Administrative and legal support for access to the notary profession in Ukraine

Abstract

The aim of the work is to comprehensively study the administrative and legal support for access to the notary profession in Ukraine, to clarify the content of the relevant legal and organizational mechanisms, and to identify the problems and prospects for improving state regulation in this area. The methodological basis of the study consists of general scientific and special legal methods of cognition, in particular the formal legal, systemic and structural, logical-semantic, comparative legal, and functional methods.

Results. The article establishes that access to the notary profession in Ukraine is a complex administrative and legal mechanism covering a system of legally established requirements for a person, internship procedures, passing a qualification examination, obtaining a certificate granting the right to engage in notarial activity, and organizational admission to professional activity. It is substantiated that the effectiveness of such a mechanism directly affects the quality of notarial services, the level of legal certainty in civil circulation, and public trust in the notariat as a publicly significant legal institution. It is determined that an important role in ensuring access to the notary profession is played by state authorities, primarily the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, which perform managerial, coordinating, and control functions in this area. At the same time, a number of problems have been identified related to the need to increase the transparency of administrative procedures, ensure the objectivity of professional selection, improve the criteria for assessing candidates’ professional readiness, and strengthen guarantees of equal access to the profession.