The Legal Nature of Subordinate Organizations as Objects of Anti-Corruption Regulation

Introduction. The article examines the essence and legal status of “organizations created to perform tasks assigned to federal government agencies” as objects of anti-corruption regulation. Individual defects in law enforcement in this area are identified and analyzed. Methodology and materials. This study is based on a substantive analysis of applicable sources of national legal regulation of anti-corruption activities in relation to the above-mentioned organizations, acts of “soft law” - methodological materials and official explanations issued by authorized state authorities, and current scientific research. At the same time, the purpose of this study is directly to determine the legal nature of such organizations in the context of national anticorruption regulation. Research results and their discussion. The examination and substantive analysis of the array of normative and scientific research material on the specified topic made it possible to identify the problem of not always proper distribution to the relevant organizations as a whole and their employees of the system of restrictions, prohibitions and obligations established for the purpose of combating corruption, other related obligations, as well as the implementation of the possibility of applying measures of responsibility for committed offenses, which is associated with the legal uncertainty of the perception and identification of these organizations.