Advancing the Legal Competences of Public Officials through the Administrative Consultation Platform: A Conceptual and Empirical Approach

In this article has been considered the levels of communication in the public administration system. It is noted that communication issues in public administration remain relevant despite the numerous studies dedicated to this topic. This is because modern public administration is oriented towards the concept of "Good Governance" and therefore must meet the requirements of social and humanitarian significance, being open, accessible, accountable, transparent, interactive, and responsive to citizens' demands, adhering to the "subject-subject" principle of communication participants. An attempt has been made to analyze the concept of public administration from the perspectives of communicative and activity-based approaches, which helped to examine the levels of communication and provide examples.Public administration, first and foremost, is an open system of human interactions, which involves feedback, engagement of broad segments of the population in social participation, allowing considering public administration as a communicative process and communicative activity. From the perspective of the activity paradigm, public administration is a collective action of subjects aimed at achieving consensus. In this context, communication in public administration involves information exchange through various channels and at different levels, interaction, and mutual assistance, which encourages the development of creative non-standard solutions, contributing to the effectiveness of public administration. All these processes occur at horizontal and vertical levels, which can also be considered as mega, meso, macro, and micro levels, or institutional, interpersonal, and societal levels of communication between subjects of public administration. The conclusion is drawn that the public administration system operates at different levels of communication, facilitating interaction with the public and civil society institutions, establishing effective cooperation between government officials and local government officials, transparency, and public involvement in decision-making. Therefore, dialogical relations, based on principles of tolerance, mutual respect, and equality of parties, should be prioritized in this system, ensuring the consolidation of society around addressing urgent issues and trust in the public administration system.

Administrative appeal is one of alternative ways to the court proceeding of administrative cases in relations with public administration. Administrative appeal is examined to be considered in three main areas: firstly, as an independent way of prompt protection of a person in their relations with public administration bodies and restoration of violated rights and freedoms of natural persons, rights and legitimate interests of legal entities; secondly, as a way for citizens to control the lawfulness of the public administration bodies' activities; and thirdly, as an optional stage of administrative procedure when resolving a specific administrative case. Administrative appeal is determined to be one of core human and civil rights' guarantees in relations with public administration bodies, and this right provides an opportunity to appeal against a decision, action or inaction of public administration violating rights and legitimate interests both natural persons and legal entities. Administrative appeal is regulated by a number of administrative law provisions and can be considered as a separate institution of modern administrative law. Administrative appeal's institution in Ukraine has a complicated history. For a long time, administrative appeal's issue was regulated fragmentary. Most attention to appeal was paid in tax legislation and in Code of Ukraine on administrative offences. Nevertheless, over recent years, this institution has undergone a significant upgrade. Significant changes to administrative appeal occurred with adoption of Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure" (2022). Positive experience of member states of the EU was taken into account in this Law in the settlement of the mentioned issue. The Law sets forth basic principles that should guide an administrative body during the consideration of complaint: the supremacy of law, including lawfulness and legal certainty; equality before the law; reasonableness; impartiality (fairness) of the administrative body (unlawful interest is not allowed in case's resolution); good faith and prudence; proportionality; openness; timeliness and reasonable term; efficiency (in other words, proper case resolution); presumption of person's legitimacy on actions and claims; formality; guarantee of right of the individual to participate in the administrative proceeding; guarantee of efficient legal remedies (individual always retains the right to further judicial protection). The main changes include: possibility to file a complaint orally or in writing (in paper or electronic) form; to file in person or through a representative; to take part in complaint's consideration; to file objections of officials that hear the case; establishment of a complaints commission in local self-government body. Administrative appeal is an efficient and costeffective way to resolve an administrative case and eliminate barriers on implementation of rights, freedoms and legitimate rights of natural persons and legal entities. The Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure" has introduced new mechanisms aimed at ensuring the administrative appeal procedure. It is concluded that, for today the issue of harmonization the rules on administrative appeal and bringing them in line with the rules established by the Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure" remains relevant. Keywords: administrative body, complaint, public administration, local self-government body, procedure.

