Public administration system and civil service in Ukraine: transformation to the European standards

Today in Ukraine, the following problems emerge full blown: reforming the public administration system and civil service, improving the regulatory framework for their functioning, extending the rights and powers of local self-government authorities, bringing their activities into compliance with the EU requirements, enshrining and creating mechanisms for implementing such principles as the balance of centralization and decentralization, ubiquity, subsidiarity and capacity, as well as the transformation of the civil service institution according to the European standards. Therefore, the main purpose of the work is to assess the system of public administration and civil service of Ukraine. Using the method of analysis, it was found that in the conditions of the socio-economic and political turbulence caused by internal and external factors, the public administration institute of Ukraine faces a wide range of problems, including such as the negative balance of the society’s trust, the lack of balance of centralization and decentralization of the state administration system, bad communication both within the power structures and between the state and society, shortage of qualified personnel, low quality of administrative services and insufficient level of moral and ethical consciousness of civil servants. However, at the present time, such a number of innovations aimed at improving the performance and ensuring the quality of civil service should be noted: separation of administrative and political positions; clarification of the legal status of a civil servant; separation of civil service from political activity; establishing an exhaustive list of persons who are not subject to the civil service legislation; introduction of a new approach to the classification of civil servants’ positions; a competency-based approach to the selection of candidates for the civil service; defining legislatively common approaches to entry, performance and separation from civil service; improving professional skills and professional training of civil servants, their labor remuneration, bonus payment and encouraging, as well as disciplinary responsibility

state policy, central executive bodies, local self-governance, policy-making