CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION OF THE CIRCULATION OF MEDICINAL PRODUCTS ACCORDING TO THE LEGISLATION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA AND THE SWISS CONFEDERATION.

The purpose of the article is to find out the scope of the criminal law protection of the circulation of medicinal products according to the legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria, and the Swiss Confederation. The materials of the research were the legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria, and the Swiss Confederation. Dialectical, axiological, comparative, and legal methods were applied during the research. Having studied the experience of the scope of criminal law protection of the circulation of medicinal products made it possible to conclude about the importance of having a certain legislative reference point that can help improve the criminal legislation of these and other countries and build a new model of the system of norms that ensure the criminal law protection of circulation of medicinal products. It has been concluded that in the criminal legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria, and the Swiss Confederation there is an "aspiration" of the legislator to ensure the most complete scope of criminal law protection of circulation of medicinal products by creating their own specific systems. It has been proposed to single out separate groups of signs of criminal protection of pharmaceutical activity, since the scope of such protection is not the same in such countries (but has a lot in common). This may be a certain legislative guideline of the systematization of norms that ensure the circulation of medicinal products from the point of view of their criminal law protection.