The processes of European integration, adaptation of domestic legislation to the EU legal framework require high-quality legal regulation and perfect legislation, understanding of the problems associated with legal restrictions, and the formation of the main provisions of their scientific concept, which would correspond to the conditions that have been developed in society and would be aimed at improving the effectiveness of the legal system. The dissertation solves a scientific task, the main purpose of which is to establish and use restrictions in domestic law, that is to maintain a balance of interests of the individual, social groups, the state and society, to set a reasonable compromise between social necessity and the interests of the subject. In the sphere of power relations, they serve to ensure the stability of authorities. Determining the limits of authority for state bodies, political organizations and officials, legal restrictions perform the task of minimizing arbitrariness and abuse on their part, maintaining public safety and the unhindered exercise of human rights and freedoms. The thesis identifies the nature of legal restrictions, reveals their characteristic features, and formulates the author's definition of the concept of "legal restriction" as a legal tool aimed at keeping the subject within certain limits in order to regulate social relations and prevent actions that can harm the interests of the individual and society by influencing the internal structure of the personality through the formation of appropriate motives and attitudes. Legal restrictions act as legal ways of ensuring the interests of legal subjects, determining the ways of satisfying these interests. Being an integral element of legal regimes, they operate only in combination with other means. Legal restrictions are established in legislation and are provided by the power of the state and belong to the sphere of appropriateness, as they require certain behavior.
The issue of the psychological basis of legal restrictions is considered and the stages and methods of their influence on subjects are revealed. Legal restrictions are being classified on various grounds and directions, thus creating an idea of their system, hierarchy and functions performing. The place and role of restrictions in the legal system is analyzed, it is determined what social tasks they can solve, where and in what order they can and should be used in practical legal activity to achieve significant results.
The conditions that guarantee the legality of the application of legal restrictions and ensure their implementation are determined. Specific directions for the optimization of legal restrictions at the current stage of prospects having been opened up for Ukraine in connection with its acquisition of the status of a candidate for EU membership have been formulated, in particular: bringing regulatory acts into compliance with international standards; further improvement of legislation; bringing into the system the restrictions of different levels (interstate, national, municipal); social conditioning and scientific validity of application and use; increasing the legality and effectiveness of restrictions during legal implementation; creation of real guarantees of legitimate implementation of restrictive measures; legal comprehensive education for all sections of the population.