Effective enforcement of competition law is vital for the functioning of competitive markets. As competition authorities are constrained by scarce financial and human resources, it is neither possible, nor desirable, to enforce every possible competition law infringement. Hence, the power to set priorities – that is the competition authorities’ legal competence and de facto ability to choose which cases to pursue and which to disregard - is a precondition for preserving society’s resources to tackle the most harmful infringements. Credible enforcement priorities build independent and accountable competition authorities. A degree of discretion to set enforcement priorities, therefore, serves a double purpose of effective allocation of scarce resources and the concretisation of the open-ended and broadly formulated competition law norms. At the same time, the exercise of such discretion is subject to external and internal constraints and influenced by substantive, procedural, and institutional rules guiding the authorities’ course of action. Despite its importance, the theoretical foundations and practices underlying the setting of enforcement priorities in competition law are vastly unexplored in Europe: they remain largely overlooked by policy and decision-makers; there is no clear set of definitions or criteria to guide prioritisation; and effective accountability mechanisms to evaluate and reform prioritisation choices remain underdeveloped or are completely absent. In particular, the question of priority setting had limited relevance in the enforcement of EU competition law for many years. Under the pre-2004 notification based and centralised regime, the Commission had devoted much of its resources to respond to notifications, leaving only limited room to devise its enforcement strategy. Even after the shift to the decentralised enforcement regime, which enabled the Commission and national competition authorities to set their priorities, there are few EU law provisions to guide the priority setting principles and practices of the competition authorities. This remains valid even after the implementation period of the ECN+ Directive has ended. This Policy Report fills this gap by offering four main contributions: first, it introduces a new theoretical framework, developed by the authors to establish a common typology to guide the analysis of priority setting rules and practices. More specifically, the Report identifies seven different legal, economic, and political aspects of setting priorities for competition law enforcement, each of which may be subject to external or internal control. Those seven aspects include: (i) setting an enforcement agenda; (ii) legal (de jure) competence to prioritise; (iii) (de facto) ability to prioritise; (iv) procedural rules framing the prioritisation decision; (v) substantive criteria that determine which cases are priority and which are not; (vi) alternative enforcement mechanisms: instrument and outcome discretion; and (vii) impact assessment. Second, the Report provides a systematic and comprehensive mapping of the procedural and substantive priority setting rules and practices guiding the competition authorities of the 27 EU Member States, the United Kingdom, and the EU Commission according to the proposed typology. Pointing to a great divergence in this regard, it demonstrates that each competition authority’s priority setting powers and practices are deeply embedded in, and directly shaped by its respective administrative law systems and constitutional and political order. Accordingly, the Report classifies the competition authorities into four representative models on the basis of their specific rules and practices to set their enforcement priorities. Third, the priority setting rules and practices are evaluated against a set of administrative law principles of good governance, including effectiveness, efficiency, independence, transparency, and accountability. The Report demonstrates that each of the four representative models entail a different trade-off between those administrative law principles. Fourth, based on the above, the Report provides policy options (a “checklist”) on how legislators and CAs could review and if necessary, reform their existing practices or design new priority setting rules and practices to meet the administrative law principles of good governance. Notably, the Report does not intend to provide a single best model for priority setting. Rather, it offers competition authorities legal and practical solutions on how to design and apply priority setting in a way that fits their respective legal framework and mandate, thereby offering country-specific trade-offs.

