INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURS AS SUBJECTS SUPERVISED BY THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

Abstract

The object of the study is the social relations arising during the prosecutor’s super-vision over entrepreneurial activity. The study aims to analyze the status of an individual entrepreneur as a subject of legal relations arising during the prosecutor’s supervision over law enforcement and civil rights provision. The subject of the study is materials from prosecutor’s and law enforcement practice, statisti-cal data on the issue of law violation by an individual entrepreneur, regulations of legislation in force, and academicians’ perspectives on the matter. The authors emphasize contradictions in viewpoints on the issue of the possibility to supervise law implementation by individual entrepreneurs and the ambiguity of legal regulation of an individual entrepreneur’s status. At the same time, according to the data provided, there is no doubt about the need for a prosecutor to supervise how individual entrepreneurs follow the law, given the latter’s substantial number of law violations. The results of the study demonstrate that the legal status of individual entrepreneurs as special subjects of legal relations requires particular regulation. The authors suggest adding individual entre-preneurs in the list of subjects in “Subject of the Supervision” in Article 21 Part 1 and Article 26 Part 1 of the Law on prosecution due to the specificity of such subjects’ legal status, which differs from that of individuals and legal entities, and the need to provide prosecutor’s supervision.