PROBLEMS OF APPLYING LEGAL TECHNIQUES AND TERMINOLOGY IN ECONOMIC AND ECONOMIC PROCEDURAL LEGISLATION OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article examines the problems of applying legal techniques and terminology in some legal acts of economic and economic procedural legislation. Attention is drawn to the shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies of the provisions of individual norms of the specified legal acts, the cause of which is non-compliance with the rules of legal technique and the unsuccessful use of legal terms. In addition, the inconsistency of the terms with the legal concepts that take place in economic legislation consists in not taking into account (not reflecting) the content of the corresponding legal concept and the absence of systematic logical connections between the terms. Four main variants of anomalies in the application of terms in the economic legislation of Ukraine are highlighted: the use of terms that do not reflect the content of legal concepts; the use of the same term to designate legal concepts different in content; the use of different terms to name legal concepts that are identical in content; the use of other terms in the normative-legal acts of the current economic legislation, including those contrary to the terms of the Economic Code of Ukraine. It is noted that certain shortcomings are inherent not only in the current laws, but also in the draft laws under consideration in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. As an example, the draft Law of Ukraine “On the peculiarities of regulation of entrepreneurial activity of certain types of legal entities and their associations in the transition period” is given. The shortcomings of legal technique and legal terminology in the Economic Procedural Code of Ukraine are analyzed. It is claimed that the presence of deficiencies in economic and economic procedural legislation, which are revealed in the process of law enforcement, indicates an inappropriate level of application of legal techniques and terminology at the stage of development and adoption of regulatory legal acts by the competent state bodies, which undoubtedly harms their law enforcement and to some extent discredits the legal system of Ukraine.