The dissertation is devoted to the theoretical and practical problems of application of administrative discretion in the activities of public administration agencies of Ukraine. This scientific works reveals and analyses characteristic features, tendencies, problems and peculiarities of legal regulation and perspective of elaborating of its application. The author researches such categories as “discretion”, “administrative discretion”, “limits of administrative discretion”, “value judgment” etc.
The dissertation produces the analysis of regulatory basis of application of administrative discretion in the activities of public administration agencies, while in the result we can state that this regulatory basis includes the array regulatory legal acts of legislative and by-law character, which are directed on regulation of relations relating to the realization of discretionary powers of public administration agencies within law-making and law-application activities.
The research gives characteristics of the principles of administrative discretion within the public administration activities, emphasizing the main pertaining to the topic: rule of law, legality, humanism, proportionality, impartiality, equality before the law, justice, inadmissibility of abuse of law, good faith, reasonableness, variability (selectivity), purposefulness, integrity, consistency, scientificity, competence, responsibility, etc.
In the course of the scientific work the author studies the forms of realization of administrative discretion in the public administration activities: adopting regulatory acts, individual legal regulatory acts, concluding administrative agreements, making other legally significant acts (concluding acts-deals, inaction).
The research analyses the legal nature of the limits of administrative discretion within the public administration activities; proposes author definition of the concept: it is a type of legal restrictions of the public administration activities specifically stipulated in regulatory acts by means of relevant legal mechanisms, which defines the boundaries within which the public administration agencies have the possibility of the strong-willed choice of the optimal settlement of legal issue.
Peculiarities of application of administrative discretion in activity of public administration agencies in the conditions of extraordinary legal regulation are investigated as well. It was found that extraordinary legal regulation causes the growth of the application of imperative principles in the legal influence on public relations, increases the limits of discretion, freedom of discretion of public administration bodies in law enforcement and rule-making, allows the transgression of their own competence defined by law for ordinary situations.
The influence of administrative discretion in the activity of public administration agencies on corruption relations is investigated by the author. It is proved that the corruption of administrative discretion in the activities of public administration agencies lies in the potential possibility of exercising or not exercising their powers, as well as in the reasons and terms of their exercising.
The ways of optimizing the limits of administrative discretion in the activity of public administration agencies are investigated.
In order to improve and elaborate the regulatory basis for implementation of administrative discretion within the public administration activities the author proposes to adopt the Law of Ukraine «On Administrative Procedure» and the Law of Ukraine «On Regulatory Acts».
With the aim of reinforcing the monitor-controlling state function over the application of administrative discretion in law-making and law-application activities of public administration agencies, the current dissertation proposes to adopt a range of amendments to the Law of Ukraine «On Local State Administrations» and the Law of Ukraine «On Local Government in Ukraine».
