Specifics of criminal procedure regulation of obtaining information that is a legally protected secret
The relevance of this study is due to the need to maintain a balance between ensuring the interests of the preliminary investigation bodies and protecting the rights of the individual from excessive outside interference in the sphere of secrets protected by law during the investigation of criminal cases. The object is social relations arising in criminal proceedings related to the receipt of information constituting a secret protected by federal law. The subject of the research is the norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, other legislative acts regulating the subject of secrets protected by federal law, the procedure for the activities of competent authorities and oﬃcials in the implementation of criminal procedural activities, the eﬀectiveness of their application in ensuring the protection of citizens' rights, involved in the ﬁeld of criminal proceedings. Goals/objectives. The aim of the study is to characterize the speciﬁc aspects of obtaining information constituting a secret protected by federal law in the implementation of criminal procedural activities and to suggest ways to improve the current criminal procedural legislation in the area under consideration by unifying it. The state of the modern criminal procedure policy of the state in regulating the issues of the procedure for obtaining, handling and protecting information constituting a secret protected by federal law in the implementation of criminal proceedings is analyzed. At the same time, the complexity of solving the problems of improving legislation in the area under consideration is linked to the speciﬁcs of the Russian criminal process, existing regulatory and organizational diﬃculties. A set of norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, which regulate the procedure for obtaining information constituting a secret protected by federal law, is considered as a sub-institution of law, which is part of the structure of the legal institution of secrets protected by law. A classiﬁcation of norms governing the procedure for obtaining information constituting a secret protected by federal law by dividing them into general and special norms on the basis of generalization and division of the object of legal relations in the area under consideration is given. The article describes the classiﬁcation of the considered norms on the basis of procedural regulation of the procedure for handling the results of investigative actions and their use.