Prawne formy działania administracji jako instrumenty zarządzania gospodarką państwową

The paper consists of thjee parts. Part one includes considerations on the concept, classification and essence of certain forms of: legal adm inistrative activity. Part two is devoted to definition of the concept of „instrument of national economy control", and fixing the characteristltos of such an instrument. Part three, the essential in the paper, includes the description and critical analysis of legal forms of administrative activity, applied as instruments of economy control. In the last part of the paper, the inadequate efficiency of legal instruments applied by the adm inistration in economy control is atressed. Therefore, it is postulated to increase that efficiency by devising some more suitable instrum ents of control, ensuring the right position and importance of existing legal institutions, and a general change of proportion in their application. It has been pointed out that the peculiar character of economic relations and control functions affects formation of new and transformation of traditional ways of national administration. It should encourage scholars to reclassify the legal forms of adm inistrative activities applied in economy control, enabling a fuller theoretical analysis of phenomena in the field.