The article is devoted to the study of the legal status of specialized bodies of the European Union in the field of cybersecurity. The relevance of the study is due to the policy of European integration defined by the Constitution of Ukraine. The object of the study is the social relations that take place when ensuring cybersecurity in the member states of the European Union. The subject of the study is the regulatory acts Правовий статус спеціалізованих органів європейського союзу у сфері забезпечення кібербезпеки 415 of the European Union that regulate the activities of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. The research methodology is based on dialectics. Among the general scientific methods used in the study were: analysis; synthesis; system method; structural-functional method. The special scientific methods used in the study include: historical-legal method; comparative-legal method; method of systemic analysis of law; formal legal method; method of analysis of law enforcement practice; method of legal modeling. The term «cybersecurity» officially appeared in the EU initially as a political category: it was first used by the European Commission in the Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union - An Open, Safe and Secure Cyberspace in 2013. It is noted that a distinctive feature of the European approach is the reliance on extraterritorial sovereignty and the task of increasing the international prestige of the European Union through the implementation of a global initiative - the Action Program for Promoting Responsible Behavior of States in Cyberspace. The European Union pays special attention to cooperation at the regional level, the main goal of which is to form a system for ensuring cybersecurity in the European region based on the regulatory and institutional framework of the European Union, as well as cooperation instruments of the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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