International and National Legal Standards Regulating the Activities of Local Executive Bodies

The article examines the theoretical and organizational and practical aspects of local executive bodies based on the analysis of international and national legal standards of their regulation. The analysis of international standards of regulation of local executive bodies made it possible to identify key areas on which the Government's efforts should be focused in order to adapt the national political and administrative system to the international context. In our opinion, democratization of all spheres of public life and building of civil society in Ukraine are impossible without decentralization and deconcentration of state functions and powers, implementation of the principles of real local government based on: strategic approach to international policy; improvement of management systems of legislative and legal procedures; development and selection of high-quality subjects of local executive bodies. Reforming the activities of the executive branch and carrying out large-scale administrative reform in Ukraine will allow adapting internal structures to the new conditions of the international environment. The study of the genesis of administrative and legal regulation of the activities of executive bodies on the ground shows that local executive bodies occupy an important place in the system of state bodies. The implementation of the tasks of the state's domestic policy largely depends on their effectiveness at the local level. To achieve positive results in this area at the regional level, we consider it essential to ensure the optimal combination of centralization and decentralization in the exercise of state power, including in the delimitation and balancing of powers of local executive bodies and local governments. In addition, we see the need for detailed regulation of the competence of these bodies, the definition of their system, the structural links between its elements, the normative enshrinement in the relevant regulations