Публічний реєстр: поняття, правова природа та основні види

The article, based on current legislation, examines the concept, legal nature and main types of public registers. The object of the study is public relations regarding public registers. The subject of the study is the norms of constitutional, administrative, information and other branches of law by means of which public registers are regulated. The methodological basis is general scientific and private scientific research methods: systematic approach, historical, logical, comparative legal, systemic and structural, formal and legal, statistical, functional methods. The purpose of the article is to analyze the concept of a public register in terms of its characteristics and features. In recent years, many diverse information arrays have been created and continue to be formed, functioning in the sphere of state-authority relations, economics, social security, medicine, etc. Registration has public legal goals - protecting the interests of participants in civil turnover, the state and society. This is achieved through the recognition of rights by the state, the establishment of legal means of protecting these rights. A public register is understood as a state information resource of legally and socially significant information that performs registration, accounting and regulatory and management functions. It is indicated that a wide range of regulatory and legal acts regulates the institution of state registration. In legal literature, it is characterized as a complex legal institution that combines the norms of various branches of law that regulate relations regarding the emergence, change and termination of rights, based on a combination of methods of mainly administrative and civil law regulation. The characteristics of a public register are: the register is an information and communication system; performs the functions of collecting, accumulating, protecting, accounting, reflecting, processing and providing information; is owned by the state, local government bodies or business entities; is created by an authorized body in accordance with current legislation; the registered information is accessible, complete, up-to-date and reliable.