INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND

Abstract

Annotation. The publication examines the issues of theory and practice of the structure and functioning of the civil service management system in the Republic of Poland, as an example for proper law-making and law enforcement practice of modernization of the civil service management system in Ukraine in the process of our country’s accession to the European Union and its post-war reconstruction. It is noted that after the military aggression of the Russian Federation, which began on February 24, 2022, the corps of civil servants of Ukraine, on the one hand, began to implement its tasks and functions under martial law (introduction of remote forms of work for certain categories of employees, suspension of competitions for civil service positions, etc. Today, Ukraine has announced the optimization of the civil service management system and a significant reduction of the civil service corps. In this context, it is important for Ukraine to analyze, systematize and summarize the positive experience of the Republic of Poland in «creating a civil service» in 1998-2022 and establishing an effective system of public administration. The model of civil service management organization in Poland is comprehensively analyzed and the tasks, goals and functions of its main actors are characterized: The Head of the Civil Service, the Director General of the Government, the Civil Service Council, the High Disciplinary Commission of the Civil Service, the Civil Service Department, the Lech Kaczyński National School of Public Administration. The proposals for improving administrative law-making and law enforcement practice in Ukraine to optimize the management system of the national civil service in the legal and administrative realities of today are substantiated.