Self-regulatory organizations as legal entities of public law

The subject. The legal status of self-regulatory organizations based on the principle of mandatory membership was chosen as the subject of the research. The purpose of the article is to study the features of subjects of administrative law, vested with public powers, and substantiate the possibility of attribution of self-regulatory organizations with mandatory membership to legal entities of public law. The methodological basis for the study: general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, comparison, description) as well as formal-legal interpretation of legislation and judicial acts. Results, scope of application. Two types of subjects can take part in administrative relations, as a rule: subjects performing public functions and endowed with authority for their implementation, and subjects not endowed with appropriate powers and representing an exclusively private interest. At the same time, the first group of subjects includes not only public-territorial entities, state authorities, but also organizations performing publicly significant functions. The legal definition of a legal entity does not reflect all the features of the legal status of these subjects, that is why the author refers to the concept of a legal entity of public law. Legal entities of public law have a special nature, different from legal entities of private law, since they have the right to make decisions affecting an indefinite range of persons. Conclusions. The analysis of the features of the legal entity of public law allocated in the literature (special legal nature; special social quality; special interests and will; connection with the public power; special way of creation; public-legal character of responsibility) allowed to justify that self-regulatory organizations are the kind of legal entities of public law - organizations performing publicly significant functions.