In order to effectively counter economic offenses, the work of the legal system is necessary, which includes, first of all, regulatory legal acts, state authorities and law enforcement agencies. The purpose of the work is to define the concept and components of the legal system for countering economic offenses, as well as to clarify its regional characteristics. The following methods of scientific knowledge and empirical methods were used in the research. The article discusses various approaches to understanding the category of «legal system». It is concluded that the legal system that defines the counteraction to economic offenses consists of four main elements, such as: regulatory support systems (including the system of legislation); entities that provide practical activities for the enforcement of regulations of the regulatory support system; law enforcement as a form of government activity aimed at the implementation of regulations regulatory support systems; legal culture of the society. The analysis of the regulatory and legal framework providing counteraction to economic offenses is carried out. The complex of regulatory legal acts aimed at preventing, detecting and suppressing offenses in the economic sphere includes: codified regulatory legal acts; federal regulatory legal acts; regional regulatory legal acts. The article also examines the subjects that provide practical activities for law enforcement of the regulations of the regulatory support system that defines the fight against economic offenses, namely: law enforcement agencies; the main federal entities that provide practical activities to combat economic offenses; the main regional entities that provide practical activities to combat economic offenses.
