The legal nature of strategic planning acts

Introduction. The research is aimed at determining the legal nature of strategic planning acts, their features, place and role in the system of legal acts. Currently, several thousand strategic planning acts have been adopted and are in force at all three levels (according to the Federal Register of Strategic Planning Documents), while acts are being adopted, both provided and not provided for by the Law on Strategic Planning. In addition, many strategic planning acts are not included in the State Register, which makes it difficult to analyze the whole picture of the current strategic planning in the country and the relevant acts. Purpose. It is necessary to systematize them theoretically and form practical directions for optimizing such a system and increasing its effectiveness. This determines the need for a detailed study of this category of acts. Methods. The framework for the research is general scientific, specific scientific and special methods of cognition, among which the dialectical method, ascent from the abstract to the concrete, analysis and synthesis, generalization, comparative jurisprudence, etc. occupy the main place. Results. The consideration of strategic planning acts through various legal concepts does not reveal their legal nature. Strategic planning acts are atypical mixed legal acts that integrate the elements of different legal nature (non-normative provisions, normative legal regulations and non-normative (individual) legal regulations) within the framework of one legal act. Conclusions. Normative legal regulations in strategic planning acts are mainly represented by atypical legal regulations, but may also contain “typical” legal norms.