The dissertation is devoted to a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the administrative and legal mechanism for implementing anti-doping activities in sports. The work clarifies the essence of the state policy on preventing and combating the use of doping in sports as an object of administrative and legal research. It is determined that state policy appears both as an instrument of managerial influence and as a form of legal organization of social priorities. In this sense, its content is determined both by a set of government decisions and by the state's ability to institutionalize socially significant needs in the form of a consistent system of goals, procedures and responsible subjects. For the field of anti-doping activity, this means that the effectiveness of the policy depends not so much on the intensity of control measures as on the quality of the legal construction of the anti-doping model itself. In other words, the decisive factor is how coherently regulatory regulation, institutional architecture, preventive activities, coordination mechanisms and legal response procedures are combined within a single policy. On the other hand, the emphasis on the continuity and cyclicality of the political process seems important, since it is these characteristics that allow us to understand anti-doping policy as a dynamic system that must constantly adapt to new challenges. In the field of sports, this is of fundamental importance, because doping practices, methods of concealing them, control technologies and international standards do not remain unchanged. Therefore, state policy in this area cannot be built on the model of a one-time regulatory response; it should function as a mechanism for constantly updating legal decisions, reviewing management approaches and correcting institutional actions. In this dimension, anti-doping policy acquires the features of not a static regulatory scheme, but an adaptive legal system capable of maintaining its effectiveness in the conditions of a changing sports environment.
The legal nature and types of tasks, principles and directions of anti-doping activities in sports are characterized. It is noted that the tasks define the public purpose and boundaries of competence of anti-doping subjects and it is they who justify why the state intervenes in sports legal relations, what management functions are permissible, and what results should be achieved through procedures and decisions. It has been established that the principles, in turn, perform a guarantee and legitimizing role. Thanks to the principles, anti-doping administration acquires the features of a legal process, carried out on the basis of legality, legal certainty, proportionality and ensuring the right to protection, maintaining an appropriate balance between the public interest and human rights. The directions of anti-doping activity in sports serve as a means of streamlining administrative activity, as they allow to delimit the competence of subjects, determine the internal logic of procedural elements, form the basis for assessing the effectiveness of public administration, as well as for further improving the regulatory and organizational support of the anti-doping sphere. They allow structurally dividing anti-doping activity into separate functional blocks - from rule-making and prevention to testing, investigations, jurisdictional response and international cooperation, which, as a result, ensures the construction of a manageable, measurable and accountable system.
