The Functional Competence of a Judge in Administrative Offense Proceedings

The article considers the functional competence of a judge in the proceedings on administrative offenses as an element of his administrative-procedural status. In this case, the competence is defined as the basis of this status and at the same time-as an element of the procedural and legal mechanism for the implementation of justice in cases of administrative offenses. Revealing the content of the functional competence of the judge, the paper analyzes his jurisdictional and organizational-guiding procedural powers and gives their characteristics.