Kobko Y. Administrative and Legal Mechanism for Ensuring National Security of the Country

The concept of the national security of the country as an object of administrative and legal security and protection has been defined; and its significance has been revealed. It has been argued that the national security of the country as an object of administrative and legal security and protection is a special sphere of social relations that arise in regard to the creation of safe conditions for the development and formation of society, where the purpose of their functioning is to timely identification and prevention of the occurrence of real and potential threats to national interests. It has been emphasized that the significance of administrative and legal security and protection of the national security is that it: a) ensures stable development of society and provides an opportunity for every individual citizen to freely develop and realize rights, freedoms and interests guaranteed by the Constitution; b) promotes active and effective economic and political development of the state and society; c) increases internal and external competitiveness of the state, as well as its image at the international arena; d) directly affects the level of trust of the population in the state in general, as well as in its agencies in particular. Special attention has been paid to the fact that this regulatory act has not resolved all problems related to the interaction and coordination of the entities of the national security in Ukraine, despite all positive changes offered by the Concept of ensuring the national stability system. In this regard, it has been suggested to develop a new by-law regulatory act: “Regulations on the interaction and coordination of the entities of the national security”, where it is necessary: first of all, to determine the authorized agency that will be responsible for the coordination of the entities ensuring the national security, in particular: a) to reveal its legal status; b) to establish the limits of its influence on social relations in this direction; c) to determine the limits of responsibility of the authorized coordination entity; secondly, to outline the range of entities ensuring the national security, as well as to establish the limits of their competence in order to avoid duplication of tasks and functions that they perform in the relevant field; thirdly, to establish the forms and methods of interaction of the relevant entities; fourth, to outline the sources of funding for the joint activities of the agencies and their officials while performing joint activities.