Civil servants, implementing the functions of the state, should exercise effective administration aimed at the realization of the main freedoms and rights of citizens and legal entities, of the state and society as a whole. The quality of state governance largely depends on the professional culture of specialists, with all its ethical standards and values. In the era of global transformations in all spheres of life, ethical standards and moral values are quite controversial. The state attempts to develop a uniform approach to the development of basic moral values, which is a very important aspect in the work of state officials. The image that they create affects the perception of the existing government in terms of evaluative categories by the citizens and society as a whole. