Issues of State Regulation of Beekeeping in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The chapter aims to study issues of state regulation of beekeeping in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve the research objectives, the authors studied the issues of state regulation of the quality and safety of beekeeping products and investigated the patterns of combining beekeepers and beekeeping farms into clusters. The research methodology includes general scientific and private scientific methods of studying economic and legal relations, including the method of analysis and synthesis, the comparative-legal method, and others. Based on the scientific analysis carried out in the work, the authors conclude on the need to improve the system of legal regulation of the quality and safety of beekeeping products, particularly by establishing requirements for its authenticity (naturalness). The authors also proposed a cluster model for uniting beekeepers and beekeeping farms, which allowed overcoming the crisis phenomena caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and substantiated the need for state support of individual subjects of beekeeping activities and cluster associations of beekeepers. An effective state policy in the field of regulation of beekeeping and beekeeping activities is indeed a factor in the development of beekeeping and the agricultural industry in general and in overcoming the crisis in the economy caused by the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this regard, the authors consider the proposed measures as directions of state policy in the field of beekeeping in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.