THE CONCEPT AND STRUCTURE OF THE COMPETENCE OF STATE INSPECTIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

The topicality of the article consists in the fact that at the present stage of development of the system of Executive authorities, the competence of state inspections is defined differently. It depends on the level of organization of the state inspections. At the Federal level, they are not provided with independent jurisdiction because they are not separate Federal bodies of Executive power, and their authority derives from the competence of those ministries and services in which they are organized. At the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation of the state, Inspectorate may be established as an independent body that determines that it has its own expertise in the implementation of Supervisory activities. However, the presence of a single generic term «state inspection» requires a uniform approach to the definition of the competence of state inspections as well as determining its content. The scientific novelty of this article is that based on the analysis of different approaches presented in the scientific literature; it formulated the definition of the competence of state inspections, which is relevant to the current stage of development of the system of state bodies; it identified the elements that make up this concept. The article emphasizes the necessity of selection of subjects of conducting and powers of state inspection as the most significant elements of their competence.