Issue: № 4, 2025
Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2025.4.20
The paper reveals the role and problems of administrative and legal regulation of public procurement in Ukraine. In our country, the problems of administrative and legal regulation of public procurement have been fully resolved for quite a long time. Relevant discussions on the modernization or updating of legislation in the field of administrative and legal regulation of public procurement in Ukraine have not stopped for several decades. The problem is also aggravated by the fact that the situation in the country is worsening, prices are growing, and with them the scale of public procurement for the implementation of the tasks and functions of the state. Attention is paid to the analysis of the current state of regulation of the public procurement procedure in Ukraine, which is determined in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Public Procurement", which, despite its rather short age, has been changed more than thirty times. That is, the procedure has changed significantly in a short period of time. The Law defines a number of principles for conducting public procurement, but most of them are declarative in nature. The focus is on the problems associated with the public procurement procedure, which is regulated by administrative and legal norms contained in laws and subordinate regulatory legal acts. The most unregulated situation in the field of public procurement was in 2022. The state machine was only adapting to operate in new, uncharacteristic conditions for it. Later, the situation gradually began to improve, but it is still quite far from an acceptable level. This requires significant reform of tender legislation and improvement of the work of state control structures. It is extremely important to establish the causes and conditions that cause and contribute to abuse in the field of public procurement. The public should also be an important factor in conducting public procurement at all levels. Improvement of administrative and legal norms in the field of public procurement should be carried out taking into account positive foreign experience.
Keywords : administrative law, public procurement, administrative and legal regulation, administrative liability, legal relations, supervision, tenders, state control, state regulation, economic activity, economic law, entrepreneurship, enterprise
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