In Belarus, the national doctrine of administrative law has been oriented to a large extent towards the Soviet and modern Russian legal traditions, albeit with some distinct contextual features. In this work, we review the positions of some of the most authoritative scholars, and make a number of summative judgements and conclusions. The primary aim of administrative law is to provide and create a regulatory framework for the exercise by the government authorities of their mandate and powers. The objective of administrative law is to govern and regulate the interactions between the executive power and other legal subjects in the performance of its functions. In the Belarusian doctrine, the predominant position of most scholars is that the scope of administrative law should include the administrative legal relations arising in the course of the exercise by the public administration bodies of their administrative functions, including of regulatory mandates towards external bodies, and in relation to the enjoyment by the citizens of their rights and liberties. In Belarus, the system of administrative law is customarily understood as an ordered framework composed of institutions, norms and domains, which may be divided into four sections. The first section encompasses the institutions that determine the legal status in the area of public administration of the citizen, of state bodies, of non-governmental organizations and of civil servants, it also incorporate the institutions that exercise control over the subjects of administrative law. The second section encompasses the regulations that govern liability under administrative law. The third section incorporates the norms of administrative procedure. The fourth section includes provisions that constitute the administrative legal framework for the management of the economy, socio-cultural and other spheres. Each section is comprised of the relevant legal institutions and sectors. The greatest challenge for administrative law of in Belarus seems to be the definition of the administrative procedure, which has not changed since the Soviet period. The alternative propositions presented in this work are of a purely theoretical character and should eventually be superseded by a legal definition, which views it as a distinct type of legal procedure governed by the norms of administrative procedure law grounded mainly in the Code of Execution Procedure for administrative torts. The legal term “administrative procedure” in Republic of Belarus is still identical to the concepts “administrative tort procedure” or “procedure for the hearing of administrative tort cases”. The main method of this study is that of integrated comparative analysis, with elements of the historical and formal-logical method. As a part of a comprehensive study in administrative law in the former Soviet Union, this work is intended to make a contribution to academic debate, by deepening and broadening its scope.

PROTOCOL: Participation, inclusion, transparency and accountability (PITA) to improve public services in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

In consideration of the fact that public administrations worldwide face a number of challenges, many governments are dedicated to improving the ethical climate in public administrations. The same issue is also the focus of the attention of many transnational associations. The basic goal is to ensure the development of comparable ethical climates, ethical behaviour in different public administrations and to develop comparable, suitable ethics infrastructures to enable this. Modern public administrations must bring ethical conduct to the fore and resist unethical behaviour. There are different ideas on how to build ethics infrastructures in public administrations, and examples of good practice that could facilitate the development of such infrastructures are found in the public and private sectors of different countries. In this paper, we connect ethics infrastructures and ethical climates. The evaluation of Slovenia’s ethics infrastructures is based on the framework prepared by the OECD, using its questionnaire developed by Victor and Cullen. The results show that there is no general relationship between ethics infrastructures and ethical climates in public administrations. Nevertheless, some determinants of ethics infrastructures correlate to a high degree to the ethical climate, the strongest impact on ethics climates being the ethical infrastructure’s determinant “public involvement and scrutiny”.

The article is devoted to highlighting the problematic issues of development and application of legislation regarding the provision of administrative procedures in Ukraine. The article analyzes the current state of administrative and legal regulation of administrative procedures, highlights the main problematic aspects of administrative legislation in this area, and suggests ways of development. The analysis of the provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure" was carried out, the positive aspects and problematic issues of the administrative and legal norms of this legislative act were highlighted. The article draws attention to innovations related to the definition of basic and key concepts and categories that determine the administrative procedure, the rights of the subjects of the appeal, the powers of public authorities regarding the content of their discretionary powers, informing and advising participants in administrative proceedings on issues related to administrative procedures, as well as regarding the content of their rights and obligations. Detailed attention is paid to the issue of competition between the norms of the Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure" with special legislation, problems of the existence of evaluative concepts, etc. The article states that the absence of effective legislation on administrative procedure in our country reduces the level of public service activity of public administration, prevents Ukraine from approaching European standards of good governance, creates conditions for the existence of corruption risks and violations of the rights of individuals by subjects of public administration. It turns out that the importance of effective and efficient legislation that regulates administrative procedures is difficult to overestimate in the context of observing and protecting the rights and interests of a person in relations with subjects of public administration. It is justified that, unfortunately, Ukraine still does not have the appropriate unified administrative legislation that regulates administrative procedures. Therefore, the further development and unification of the Law of Ukraine «On Administrative Procedure» and special legislation is one of the primary tasks that our state must solve in the process of fulfilling European integration tasks and further reforms. Attention is drawn to the fact that in the process of improvement and unification of legislation on administrative procedure, the best European practices of legal regulation of procedural activities of public administration should be taken into account. The new legislation on administrative procedure should be adapted to the standards of EU legislation in this area.

