LEGAL STATUS OF INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AUTHORITIES IN UKRAINE AND SWEDEN: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

This article outlines the legal status of the independent regulatory authorities in Ukraine and Sweden. Peculiarities that distinguish those authorities are investigated with the aim to show the reasons why they are having a special role in the structure of public administration. At the same time, the biggest attention is devoted to determination of the main features of Ukrainian and Swedish independent regulatory authorities systems. Basing on those features, a comparison of both systems is made. This comparison is quite interesting from the doctrinal point of view and definitely deserves attention, because countries that have been chosen for this analysis are characterized as those, whose systems of independent regulatory authorities are completely opposite (for example, Swedish system is considered as one of the oldest and Ukrainian is still in the process of its formation) and, at the same time, they have numerous similarities that are in details described in this article. To accomplish the research by giving a deep analysis of the outlined issue and successfully achieve formulated objectives, this article blueprints a general picture of legal status of independent regulatory authorities in Ukraine and Sweden and compares them. It has to be made clear that in order not to make this work too descriptive, but more analytical, the author is paying attention to the issues that have been revealed during the process of the topic research, outlining them in a conclusive manner to show a general picture of the existing situation, rather than only cite and describe the legislative provisions. Basing on the results that have been achieved during this research, conclusion part generalizes the whole information and detects the nowadays challenges that systems of independent regulatory authorities in both countries are facing.