ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF ENSURING TRANSPARENCY AS A BASIC PRINCIPLE OF TRANSPARENT LOBBYING IN THE PUBLIC ADMI

Abstract

Introduction. The significance of transparency as a structural principle of the lobbying system is substantiated and it is determined that transparency is a practical tool for ensuring accountability and control of government, the effectiveness of interaction between citizens and state institutions, and the prevention of corruption and abuse.

Purpose. Theoretical and legal understanding of transparency as a basic principle of institutionalizing transparent lobbying in the public administration system and determining the main directions of its organizational and legal support.

Materials and methods. Formal legal and comparative legal methods were used in combination with methods of interpretation and prediction, as well as general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and classification.

Results. A theoretical and legal study of transparency as a principle of lobbying was carried out by means of a comparative analysis of the concepts of "transparency", "openness", "publicity", "accountability" and determining their connection with lobbying, as well as a comparative analysis of the concepts of "lobbying" and "lobbyism". Based on the above analysis and generalization, the author's formulation of the definition of transparent lobbying was formulated.

The structure of the system of organizational and legal mechanisms for ensuring the transparency of lobbying was formed by assigning to it institutional mechanisms for accounting for lobbying entities, information and reporting mechanisms, procedural mechanisms for openness in decision-making, and control and supervisory mechanisms, which in general are designed to ensure openness, controllability and accountability of interaction between lobbying entities and public authorities.

Prospects. The definition of transparency in the field of lobbying as an integrative characteristic of openness, publicity and accountability of public authorities allows us to consider it as a key principle of institutionalization and legal regulation of lobbying. Promising directions for improving organizational and legal mechanisms for ensuring transparency of lobbying are formulated, which is a necessary condition for the formation of a legitimate and transparent mechanism for representing interests in the public administration system.