Some issues of legal regulation of animal insurance as a compulsory type of insurance

Abstract

Agrarian insurance is a prerequisite for the existence of agriculture, especially for agrarian countries. The present puts before agricultural production serious climatic, economic, and biological challenges. Insurance should become a tool that will help balance risks between all participants in agrarian insurance relations and reduce the adverse impact on agricultural production and the standard of living in the state. Proceeding from this, the purpose of this study was to investigate the issue of legal regulation of animal insurance as a compulsory type of insurance and outline the prospects for the development of such types of insurance. The method for investigating this issue was the analysis of the current national legislation, which suggested that the legal regulation of animal insurance meets its conditions in national regulations. Based on the analysis of regulations governing the procedure for insurance of farm animals, the study examined the problematic issues and suggested ways to eliminate conflicts in the legal regulation of this type of insurance. The problems of determining the list of animals subject to compulsory insurance were investigated and ways to solve them were proposed. The paper analysed the issue of legal expansion of the range of insurance risks for animal insurance contracts within the framework of the Law of Ukraine “On the Specifics of Insurance of Agricultural Products with State Support”. The proposed amendments to the regulations in the field of breeding animal insurance will harmonize the corresponding legislation, as well as improve awareness of breeding animals for regulatory authorities, consumers of relevant products and insurers. The materials of this paper are of practical value for further research of the legal regulation of animal insurance, their improvement, and identification of new issues in national regulations.