ON THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF OFFICIAL SECRETS
Background: the activities of public authorities to ensure the confidentiality of in formation constituting an official secret should be based on the rules of the Federal law. However, the absence of a normative definition of the term “official secret” and a special comprehensive law actualizes the raised topic. Objective: to research the main features of the criteria of official secrets and to propose own definition of this legal category. Method ology: formal-logical and methods of systemic and comparative law. Results: the author’s position for the consideration of key signs of official secrecy is argued. Conclusions: the essential features of official secret have been considered, the author’s definition of “official secret” has been proposed.