Legal Regulation of Enforcement Officers’ Powers in Ukraine under Martial Law: Adopting Advanced Foreign Experience

Abstract

The introduction briefly outlines the issues of the topic under study. The primary goal of the study is to, based on the study of the normative regulation of the powers of court enforcement officers and other bodies (officials) in Ukraine under martial law and in foreign countries (in particular, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), propose ways to modernize Ukraine’s enforcement legislation through the adoption of international expertise in a similar sphere. Diverse methods of inquiry were applied throughout the study, the majority of which were the following: the methods of analysis, synthesis, hermeneutic, and comparative methods. The results highlight the necessity of improving legal regulation of executive proceedings, especially due to expanding the powers of private enforcement agents, the transformation of the tasks of state enforcement authorities, and the role of private enforcement agents. The conclusions of the article contain a generalization of the solution to the problems of the article, which is embodied in specific proposals aimed at optimizing Ukrainian legislation in the sphere of enforcement proceedings, in particular, expanding the powers of enforcement officers and the tasks of executive proceedings. The legislative expansion of the tasks of compulsory execution is an important step in the further reform of the powers of court enforcement officers, in particular, through their expansion. It is necessary to make the enforcement of decisions more effective. The article was prepared as part of the scholarship work of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The article was prepared as part of the scientific (scientific and technical) work “Enforcement of decisions of courts, other bodies (officials)” (state registration number: 0125U003345).