The article reveals the mechanisms of entrepreneurial activity encouragement. Much attention is given to legal incentives as a kind of legal norms and an integral part of law. Legal incentives and their effect on business entities are considered through the prism of modern legal understanding. As the object of the study, the authors chose the formation of legal incentives' theory considering the achievements of both Russian and foreign legal framework, philosophy, economics, psychology, biology. The article also includes the analysis of legal incentives' discussion issues. Particularly, authors considered not only positive but also negative consequences of legal incentives and the possibility of legal incentives' applicability for the environmental legal framework development. As a result, the authors concluded that the theory of legal incentives should be considered by authorities when developing concepts and programs to support entrepreneurial activities. Legal incentives are the vital tool of public administration that allows combining public and private interests in the process of legal regulation of entrepreneurial activity.

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Purpose: The purpose of the article is to examine the problem of legal regulation of assessing the civil servants professionalism, taking into account the economic development of Russia. Design / Methodology / Approach: The empirical basis of the study is international legal acts, regulatory legal acts of the current administrative legislation, including federal laws and acts of the Government of the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the research is mainly made up of general scientific methods, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction. Findings: The authors analyzed the norms of international and national law on civil service issues, revealed the influence of the existing economic relations on the efficiency of civil servants. The authors came to the conclusion that it is necessary to improve the methodology for determining the effectiveness of the work of civil servants, taking into account the positive foreign experience of public administration. Practical Implications: As a result of the analysis of foreign and reporting experience, the authors have developed recommendations for improving the mechanism for assessing the professionalism of a civil servant and proposed changes to the current legislation. Originality / Value: There is a need to reform modern approaches to solving issues, taking into account the trend of digitalization of the sphere of public administration and the impact of emergencies, including epidemics and others on this process, as well as the introduction of telecommuting for civil servants.