The institute of executive support service is of key importance among the institutional components of service law (civil service, service with local self-government bodies, disciplinary responsibility, promotion, etc.). It is a system component of public service in the relevant branch of legislation.

The purpose of the article is to establish and elucidate the legal nature of the relations inherent in the executive support service as the basic foundation for clarifying the place they hold within the subject matter of administrative and service law, and also the correlation with civil service and service with local self-government bodies, the criteria for determining the list of positions of the staff performing service functions, and the prospects of adaptation to the European standards and principles.

For this purpose, the article examines the views of administrative law scholars on the legal nature, concept, principles, current status and development prospects of the executive support service presented in publications which can be conditionally divided, firstly, into those where the executive support service is viewed at in the context of examining other institutions of service law; secondly, those specifically focused on the issues of the executive support service. The authors analyze the provisions of major regulatory documents which had a regulatory impact on the establishment and development of the executive support service in Ukraine.

As a result of this study, the authors believe that there are grounds for the following: a) to recognize that the executive support service is an essential resource for ensuring the efficient functioning of relevant categories of public servants; b) a legal means of ensuring the evolutionary development of the legal and organizational foundations of official relations; c) an appropriate tool conductive to the establishment of a politically impartial, professional, efficient, citizen-oriented public service which would function to the benefit of the State and society; d) relations of the executive support service are regulated by the rules of service law, which, on its part, is a sub-branch of administrative law.

Hence it appears that the executive support service has an administrative and legal nature. It is a legally singled out system of legal provisions which assure an integral regulation of a particular type of official relations, i.e., it has its own subject matter of regulation. This evidences that the executive support service is an institution of service law.

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Edited books

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Thesis

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