The article is devoted to the issue of the improvement of athletes and sports organizations' competitiveness assessment in order to justify the necessity of its (competitiveness) legal regulation. The findings of foreign and domestic studies have contributed to the development of integrated model in order to assess the competitiveness of athletes and sports organizations. The results of its adaptation confirm the apodictic character of the model. A comparative analysis of the sports legal regulation in Europe and Russia has underscored the necessity of legal regulation in the sphere of registration and provability of the results of athletic achievements. However, it is notable that the scientific works are primarily devoted to the analysis of sports achievements and exclude the assessment of athletes' competitiveness. Thus, the assessment of athletes' competitiveness will contribute to their promotion in "sports market" and influence the competitiveness of a sports organization.

The article is dedicated to monitoring the competitive environment in the retail motor fuel markets in order to establish a dominant position vertically integrated oil companies (VIOCs) in regional markets dictating pricing policy to its participants. The methodology is represented by the instructions for preparation of an analytical report on the competitive situation in the small-scale wholesale motor and diesel fuel markets based on the "Procedure for analysing the competitive situation in the product market" approved by the RF FAS Order as of April 28, 2010 No. 220, the concentration index, and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index. The authors conclude that in the context of collective dominance, sales volume of refined petroleum products in terms of value increasingly characterizes the proportion of an economic entity in the market. At that, the methodological guidelines for the preparation of an analytical report on the competitive environment in diesel fuel retail markets shall be supplemented by the correlation and determination indices, allowing evaluation of the closeness of the relationship for the level of profits, export-import operations, government influence on the market participants, and market concentration index.

The article is focused on the analysis of the statutory legal acts of Altai Krai for physical training and sports from the standpoint of compliance with the rules of legislative technology. The authors note that there is no single abridgement of such rules, and this, in particular, is the cause of many technical defects in the legislation. Therefore, the position of those researchers who propose to pass a special act is supported, which would enshrine in law the proper requirements and rules of legislative technology. The study has considered the criteria often mentioned by researchers in the relevant literature.Some of them are: compliance with the distribution of the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Federation established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, lack of excessive duplication of federal legislation, provision of consistency, completeness and detail of legal regulation, present norms regulating relations with reference to regional specificity. The analysishas been applied to: Act of Altai Krai of 11.09.2008 N 68-ЗС «On Physical Training and Sports in Altai Krai» and Statutory Order of Altai Krai Administration dated 04.03.2011 N 100 «On the Strategy for the Development of Physical Training and Sports in Altai Kraifor the Period up to 2020».Overoll, they have received a positive assessment, both in terms of content and writing technique. Yet some problems have been identified. An inconsistency with the distribution of the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the constituent entities of the Russian Federation established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation has beennoted, and a proposal has been formulated to exclude the corresponding provision from the regional act. There has been revealed the presence of duplications of federal legislation that do not carry amessage. Examples of norms with their detailed analysis have been given, where the consistency, completeness and detail of legal regulation are not provided. Proposals have been formulated to expand the provisions aimed at addressing issueswith reference to regional specificity.

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Introduction. In modern conditions of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, physical culture and sport are the key to the formation of a healthy lifestyle of the population and are important indicators of the success of the Russians participating in various sports events at various levels. At the same time, the number of people involved in physical education and sports in Russia is insignificant, due to the insufficient level of citizens' legal awareness, the inaccessibility of receiving high-quality services in this area, the underdeveloped infrastructure, and the presence of gaps and conflicts in the legal regulation of this block of public relations. One of the ways to solve these problems is to develop a system of sources of legal regulation of sports relations. Purpose. Based on the studied sources of legal impact on sports relations in Russia and foreign countries, theoretical developments and materials of judicial practice, the authors attempted to form a model of legal regulation of sports relations. Methodology. The authors in the process of writing the article used formal legal, logical, systemic and comparative legal methods. Results. A study of existing sources of Russian and foreign law governing sports relations suggests the presence of a complex multi-level system of legal regulation. The state level of legal impact is represented by a set of regulatory legal acts, which are formal sources of regulation of sports relations. The non-state level includes customs, unified rules, other recommendatory acts, as well as local and contractual norms created by the participants in sports relations themselves, taking into account the specifics of the relations established between them. Conclusion. Based on the analysis of various sources regulating relations in the field of physical culture and sports in Russia and foreign countries, the authors propose a model of legal regulation of sports relations in the Russian Federation, which is a multi-level system of sources of state and non-state influence on the behavior of participants in these relations. It is concluded that it is necessary to expand the dispositive principles in the system of legal regulation of sports relations through the active use of such regulators as local and contractual rulemaking, as well as other forms of non-state influence on the behavior of participants in these relations.