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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify gaps and weaknesses in the proposed system of public documents security as well as to formulate corrective actions. Project and methods: The research is based on an analysis of a draft bill on public documents together with implementing acts, the literature review and publicly available data on public documents security. Results: The analysis shows that the draft has some essential weaknesses which may cause its inconsistence with the EU law and reduce the level of public documents security. These weaknesses have been identified and appropriate corrections have been proposed. Conclusions: The implementation of the analyzed legal regulations is necessary as regards public security. However, they need significant corrections. In particular, it is essential to reduce the catalogue of the 1st category of public documents, give authorization for changes in specimens of existing public documents to the Commission on public documents, fill gaps in rules of specimens designing; increase state control over the exclusive producer of blankets of public documents of the 1st category, resign from the option which enables the government to consign manufacturing of blankets of public documents of the 1st category to a producer different that the exclusive.