The Problems of regulating the procedural definition of legal persons as subjects of administrative responsibility

ENAlthough undifferentiated regulation has been in place in criminal justice for almost a few decades to guarantee procedural rights to legal persons, however, in administrative law, this issue is still left to the discretion of the various agencies, with the risk of not guaranteeing the procedural rights of all legal entities held liable. Consequently, the object of the research of this article is the procedural definition of the status of legal persons in special laws providing for the administrative liability of these persons, and the article seeks to analyse the specificities and issues of this differentiated regulation in comparison with the standards set for natural persons to define their procedural position. The article uses basic research methods suchas document analysis, systematic analysis, comparative analysis, and generalization methods. The analysis substantiated inconsistent regulation of the procedural rights of defence of legal persons and related procedural terms in special laws providing foradministrative liability of these persons, which significantly exceed the standards set for administrative liability of natural persons without ensuring the implementation of the principle of equality in administrative proceedingsKeywords: legal person, administrative liability, procedural time limits, right of defence. [From the publication]