The dissertation study provides a set of theoretical generalizations and offers new approaches to solving the scientific task of determining the content and features of the administrative and legal basis of the activity of the Security Service of Ukraine for the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as approximate ways of their improvement. The result of the conducted research was the formation of a number of provisions and conclusions aimed at achieving the goal of the research and fulfilling the set tasks.
It was found that state sovereignty and territorial integrity as an object of administrative and legal protection and protection have the following features:
1) regardless of the fact that state sovereignty and territorial integrity are not the main categories of administrative law, on a contract from international and constitutional law, the latter is protected and protected in the legal plane, by enshrining the relevant norms in international documents and the Constitution of Ukraine, including a time when in the administrative-legal plane such protection and protection is ensured not only by the presence of relevant legal norms, but also by specific actions of an organizational and administrative nature;
2) administrative-legal protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity is created systematically, in addition to administrative-legal protection, which takes place only in the event of an internal or external threat or the commission of administrative offenses that indirectly encroach on the specified values;
3) this process is not implemented in specific defensive and/or active offensive actions, but involves the mobilization of all state resources (political, economic, managerial, human, etc.) with the provision of individual elements of national, state and military security (state sovereignty and territorial integrity);
4) the specified activity is carried out with the help of non-standard tools, methods inherent in administrative law, and not through "traditional" methods of protection and protection, their implementation within the limits of administrative procedures, management processes and decisions is also specific.
The system of subjects for the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity is presented using a differentiated approach, by dividing these subjects by the nature of their powers into: 1) general subjects whose powers are not directly related to the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity, but their activity ensures the indicated direction (the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, courts); 2) special subjects whose main tasks are to ensure national, state and military security (the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the State Special Service of Transport, the State Service of Special Communications and Protection Information Service of Ukraine, Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, National Police of Ukraine, National Guard of Ukraine, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, State Border Service of Ukraine, State Migration Service of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine and Anti-Terrorist Center under the Security Service of Ukraine, Foreign Service intelligence of Ukraine, State Security Office of Ukraine, Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, Court Security Service).
In the system of subjects for the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Security Service of Ukraine occupies one of the main places, implementing its activities in the military and law enforcement spheres and at the same time being part of the intelligence community, as well as bringing to administrative responsibility persons who have committed offenses that encroach on state sovereignty and territorial integrity.
