Identyfikacja wartości w działaniach administracji publicznej – poszukiwanie modus operandi

The purpose of the research in this article is to answer the question how can the actions of public administration in terms of searching for values, weighing values and their fnal application be studied? Analysis of the same legal norms and their application is not sufcient to answer the question of: how does the administration work and what motivations are involved. The subject of the control of the Supreme Audit Ofce is rarely formalised, and most often in the performance audit segment such activities are analysed with unspecifed legal consequences, which contain data subject to evaluation in the time period, with respect to the control criteria going beyond legality. Research conducted based on the administrative system (setup) is not a new subject in literature – led by scientists such as: F. Longchamps, E. Knosala, Z. Cieślak. It seems, however, that this tool still has no established place in scientifc methodology and may appear as an artifcial, useless construction. Meanwhile, it is impossible to reliably talk about the values being weighed by public administration without the support of analyses on the set of behaviours in the time interval in terms of observed axiological preferences. This article is an attempt to fnd a method of working on values research and includes an example of an analysis based on the concept of an administrative system aimed at tracing the use of norms and functions that cover their values  (identifcation of value) within the scope of application by the State Sanitary Inspection bodies.