INSTITUTE OF ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIM: CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

An administrative claim is one of the main institutions of administrative justice. To understand the institution of an administrative claim as a complex legal structure covering the right of a person to apply to an administrative court with a request, it is necessary to clarify the concept, legal nature, types of administrative claim.The purpose of the article is the theoretical and legal characteristics of the categories of the institution of administrative proceedings, the definition of the concept, the definition of the essence and structure of an administrative claim, the criterion for its classification, making proposals aimed at improving the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine.The methodological basis of the research is a combination of general scientific and special methods of cognition. The research is based on the dialectical method of scientific cognition of the phenomena of reality in their development and interrelation. The achievement of certain research objectives led to the use of such methods as: the historical and legal method – when analyzing claims in administrative proceedings, the system analysis method made it possible to consider an administrative claim as a single system with its own structure and dynamics of development. The methods of analysis and synthesis, structural-functional, synergetic and other methods were also used, which made it possible to comprehensively explore the problematic aspects of understanding the institution of administrative claims.An administrative claim is understood as a material claim of the plaintiff for the protection of rights, freedoms and interests in public law relations, addressed to an administrative court. Various approaches to the classification of administrative requirements depending on the content are described. The internal structure of the administrative claim is described, in connection with which the provisions of the legislation are analyzed. The substantive and procedural aspects of the claim are highlighted. Analyzes the legal requirements for an administrative claim. It is noted that within the framework of administrative legislation, in particular in the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine, the types of administrative requirements are not directly defined. It has been established that at the scientific and theoretical level, the main criteria for the classification of administrative claims are: the subject of an administrative claim, a method of procedural protection, a method of achieving procedural goals, the nature of material legal relations. The main tasks that an administrative claim solves as a procedural means of protecting rights, freedoms and interests in the field of public relations are determined.