THE CONTENT OF PUBLIC OVERSIGHT AS A FUNDAMENTAL FUNCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND AN OBJECT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REGULATION

The purpose of this article is to formulate the foundations for ensuring effective and result-oriented public oversight as a fundamental function of civil society and as an object of administrative and legal regulation.Results.Public oversight is defined as the purposeful activity of members of the public (natural persons -citizens of Ukraine, foreign nationals; and legal entitiespublic organizations, representatives of institutions and enterprises), aimed at supervising the adherence of public authorities to legality, discipline, protection of human rights and freedoms, and the exercise of the powers vested in them.One of the key tasks of the theoretical framework of administrative law science is to overcome terminological inaccuracies, eliminate vagueness and definitional uncertainty.At the same time, the formulation of authorial definitions is often impossible without correlating similar or identical terms.Thus, within the scope of this section, it is necessary, in our opinion, to analyze and compare the concept of "public oversight", particularly the main scientific approaches of domestic and foreign scholars, with other related categories.Such related concepts include social oversight, civil oversight, public control, etc.The process of correlating similar or identical concepts makes it possible to establish interrelationships, connections, or, conversely, differences, which, in turn, stimulates a deeper analysis of the studied phenomena and the identification of their essential characteristics and features.Conclusions.Based on the analysis of public oversight as a fundamental function of civil society, the following conclusions are drawn: the concept of "oversight" forms the theoretical basis for defining and identifying the characteristics of public oversight; public oversight as an object of administrative and legal regulation should be understood as the purposeful activity of members of the public (natural persons -citizens of Ukraine, foreign nationals; and legal entities -public organizations, representatives of institutions and enterprises), aimed at supervising the adherence of public authorities to legality, discipline, protection of human rights and freedoms, and the exercise of the powers vested in them.Ensuring effective and result-oriented public oversight is a necessary precondition for state development, as restricting citizen participation may lead to the lack of accountability of public authorities.