IMPROVING THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCILS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES

Abstract

This paper analyses the organizational and legal status of the standing committees of the Councils of People's Deputies and their place within the system of representative oversight. Standing committees are assessed as institutions that subject matters submitted to a session to preliminary expert examination, monitor the implementation of adopted decisions, and return identified problems to the Council agenda. Applying formal-legal, functional, institutional and modelling methods, the study substantiates the need to organize committee activity as an integrated cycle of normative filtering, institutional monitoring and feedback. The paper argues that a committee opinion should not constitute an absolutely binding determination, but should acquire the status of a procedural document that cannot be disregarded without justification. On this basis, it advances proposals for mandatory discussion of committee opinions at sessions, for recording the reasons for rejecting an opinion in the minutes, for strengthening expert and analytical support, and for clarifying the legal consequences of monitoring results. The study also identifies its own methodological limitations and the need for subsequent empirical verification.