The article presents the analysis of existing legal and administrative science approaches to the definition of the control mechanism, which allows to maintain the structural-functional approach and to highlight the main elements of the organizational-legal mechanism of control in the sphere of selection achievements in plant breeding. Management activities, organizational-legal mechanism, content management activities. The main elements of the content management activities include the object,

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... e subject, principles, purpose, objectives, functions, forms and methods, each of which takes its place and effect on organizational-legal mechanism of management. Despite the fact that the elements of the organizational-legal mechanism of control (including public administration in the administrative and legal science are in the field of view of scientists, however, questions related to the organizational-legal mechanism of management activities in the sphere of selection achievements in plant breeding, were not reflected in the literature. The aim of the article is to introduce the basic elements of the organizational-legal mechanism of control and their definitions in the management activities of selection achievements in plant breeding.