General principles of activity

Tasks and functions:

According to the Law of Ukraine dated 16.12.2020 No. 1089-IX "On the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine":

The Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine is the central government agency of the executive power which is entrusted with the task of countering offences affecting the functioning of the national economies.

In accordance with its assigned tasks, the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine performs law enforcement, analytical, economic, informational, and other functions."

The main tasks of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine are:

1) detection of risk areas in the economic sphere by analyzing structured and unstructured data;

2) assessment of risks and threats to the economic security of the state, and development of ways to minimize and eliminate them;

3) submission of proposals for amendments to regulatory legal acts regarding the elimination of prerequisites for establishing schemes of illegal activity in the economic sphere;

4) ensuring the economic security of the state by preventing, detecting, terminating, and investigating criminal offenses that infringe upon the functioning of the state's economy;

5) collection and analysis of information on offenses affecting the economic security of the state, and identification of methods for preventing their occurrence in the future;

6) planning of measures in the sphere of counteracting criminal offenses classified by law under its investigative jurisdiction;

7) detection and investigation of offenses related to the receipt and use of international technical assistance;

8) preparation of analytical conclusions and recommendations for state bodies with the aim of increasing the effectiveness of their management decisions regarding the regulation of relations in the economic sphere.

Legal basis of activity

1. The Constitution of Ukraine
2. The Law of Ukraine "On the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine"
3. The Law of Ukraine "On Operational Search Activity
4. The Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine
5. The Criminal Code of Ukraine
6. The Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses
7. The Tax Code of Ukraine
8. The Budget Code of Ukraine
9. The Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information"
10. The Law of Ukraine "On the Bar and Advocacy"
11. The Law of Ukraine "On the Status of People's Deputy of Ukraine"
12. The Law of Ukraine "On the Procedure for Compensation of Damages Caused to a Citizen by Illegal Actions of Bodies Conducting Operational Search Activity, Pre-trial Investigation Bodies, the Prosecutor's Office, and the Court"
13. The Law of Ukraine "On Banks and Banking Activity"
14. The Law of Ukraine "On State Secrets"
15. The Law of Ukraine "On Preventing Corruption"
16. The Law of Ukraine "On Prevention and Counteraction to Legalization (Laundering) of Criminal Proceeds, Terrorism Financing, and Financing of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction"
17. The Law of Ukraine "On Citizens' Appeals"
18. The Law of Ukraine "On the National Police"
19. The Law of Ukraine "On Lustration"
20. The Law of Ukraine "On the Disciplinary Statute of the National Police of Ukraine"
21. The Law of Ukraine "On Pension Provision for Persons Discharged from Military Service, and Certain Other Persons"
22. The Law of Ukraine "On Civil Service"
23. The Law of Ukraine "On Information"
24. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (CMU) "On Approval of the Regulation on Service by Persons Holding Special Titles of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine" dated November 29, 2022, No. 1333
25. Resolution of the CMU "On the Establishment of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine" dated May 12, 2021, No. 510
26. Resolution of the CMU "Some Issues Regarding the Organization of Activities of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine" dated October 6, 2021, No. 1068
27. Resolution of the CMU "On Approval of the Basic Principles for Internal Control by Budget Fund Managers and Amendments to the CMU Resolution of September 28, 2011, No. 1001" dated December 12, 2018, No. 1062
28. Resolution of the CMU "Issues of the Public Control Council under the Economic Security Bureau" dated August 18, 2021, No. 872
29. Resolution of the CMU "On Approval of the Procedure for a Complex of Measures for Risk Assessment in the Economic Sphere" dated December 27, 2024, No. 1509
30. Order of the CMU "On Approval of the Personal Composition of the Public Control Council under the Economic Security Bureau" dated November 29, 2024, No. 1183-r
31. The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms