PECULIARITIES OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BUREAU OF ECONOMIC SECURITY OF UKRAINE AS AN ENTITY IN THE PROTECTION OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY: THEORETICAL AND LEGAL OVERVIEW

The article is devoted to the issue of theoretical and legal review of steps to establish the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine as a subject for the protection of the national economy. It is emphasized that, given the novelty and, consequently, the lack of research on a wide range of issues regarding the existing legal status of the institution, the focus should be on the historical aspect. It is seen that the application of this approach will contribute to the completeness and comprehensiveness of the study and the meaningful disclosure of many problematic vectors of the functioning of the analyzed subject. In order to facilitate the logic of the research material, a conditional starting point was identified, which became a real «impetus» for the implementation of measures to establish a new body to protect the national economy (ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union). Energy and their Member States, on the other hand, dated June 27, 2014 (hereinafter referred to as the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU). It is proposed to represent this gradation as follows: 1) the period from the moment of ratification of the Association Agreement of Ukraine with the EU dated June 27, 2014 until the beginning of implementation of measures to establish and launch the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (September 16, 2014 — July 2, 2020); 2) the period from the beginning of the implementation of measures for the creation and launch of the research subject to the present (02.07.2020 — present). The first stage focused on draft legislative acts, which, according to the authors, were to form the legal basis for the activities of the institution, as well as a comparative description of the latter. Within the framework of the second stage research, the documents (drafts and normative legal acts) that form the basis of the work of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine were considered and analyzed.