Problems of application of the institution of procedural costs in criminal proceedings

The article is devoted to the problems related to the legal nature of procedural costs, the peculiarities of application in criminal proceedings, the consideration of procedural costs as a legal institution, which until recently was not given sufficient attention and was given auxiliary importance. The distinctive features of the legal institution are revealed. The article draws attention to the peculiarities of procedural costs in criminal proceedings, understanding the essence of procedural costs as a legal phenomenon. In the course of this research, methods of scientific cognition such as general scientific and private scientific methods, such as analysis and synthesis, system, formal-legal, logical-legal, comparative-legal are used. The scientific basis of the research was the work of process scientists who consider and study the problems of applying the institute of procedural costs in domestic and legislation, namely: K. N. Emelyanov, S. V. Bazhanov, S. R. Zelenin, Yu. V. Derishev. As a result of the study, it is concluded that the identified problems are caused by the controversial nature of many provisions concerning the concept and legal nature of procedural costs within the framework of criminal procedure science, which does not allow to resolve many issues of law enforcement both for the development of the legal system as a whole and the improvement of the institution under study.