Institutional and Regulatory Components of State Administration in the Field of Energy Security

Abstract

The article focuses on researching the issues of regulatory and institutional provision of energy security of the state. It has been established that the study of the functioning of the institutional component of energy security requires thorough inspection on the basis of systemicity and synergism, taking into account the basic principles of the redistribution of spheres of influence by clearly demarcating the spheres of competence, based on the transition from the sectoral to the functional principle of management organization, applying a functional audit. The analysis of regulatory and legal support made it possible to identify problems in the researched area, in particular, regarding the legal basis of the activities of independent energy regulators. The author carried out a thorough analysis of conceptual and basic sectoral normative legal acts in the field of energy. As part of the study, the issue of nuclear disarmament of Ukraine was considered, which began with the adoption of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine on July 16, 1990. It is worth emphasizing that the guarantees (assurances) reflected in the Memorandum on Security Guarantees in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons were formally defined and there is no mechanism for implementing the main principles of the strategic document. The author pays attention to the fact that the declarativeness of strategically important documents is a prerequisite for the reduction of national stability and the impossibility of effective implementation and protection of national interests. It was determined that since the energy space is being reformatted and the issue of research on strengthening the interaction of state authorities with local self-government bodies is being updated. The study focuses on the need to implement better international experience regarding the interaction of state authorities with local self-government bodies, beneficiaries, especially during destabilization processes, with the aim of building an effective system for achieving the set goals, improving the mechanism for detecting and counteracting the negative impact of exo- and endogenous factors.