Emergency Legal Mechanism of Humanitarian Logistics in Public Health Emergencies
(Beijing Wuzi University,Beijing101149,China)
Abstract:Humanitarian logistics provide public health emergencies with warehousing,communication,and distribution service;and it plays an important role in controlling the epidemic situation. After the coronavirus outbreak,charities and individuals at home and abroad quickly donated a lot of emergency supplies. In this situation,the humanitarian logistics mechanism responded quickly and worked in accordance with relevant laws and regulations,but at the same time it showed that there were deficiencies in regulations. China's emergency legal system for public health emergencies is composed of relevant separate laws and administrative regulations,departmental regulations,and local regulations. The current practice in public health emergencies shows that some of the laws and regulations related to humanitarian logistics have problems of low legal effectiveness and lack of specific provisions for certain issues. There are still deficiencies in communications health quarantine, administrative expropriation,and terminal logistics distribution. Therefore,we need to further clarify relevant laws,implement the communications health quarantine and make administrative expropriation procedures clearer,and we must strengthen the supervision of humanitarian logistics during and after the event. In this way,we can promote the construction of a legal system for humanitarian logistics in public health emergencies in China from the perspectives of legislation,law enforcement,and law compliance to help effectively prevent and control the epidemic.
Key words:public health emergencies;humanitarian logistics;emergency legal system;communications health quaran⁃ tine;administrative expropriation