Some issues of normative and legal provision of administrative protection of the sphere of fuel and energy complex

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of regulatory and legal provision of administrative protection of the fuel and energy complex. It was determined that the administrative protection of the fuel and energy complex is an organizational and legal activity of public administration bodies, which is carried out to ensure the proper functioning of electric power, nuclear, coal, peat, oil and gas, and oil and gas processing complexes with the help of legally defined legal means.It has been established that the normative legal support is reflected in the set of normative legal acts of different legal force, the provisions of which regulate the sphere of administrative protection of the fuel and energy complex. It is noted that the coverage of the entire array of regulatory and legal acts from the specified direction is complicated due to their voluminous quantitative parameters. The gradation of normative legal acts was carried out depending on the subject of their impact on the substantive characteristics of the administrative protection of the fuel and energy complex by distinguishing: 1) normativelegal acts relating to the order of functioning of social relations related to the fuel and energy complex; 2) normative legal acts, which define the subjects of public administration and their powers to regulate public relations related tо the fuel and energy complex; 3) normative legal acts, which determine the procedure for bringing to administrative responsibility for violationsrelated to the functioning of the fuel and energy complex.The specifics of the functioning of the fuel and energy complex in a special period covering the time of the introduction of martial law were revealed. The list of public administration entities authorized to regulate public relations related to the fuel and energy complex primarily includes the bodies of executive power: the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry ofEnergy of Ukraine, the State Energy Supervision Inspectorate of Ukraine, the National Commission for State regulation in the spheres of energy and communal services.