Обґрунтовано практичну та теоретичну актуальність дослідження і використання впливу корпоративної культури, соціальної відповідальності та лідерських вмінь керівників на забезпечення результативності трансформації компетенцій органів публічного управління. Проаналізовано у площині публічного управління взаємозв’язок процесів розвитку корпоративної культури, соціальної відповідальності, лідерства та визначено їх вплив на забезпечення результативності реалізації органами публічного управління своїх компетенцій. Проаналізовано стилі лідерства та обґрунтовано доцільність ширшого застосування трансформаційного лідерства як найбільш спроможного забезпечити розвиток корпоративної культури та практики соціальної відповідальності органів публічного управління для ефективної реалізації їх компетенцій.

Problem setting. An important prerequisite and key to successful implementation of the strategic course for the implementation of European standards of living in Ukraine and its entry into the leading positions in the world is the reform of public administration and decentralization in order to create an effective, transparent, open, flexible structure of public administration, transition from the centralized model of government in the state, ensuring the capacity of local self-government and building an effective system of territorial organization of government in Ukraine. Achieving this goal requires the establishment of a system of public administration, which ensures the coherence of competences of local government authorities, executive bodies and civil society institutions. Recent research and publications analysis. While researching the problem of coherencing the competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of establishing public administration system in Ukraine, it is advisable to use the scientific achievements of foreign and domestic scientists concerning the following issues: theoretical and methodological foundations of social transformations (D. Bell, N.Hrazhevska, O. Gromyko, O. Zhuravliov, L. Yevstigneeva, S. Erokhin, T. Zaslavska, E. Ivchenko, N. Makasheva, I. Markovych, M. Minenko, Y. Osipov, G. Pochenchuk, E. Toffler, S. Fillipova, P. Shtomka, Y. Yakovets); different aspects of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies (M. Bajmuratov, O. Batanov, Y. Boiko, Y. Buhlak, T. Buriak, I. Hrytsiak, O. Dniprov, M. Karpa, V. Kravchenko, O. Kuchabskyi, M. Orzikh, M. Oslavskyi, V. Pohorilko, O. Sushynskyi, V. Shapoval). Highlighting previously unsettled parts of the general problem. In the context of establishing public administration in Ukraine, it is advisable to study the problem of coherence of the competences of local government authorities and executive bodies as a systemic phenomenon in the plane of the transformation process. Paper main body. To be aware of the phenomenon of transformation in the public-managerial aspect, it is advisable to start from its classical interpretations. As a result, the systematic nature of the transformation of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of public administration has been revealed. It is a part of the transformation of society through decentralization of power, reform of public administration, local self-government and territorial organization of power, development of civil society and democracy. The very process of establishing public administration in Ukraine is also a subsystem of social transformation, and the problem of coherence of competences (managerial actions) of different entities becomes of universal importance. The coherence of managerial competences of the entities (state, local self-government, civil society institutions) to ensure the processes of social development forms the conceptual basis for public administration itself. There is substantiated the thesis about the necessity to ensure in conditions of establishing public administration in Ukraine the coordinated managerial influence on the development of social processes through not only optimal (harmonized) distribution of competences of subjects of state, self-governing and civic authority by means of their centralization, decentralization, deconcentration, delegation, subsidiarity and also coherence in the carrying out competences, as they are not only the determining elements of the legal status of a public authority, but they also are as a complex of its full powers to exercise the power as means of successful management. It is possible to achieve the maximum effect of the coherence of the activity of public authorities if the condition of regulating legal statuses and competences of the subjects are settled on the general conceptual principles of the public administration system. The general structural and functional model of distribution of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies is abstracted; its main shortcomings are analyzed. Conclusions of the research and prospects for further studies. It is established that harmonizing competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of public administration represents two interrelated processes: optimal allocation of competences of the subjects of state, self-government and civic authorities by means of their centralization, decentralization, deconcentration, delegation, subsidiarity; the coordination of actions of these entities in carrying out their competences. The coherence of competences of public authorities is a mean of ensuring both their successful activity and the effectiveness of public administration as a whole. Achieving the greatest effect of the coherence of the activity of public authorities seems possible only if regulation of legal statuses and competences of the subjects are settled on the general conceptual principles of the public administration system. Taking into account the importance of the personal factor in the processes of transformation of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of establishing an effective system of public administration in Ukraine, it is advisable to further focus the scientific research on the problem of influence of leadership skills of a leader on the implementation of the above-mentioned transformations in the activity of a public authority.

