ADMINISTRATIVE FORMS AND METHODS OF ENSURING THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The article examines the forms and methods of administrative influence as tools for ensuring the economic security of entrepreneurial activity. The focus is on regulatory and organizational, control and supervision, licensing and registration, advisory and preventive forms of administrative activity, as well as their impact on the formation of a safe business environment. A structural and functional approach to the classification of methods of state influence in the field of public management of economic security is proposed. The article examines the administrative and legal dimension of the mechanisms for ensuring the economic security of entrepreneurship as one of the key areas of modern public administration. The author analyzes the legal nature of administrative forms and methods applied by executive authorities to business entities in conditions of economic instability, transformational transition and external aggression. The focus of the study is the classification of administrative forms: supervisory and control, licensing, registration, coordination and fiscal. Methods of administrative influence are identified: regulatory, inspection and preventive, public service tools, mechanisms of responsibility. Particular attention is paid to determining the balance between coercion and service, as well as the issue of legitimacy of interference in private economic initiative. The role of such institutions as the State Tax Service, the Antimonopoly Committee, the State Regulatory Service, the Financial Monitoring Service and local state administrations is considered. It is argued that administrative means in the system of ensuring economic security must comply with the principles of legal certainty, proportionality, openness and institutional accountability. The article offers the author's vision of an effective administrative and legal mechanism as a combination of preventive, stabilizing and compensatory measures aimed at the long-term economic sustainability of small and medium-sized businesses.