ADMINISTRATIVE LIABILITY OF LEGAL ENTITIES AS LEGAL CATEGORY

INTRODUCTION The issues of legal regulation of administrative responsibility of legal entities have always been relevant for legal science and practice. So, during 2014, the participants of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine conducted 217 field inspections of legal entities to comply with the requirements of the legislation on the protection of economic competition. Based on the results of these inspections, consideration was started of 196 cases of violation of the law on the protection of economic competition and 159 recommendations were given on termination of actions (inaction) containing signs of offenses. As a result of the measures taken by the Committee, a total of 5341 violations of the law on the protection of economic competition were stopped, of which 2416 (45.2%) were stopped by making decisions on the application of liability provided by law1. As can be seen from the above statistics, 45.2% of offenders were prosecuted for violation of the law on the protection of economic competition, fines were imposed on them in a total amount of more than 99300000 UAH. In modern conditions, the activities of the state in the field of responsibility of legal entities have led to the fact that in different branches of law, scientists separately distinguish such types of responsibility of legal entities as financial, economic, economic, etc.2. In this case, the main attention is paid to such signs as, for example, the method of charging fines, the nature of the sanctions imposed on the ffender, and more3. On the other hand, it should be noted the lack of systematization of the administrative responsibility of legal entities by the legislator. The legislation on the administrative responsibility of legal entities in Ukraine does not constitute a coherent system, it is dispersed and unsystematic. The Institute of Administrative Responsibility of Legal Entities in modern conditions contains many gaps and debatable issues, but there is no reason to deny its existence.