The development of modern civilization associated with the digital revolution poses entirely new challenges in terms of ethics for public administration. Whereas practical ethical instruments in the form of codes of best practice have already been developed for the profession of a lawyer or a doctor, the internal diversification of the profession of a public official (public authority officials, territorial self-government officials) as well as the transformation of public administration have not been conducive to the development of appropriate ethical standards. The author aims at providing an answer to the following question: on which axiological foundation should the code of a public official be based? On the one hand, historical background seems to be providing a definite answer, on the other, however, current depreciation of the profession of a public official as well as technological progress shed a new light on ethical reflections. Models used in public administration until now, i.e. the model of ideal bureaucracy, the accountability model, and the new public manager model, have not proven to be effective. Nevertheless, according to the author, the organizational culture within the frame of the good governance model constitutes a unique solution which can prove successful in public administration. At this point, the process of restitution of public officials’ ethos can be a relevant factor. It is so especially due to the fact that public officials’ ethos embodies a development area for educating professional public officials and constitutes a premise for a good functioning of public administration at the same time. Enumerating the drivers of growth for the public officials’ ethos in connection with a unique idea of the code of best practice based on the triad of integrity, benevolence, and accountability constitutes an axiological suggestion which is noteworthy for the deontology of the profession of a public official.

The relevance of the article is that the creation of a quality system of public administration in various spheres of society is a priority of the domestic public administration. In accordance with such areas, public administration in the field of circulation of medical equipment and medical supplies in Ukraine belongs, in particular, the administration is carried out through a system of state and non-state bodies. Accordingly, the subjects of public administration must create all the necessary conditions in our country to provide quality medical services and ensure the right of citizens to treatment and maintenance of life. In addition, before we begin to consider our issues, we need to clarify such legal concepts as "public administration", "public administration" and "as public administration". Thus, revealing the essence of the topic "Subjects of public administration in the field of circulation of medical equipment and medical supplies in Ukraine", we must consider the most important aspects of their activities and determine their list. The purpose of the article is to determine the main subjects of public administration in the field of circulation of medical equipment and medical goods in Ukraine on the basis of the works of legal scholars. It is determined that the State Service of Ukraine for Medicines and Drug Control as a subject of public administration in the field of circulation of medical equipment and medical supplies in Ukraine is one of the main bodies of public administration, which in accordance with its powers should control the circulation of medical equipment and goods for medical purposes in Ukraine, in particular, should also be introduced control over the electronic system of circulation of such funds (which should include all elements of their circulation - from the stage of creation to their disposal). Entities of public administration in the field of circulation of medical equipment and medical supplies in Ukraine are an organizational and structural set of administrative bodies that have legal authority to state interests in the import, production, supply and circulation of quality goods in the field of medical equipment and medical supplies.

