THE CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES OF LOCAL PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN UKRAINE

Abstract

It is substantiated that the foundations for building an effective mechanism for functioning of the system of local public authorities, and for providing them with administrative services are contained at the constitutional level of provision. The main purpose of introducing a system of administrative services is to reorganize the existing system of relations between the individual and public authorities, aimed at facilitating the procedures for reviewing citizens’ appeals, and to ensure prompt decisionmaking of individual nature by the relevant public authorities. The decentralization reform initiated in Ukraine within the framework of the Euro integration processes, unfortunately not implemented today, certainly gives the local level of public authorities more responsibility. Improvement of the system of administrative services provision should ensure both the realization and guarantee of human and citizen’s rights and freedoms, as well as the optimization of the organization and functioning of local public authorities. It is suggested to consider under the constitutional principles of the system of providing administrative services to local public authorities, the system of constitutional rules and principles that determine the procedure for exercising the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of individuals and legal entities, by appealing to local public authorities and obtaining the result in the form of administrative services. The constitutional basis of the system of providing administrative services by local public authorities are, first of all, the norms of the Constitution of Ukraine, which stipulate that human rights and freedoms and their guarantees determine the content and orientation of the activity of the state, these norms are enshrined, in particular in Art. 3, 8, 21 of the Basic Law. The norms of the constitution are a guideline for the formation of the state apparatus, empowerment of state authorities and local self-government bodies, and reflect that any activity of a public defect authority should be primarily aimed at ensuring the rights and freedoms of the individual and citizen, ensuring such condition of social relations in which the needs and interests of all people in society are taken into account. It is found out that the registration individual entrepreneurs, legal entities, public organizations, items related to registration of residence, obtaining a passport of a citizen of Ukraine, related to ownership of real estate, land use, construction are carried out at the local level. The position on the necessity of carrying out administrative-territorial and municipal reforms is substantiated to ensure real decentralization of local public authorities, which will become the basis for the implementation of the «One Stop Services» in Ukraine.