Rule-making: concepts and principles of organization
Authors: Bobrovnyk S. V. 
Published: January 2025

An important feature of modern society is the complication of its functioning, which is associated with the influence of various factors, the main of which is the need to reform the main spheres of its life activity. This, in turn, determines the need to clarify the initial stage of legal regulation, within which the goals, purpose and objectives of the regulatory influence of the state on society are defined and which is called rule-making. Being an important type of legal activity, rule-making is an independent legal category that has a fundamental character and occupies an appropriate place in the system of derived legal concepts and phenomena.
Rule-making is defined as the purposeful legal activity regulated by legislation of subjects authorized to adopt, change or cancel normative legal acts, which is carried out within the scope of competence in established procedural and procedural forms in accordance with normatively established requirements (principles).
The principles of law-making are studied as relatively independent ideas and requirements that have a scientifically based basis, are reflected normatively, are characteristic at all stages of rule-making, ensuring its unity and systematicity. The principles of rule-making are classified into:
a)universal, developed by international practice and inherent in all types of rule-making without exception; b) general, which correspond to the general principles of law and ensure the unity of rule-making; c) special ones that determine the peculiarities of rule-making as an independent type of legal activity.
The principle of the rule of law in rule-making ensures the rule of law over the authoritative decisions of the state; emphasizes the importance of law in the system of means of social regulation.
The principle of scientific validity of rule-making has a multifaceted content and is manifested in: the presence of professional rule-designers capable of ensuring the development of scientifically balanced and practically required normative acts.
The principle of humanism in the field of rule-making consists in the perception of rule-makers as a social value; creation of social values, principles and norms according to which society functions. The principle of justice ensures, in the process of rule-making, implementation to legal reality: objective justice, which characterizes the state as social and ensures social protection of subjects.
Among the general principles, the principle of legal certainty as a component of the principle of the rule of law ensures the predictability of normative legal acts in the context of the consequences of their application.
The principle of proportionality is important in the aspect of clarifying the democratic nature of law-making.
The principle of planned rule-making has a practical direction, thanks to which the priority areas of normative regulation are determined, the subjects of rule-making and the compliance of their activities with the granted powers are clarified.
The transparency of rule-making, which is ensured by the principle of publicity, is of great importance in the system of special principles.
The principle of legality, the principle of democracy, the principle of scientificity.
Thus, the presence of defined principles, their normative consolidation and implementation in rule-making practice ensures objectivity, scientificity, unity and effectiveness of rule-making as an important type of law-making activity.