The purpose of the research is to find out the subject of regulation and scope of the Law of Ukraine «on Administrative Procedure», as well as the directions of activity where this law does not work. Methods. The research was carried out by means of the method of formal logic, formal-legal analysis, analysis of legal categories and understanding and their correlation, which allowed to give answers to the questions outlined in the purpose of this scientific investigation. Results. The importance of the Law of Ukraine «on Administrative Procedure» to regulate relations between public administration and private person is emphasized. Its European integration essence is underlined. The importance of administrative procedure for public administration is analyzed. The emphasis was placed on the need for law enforcement activities to define the subject of legal regulation and the scope of the law. Analysis of such fundamental provisions of the law on administrative procedure as administrative case, publicity of legal relations, rights, freedoms and lawful interests of the person, duties of the person, administrative body, functions of public administration, administrative act was made. Their essence and meaning is drawn. The position on the possibility of realization and protection in administrative proceeding of legal interests of the person is substantiated. An approach to understanding the administrative body in its functional context has been formulated. Types of administrative acts are given. The scope of the Law of Ukraine “on Administrative Procedure” and the exceptions to it are outlined. Conclusions. The definition of the subject of regulation and scope of the Law of Ukraine «on Administrative Procedure» is important for law enforcement, as it allows to outline the nature of public relations and the spheres of activity that will be regulated by the LAP. The category «administrative body» is characterized by functional purpose, which has a consequence of expansion of the circle of subjects whose activity is subject to regulatory influence on the part of the LAP. With the adoption of the LAP, the realization and protection of legal interests of the person through the implementation of administrative proceedings have received legal regulation. This opens up opportunities for the settlement of administrative cases involving interested persons, which will allow to take into account the interests of all participants of the proceeding and to adopt administrative act that will satisfy public interests and needs of persons. An administrative act should be understood as a decision or legally significant action on granting a person a right, its realization, assigning to a person the duty stipulated by the law, refusing to exercise the right, about early termination of the act, which is carried out by its cancellation, withdrawal or recognition as invalid. The scope of the LAP is public administration, with the exception of the relations established by the law from its effect.

This article examines the role of the transformation of public authority as an institution and the problem of its subjects’ competence as factors in the state’s competitiveness as a subject of public administration in the context of the growing importance of knowledge and information. The author asserts that in the modern information society, where knowledge becomes the primary resource, states must adapt their administrative structures to remain competitive subjects of public administration. The author considers how the competence of the subjects of public authority affects the effectiveness of public administration and the state’s ability to respond to rapid changes in the global environment. Using PEST analysis to assess the impact of political, economic, social, and technological factors on the processes of transformation of public authority and the development of its competence, the author has managed to identify that political stability, economic development, social cohesion, and technological innovations are vital to enhancing the competitiveness of the state as a subject of public administration. Among the fundamental problems that hinder the provision of competitiveness of the state as a subject of effective public administration, the author examines the problem of the spread of unreliable information and the incompetence of the authorities in this context. In this regard, the author proposes several tools to solve these problems, including legislative changes, the development of media literacy, support for independent fact-checking initiatives, and increasing the competence of public authority. In conclusion, the author asserts that states that invest in developing knowledge and information technologies have the potential to achieve higher competitiveness. The author emphasizes that the management of information and knowledge becomes a critical element in strengthening the state’s competitiveness as a subject of public administration. The study of this problem contributes to a deeper understanding of how states can use the transformation of public authority and its competence to enhance their role on the international stage. The article is intended for reading by managers at all levels, politicians, and researchers interested in developing effective public administration strategies and enhancing the state’s competitiveness as a public administration subject. Keywords: power transformation, competence, competitiveness, institutional capacity, information society, knowledge, media literacy, innovation, political stability, technological development.

