CUSTOMS FORMALITIES FOR FOREIGN WARSHIPS, THEIR ARMS AND CREWS IN THE UKRAINIAN PORTS

The article is devoted to determining the current state and ways to improve the legal  regulation of customs formalities for foreign warships, their arms and crews in the Ukrainian  ports. The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to find the optimal model of legal  regulation for such activities in Ukraine as the state port and the fragmentation of current  legal research in the field of custom port formalities. The purpose of the article is to define  the current state of organizational and legal regulation for the implementation of customs  formalities for foreign warships, their arms and crews in the Ukrainian seaports, outlining  possible ways to update and improve it. The methodological basis of the research is formed by  general scientific and special legal methods of scientific knowledge (dialectical, analysis and  synthesis, scientific abstraction, forecasting). The task of the article is to develop proposals  for improving the legal regulation of customs formalities applicable to foreign warships in  the Ukrainian ports. The article characterizes and analyzes the provisions of law, regulations  and local acts in force in the Ukrainian seaports. It is noted that the current legislation of  Ukraine, according to the established practice of navigation and customary norms embodied  in international treaties, defines a special procedure for customs formalities in respect of  foreign warships, their arms and crews. The characteristic feature of such legislation is that  almost identical rules on such formalities are placed in different normative acts of different  legal force. This specifies the necessity to develop a universal normative document that would  define all aspects of entry, stay and leaving the inland waters for foreign warships, in particular  to the waters of the Ukrainian seaports.