Статтю присвячено аналізу сутності та змісту права мирних зібрань Німеччини через призму з"ясування місця такого правового утворення в системі адміністративного права Німеччини. Для досягнення поставленої мети автором стисло аналізується внутрішня побудова адміністративного права Німеччини. Робиться висновок, що право мирних зібрань є елементом поліцейського права, яке у свою чергу є структурним утворенням Особливого адміністративного права Німеччини. Окрему увагу приділено з"ясуванню змісту основних інститутів права мирних зібрань Німеччини.
The article is devoted to the analysis of the essence and content of law of peaceful protests in Germany through finding out the place of the mentioned legal formation in the system of administrative law. In thebeginning of the article the author makes a point about conducting of legal comparative researches and makes a conclusion about an obligatory necessity to take into consideration European legal practice and doctrine in the sphere which is considered. Inthe author’s view, necessity of this decision is caused by the fact that Ukrainian administrative courts limit the right to peaceful protests by private parties in many cases without any reason what in turn hampers democratic processes in Ukraine. La&ck of knowledge on modern European standards in the sphere of law of peaceful protests by the representatives of judicial power is mentioned as one of the causes of such situation.
In order to achieve the mentioned goal the author analyzes briefly t&he inner structure of German administrative law. It is stressed that this body of law consists of General Administrative Law and Special Administrative Law which in turn regulates separate spheres of activity of administrative agencies, forms a big c&ornerstone which is divided into separate branches such as municipal law, police law, construction law, traffic law, industrial and economic law, social law, school law, high school law and so on.
Special attention is paid to finding out of peculiar&ities and goal of German police law which is one of the main elements of Special Administrative Law. It was possible to conclude on the basis of conducted research that law of peaceful protests is the element of the system of police law. The reasons &and necessity to place the law of peaceful protests in the system of police law are explained.
The system of law of peaceful protests is considered. This law consists of the following elements: sources of law of peaceful protests; the main definitio&ns of the law of peaceful protests; legal status of the participants of peaceful protests; institute of informing about the planned peaceful protest; authorities of police in the sphere of organization and conducting of peaceful protests; peaceful pr&otests in closed premises; institute of liability for breaking procedure of organization and conducting of peaceful protest established by legislation. When the author analyzes the content of the institutes of German law of peaceful protests he refer&s to court practice, gives examples and makes a conclusion that German courts contributed to the concretization of the content of many provisions on law of peaceful protests.
The conclusion is made in the end of the article that it is necessary to t&ransform the system of administrative law of Ukraine which is directed on the following differentiation of its norms. To author’s view, only in such a way it will be possible to achieve a necessary level of specialization and training of subjects who& enforce law especially in the sphere of law of peaceful protests.