streamlining internal
O relations; 1) subject of streamlining O
internal relations in JSC
P 2) object manages Russian Railways;
P
of management
E of the holding company; E
2) subject of management
R of subsidiary companies; R
T T
Y 3) subject of holding Y
property management
3) as the owner
it is subject manages
of management of own
property
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