The object of the study is the international legal
experience of the procedure of bringing civil
servants to justice under the conditions of special
legal regimes of foreign countries. The subject of
the study is social relations that arise, change,
and cease under the application of responsibility
to civil servants in foreign countries.
Theoretical Framework or Literature Review
During the analysis of the international
experience of prosecuting civil servants under
special legal regimes, the works of the following
authors were analyzed. Thus, Andriychuk (2009)
analyzed the principle of transparency of
communication between state authorities and the
population through a conceptual vision. The
researcher concluded that transparency as a
principle of communication between state
authorities and the public is a complex
phenomenon, the meaning of which goes beyond
the simple provision of information to citizens.
The formation of the public's understanding of all
aspects of the activities of state authorities, which
this principle should provide for, makes it
possible to characterize it as the appropriate
quality of public life, a type of social relations
built on mutual understanding between these
authorities and the population.
Moreover, Aleynikova (2022) investigated the
peculiarities of civil service in the conditions of
martial law. In particular, the article notes the
rights and obligations of civil servants, as well as
the restrictions caused by the state of war in
Ukraine.
Further, Anishchenko (2022) investigated the
issue of compliance with the standards of legal
responsibility during the organization of the
procedural procedure for bringing civil servants
to disciplinary responsibility. The author
concluded that the norms of the current
legislation on disciplinary responsibility should
be revised in terms of the implementation of the
procedural procedure for bringing civil servants
to responsibility and formed in compliance with
the standards of legal responsibility, to direct
them to achieve the optimal degree of
orderliness, since disciplinary responsibility is
one of the types of legal responsibility. Also, in
the opinion of the author, the Procedure for
Conducting Disciplinary Proceedings and the
Procedure for Accounting and Working with
Disciplinary Cases need to be amended and
brought into line with the Procedure for
Accounting and Working with Disciplinary
Cases, in which it is necessary to define in detail
the procedure for familiarization with case
materials, as well as to detail the procedure for
determining the place of familiarization with the
disciplinary case and making changes to the
Procedure for Conducting Disciplinary
Proceedings and defining a separate rule in it
regarding the rights of the lawyer / another
authorized representative in the process of
conducting the disc plenary proceedings.
The problematic issues of the institute of
disciplinary responsibility of civil servants are
studied in the work of Vladovska and Trach
(2020). According to the authors, the disciplinary
responsibility of civil servants is an institution of
labor law, which consists in applying negative
consequences of a legal nature to the guilty
person in the event of a disciplinary offense
committed by him, with the aim of compensation
for damage, termination and prevention of
violations of official discipline in the future.
Also, the authors emphasize that the investigated
institute has undergone significant reform since
its creation and now needs further improvement
in the following aspects: elimination of
legislative conflict and duplication of provisions
on determining the disciplinary responsibility of
a civil servant and the grounds for bringing a civil
servant to disciplinary responsibility; canceling
the exhaustive list of types of disciplinary
offenses and establishing the possibility of their
extended interpretation; expanding the list of
disciplinary sanctions by supplementing it with a
fine; establishing the possibility of applying
alternative disciplinary sanctions for a
specifically committed disciplinary offense; to
create a specialized court for bringing civil
servants to disciplinary responsibility.
A comparative analysis of the organization of the
civil service in Germany, Australia, and Ukraine
was carried out by Geivakh (2012). The main
principles of European Union law and their
application in public administration became the
object of research by Hrytsiak (2004).
Also, Gubanov (2016) carried out a comparative
analysis of the procedure for bringing civil
servants to disciplinary responsibility in Ukraine
and Germany. Summarizing the analysis of the
disciplinary legislation of Ukraine and the
Federal Republic of Germany, the author
concluded that, in contrast to the disciplinary
responsibility of employees according to the
norms of labor law, the detailed regulation of the
procedure for bringing civil servants to
disciplinary responsibility is aimed at protecting
precisely public legal interests, ensuring the
proper level of public administration, stability
and authority of the state.