The article is devoted to the identification of subjects, which, under the conditions of administrative and legal reform and changes of the guidelines in the relations between the state and the citizen, carry out public administration. Emphasis is placed on the sphere of relations that cover the essence of public administration. It is proved that the effectiveness of administrative law through the lens of governance is doubtful and does not fully meet the requirements of the development of public relations. Therefore, it is necessary to return to the educational ideas of the functioning of the state and its interaction with citizens, which has a manifestation in public, not state; in administration, not government. The authors substantiate that public administration is the activity of public authorities, which manifests itself in a concerted influence on specific public relations by means of specific methods, tools, forms and aims to secure public interests. The relation between the concepts of "subject of public administration" and "public management" is investigated. The proposals of the leading Ukrainian administrative scientists regarding the essence of the category of "public management" are analyzed and the reasons for the dualism of approaches to its definition in the Ukrainian administrative and legal doctrine are revealed. In addition, the subjects of public administration are classified according to their competence, scope, functions, and objectives of public administration. The subject of the research is the subjects of public administration and their functions in administrative law. The purpose is a study of the institutional constituent of public administration and defining changes experienced by governing entities as a result of reformatting the concept of relations between the state and society in Ukraine. Methodological basis of the research is a set of methods and techniques of scientific knowledge. The methodological construction is based on a systemic analysis that determined its directions. The systemic approach in some issues was supplemented by the axiological (ideological) approach. Empirical methods such as observation, description, comparison, inductive generalization were used to identify tendencies of reforming the system of subjects of administrative law of Ukraine. Logical-semantic method was used for formulation and in-depth study of the conceptual apparatus. The dialectical method of cognition made it possible to investigate the problems associated with the definition of the concept of "public administration". The application of methods of modeling, analysis, synthesis, generalization and analogy made it possible to formulate the conclusions of the study. Conclusions of the research correlate with the delineation of the institutional component of public administration in Ukraine. The authors have made qualitative and quantitative changes concerning the updating of the subjects of administrative law. At the same time, in the conditions of development of Ukraine as a democratic and rule-of-law state, all reform initiatives should be systematic and consistent with each other, therefore, during the study, the features that characterize the subject of public administration are highlighted. The scientific and analytical monitoring of the state of the introduced changes and the consequences of the implemented administrative reform measures for the classification of the subjects of public administration was carried out. Practical implications. The results of the research will help to understand the basic aspects of the content of public administration better and can be used in the research field in order to further study the issue of transformational changes that governing subjects under the background of actualization of trends of democratization and humanization of administrative processes.

The article is devoted to the consideration of issues related to the definition of the concept of administrative procedures of state registration of civil status acts and the main criteria for its division. The relevance of the topic is determined by the fact that the leading place in the system of providing administrative procedures belongs to the institute of state registration of acts of civil status, which is carried out by various subjects of public administration on the basis of the norms of administrative law. Increasing attention to the problem of defining, streamlining and proper legal regulation of various procedures is due to the complexity and diversity of management, regulatory and control activities of public authorities. The purpose of the article is to define the concept of administrative procedures for state registration of acts of civil status and to highlight the main criteria of their types. Achieving the outlined goal became possible thanks to the use of a complex of methods of scientific knowledge, namely: the dialectical method, the logical-semantic, structural-functional method and the method of interpreting legal norms. Scientific positions on the interpretation of the essence of the concept of "administrative procedure" have been analyzed. On the basis of the conducted theoretical analysis, it was concluded that scientists are united by the thesis that the administrative procedure is directly related to the activity of public administration and is an established algorithm for the functioning of subjects of power (state authorities, local self-government bodies, their officials and officials, etc.). It is substantiated that the most convincing is the recognition of the administrative procedure as a complex normative regulator of the system of administrative-procedural norms, which determine the procedure for the implementation of certain types of actions by administrative bodies regarding the application of standardized administrative-legal measures as normatively fixed methods and techniques for the performance of state functions entrusted to these bodies . Attention is paid to the study of issues of classification of administrative procedures of state registration of acts of civil status according to separate criteria, distinguished by their own characteristics. On the basis of the conducted research, conclusions were formulated and recommendations were made for establishing at the legislative level the types of administrative procedures for state registration of civil status acts, grouped according to the relevant criteria.