Issue: № 7, 2023
Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2023.7.12
The paper is devoted to the essence of anti-corruption expertise in public administration. Scientific approaches to understanding the concept of «anti-corruption expertise» are considered. The author's definition of anti-corruption expertise in public administration is proposed as a public-authority activity of authorized subjects regarding the study of current normative legal acts and draft normative legal acts for the presence in them of corruptionogenic properties of norms that contribute or may contribute to the commission of corruption offenses or offenses related to related to corruption. It was established that anti-corruption expertise in public administration contributes to the identification and elimination of corruption-inducing factors in normative legal acts and drafts of normative legal acts in the field of activity of subjects of administrative legal relations. General and special features of anti-corruption examination in public administration are given. The general features of anti-corruption examination in public administration include the following: legal activity, carried out by a person or a group of persons, based on the norms of the law and subordinate legal acts, carried out on the basis of an officially approved research methodology, is a means of improving legal acts, based on the results of conducting a conclusion is made. The special features of anti-corruption examination in public administration include the following: the goal is to identify factors in current normative legal acts and draft normative legal acts that contribute or may contribute to the commission of corruption offenses or offenses related to corruption; subjects of the event (public authorities, natural persons, public associations, legal entities); the result is a normative legal act in which corruption-inducing factors are absent or minimized; expert conclusions are not retrospective, but prospective; is a means of preventing corruption.
Keywords : anti-corruption expertise, public administration, legal act, corruption, administrative and legal relations
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