The Practice of Challenging Normative Legal Acts of Executive Power Due to Violation of the Procedure for Their Publication

Official publication of a normative act is one of the most important conditions for its existence and its ability to fulfil its regulatory function. It is due to this procedure that the addressees of such act have an opportunity to get acquainted with its text in order to understand its content and further correlate their behavior with the norms reflected in it. The obligation to publish normative legal acts applies not only to legislation in the narrow sense, but also to other normative acts, including normative legal acts of executive authorities. This article analyses the current Russian court practice on the issue of judicial assessment of violations of the order of publication of such acts. The main arguments of the parties and positions of courts are studied, numerous examples of lack of uniformity of approaches in solving such cases are found.