Expertise, i.e. a system of involving experts and expert organizations, is one of the most important functions of the state control and supervising activity. The purpose of the work is to identify the international trends in using different mechanisms to involve experts and expert organizations within realizing public control and supervising functions; to compare them with the trends in the same field of activity in Russia; to describe the interconnection between the peculiarities of the regulation system adopted in this country and the mechanisms of involving experts.

An investigation was held to analyze the process of performing three functions with the presupposed participation of experts: the regulation of excess to the limited resources by the example of the radio frequency specter; safety food control; control in the field of building–expertise of the project documents. The way these functions are performed in the USA, Germany and Kazakhstan was the subject of the investigation.

Comparison of the international and domestic experience in providing public expertise service within the control and supervision functions, allows to draw a conclusion that the administrative control in Russia is very intensive and the mechanisms of involving sub-agents are more spread as compared to the other mechanisms.