DOI: 10.46340/eppd.2024.11.5.3
Tamara Lozynska, D.Sc. in Public Administration
Poltava State Agrarian University, Ukraine
Andriy Stoika
Poltava State Agrarian University, Ukraine
Oleksandr Kalian, PhD in Law
Poltava State Agrarian University, Ukraine
Bohdan Strilets, PhD in Law
Poltava State Agrarian University, Ukraine
How to cite: Lozynska, T., Stoika, A., Kalian, O., & Strilets, B. (2024). New Principles of Formation of State Supervision over the Legality in the System of Local Self-Government. Evropský politický a právní diskurz, 11, 5, 24-34. https://doi.org/10.46340/eppd.2024.11.5.3
Abstract
In 2016, the system of state control over the legality of decisions of local self-government bodies, within which general supervision was entrusted to the prosecutor’s office, was abolished, but a new mechanism for such supervision has not yet been created. The lack of a new mechanism of state supervision over the legality of decisions of local self-government bodies increases the risks of the spread of legal nihilism and does not meet the goals of Ukraine’s European integration. Hence there is a need to substantiate the new principles of building a system of state supervision over the legality of decision-making by local self-government bodies.
The reasons for the change in the mechanisms of state supervision over the legality in local self-government have been identified. The trends of the transformation of the system of local self-government and state control over the legality of the activities of local self-government bodies are outlined. The conclusions of representatives of local self-government bodies and experts regarding the principles of state supervision are systematized. The components of the general model of state supervision over the legality of decision-making by local self-government bodies are substantiated. Conclusions regarding the architecture of the model of state supervision have been formed. The main principle of the formation of the system of state supervision over the legality of decision-making by local self-government bodies is to maintain a balance between the freedom of decision-making and the pressure of the force of laws in the decentralized sphere of public administration. It is fundamentally important to separate three types of supervision (administrative, financial, and public) and three components of the general supervision model: supervision by state institutions, internal supervision, and public control.
Keywords: state supervision, state control, legality, local self-government, self-government principle, self-government model.
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