State Standard of Ukraine DSTU 4163: 2020: Innovations and Problems

According to public interest, caused by the entry into force on 01.09.2021 of the state standard of Ukraine DSTU 4163:2020 «State unified system of documentation. State unified documentation system. Unified system of organizational and administrative documentation. Requirements for execution of documents» this article is an author’s attempt from a professional point of view based on a systems approach to find out and evaluate the essence and significance of the innovations of this standard in relation to their impact on the preparation and execution of organizational and administrative documentation. Comparative analysis of DSTU 4163:2020 with its predecessor DSTU 4163:2003 in the research process was carried out, also a wide source base was used. The article presents comparative characteristics of the structural and semantic structure of these standards and the composition of the document’s requisite indicating statistical and semantic differences using a tabular form. According to the author, the text shows the most significant innovations that distinguish DSTU 4163:2020 from DSTU 4163:2003. Based on the principle of historicism, the article examines retrospective and modern normative-legal relations DSTU 4163: 2020, on the basis of which the author concludes that this standard is completely independent of the normative rudiments of Soviet office work, the full ability of the standard within its status to fully regulate the issue of execution of organizational and administrative documentation, accumulating the most modern requirements of current national legislation in combination with its own innovations. According to the author, one of the problems identified in the research process is the disregard in the standard of changes in the territorial organization of authority that took place in Ukraine in the process of decentralization of power. As a result, the rules of the standard ignore certain issues execution of documents by local executive state administrations and local self-government bodies, which are confirmed by the examples given by the author. The study revealed within this problem of the requisite composition of the forms of local state administrations and local governments contradictions of certain normative-legal acts, legislative unregulated use of forms with the image of the State Emblem of Ukraine, the name of the state and its names by local state administrations and local self-government bodies, as well as some other problems. According to the author, the solution of the problems revealed in the research process is possible in case introduction of the changes offered by it to specifically defined legislative and by-laws.