Martynenko D. Administrative and Legal Foundations of Transparency Securement in the Activities of Public Authorities

The relevance of the research topic is conditioned with need to implement the recommendations of the European Commission regarding the status of Ukraine for EU membership in terms of transparency of public administration, finances, and budget process; formation of citizens' trust in the activities of public authorities, provision of a proper public control over the activities of public authorities and their officials. As a result of the conducted research, along with a systematic analysis of the achievements of domestic and foreign jurisprudence, current legislation of Ukraine and foreign countries, EU law on ensuring the transparency of the activities of public authorities, the scientific task of an improvement of the transparency of the activities of public authorities has been solved, certain theoretical conclusions were formulated and a number of proposals for the national legislation in the researched area have been developed. It is noted that the solution of the scientific task of implementing transparency in the field of public administration involves an analysis of the human right to information as the basis for the implementation of such a principle, as well as the patterns of the post-industrial informational society development. Three factors have been specified that determined the need to find a new methodology for introducing transparency in the field of public administration. First of all, it is denationalization, privatization, deregulation; secondly, it is decentralization; thirdly, it is the integration of Ukraine into the EU and globalization in the conditions of the post- industrial informational society.