THE HETEROGENEITY OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY AS A FACTOR IN THE SYSTEMATIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATION

The article examines the question of the concept of business activity. It is concluded that this conceptcovers various types of human activity that cannot be reduced to entrepreneurship. The category «businessactivity» is not used in the Russian civil legislation, which is its significant drawback. In general, jurisprudencepays little attention to this generic category. In this regard, the main type of this activity is not fullyunderstood — entrepreneurial activity. There is no clarity as to the whole variety of business activity;there is no criterion in the legislation that allows in law enforcement practice to confidently distinguishentrepreneurship from other types of business activity. Based on the analysis of domestic pre-revolutionaryliterature on commercial law and modern foreign trade codifications, proposals were made to improveRussian legislation. In particular, it is proposed to distinguish between entrepreneurial and other types ofactivities according to such a criterion as the professional implementation of activities.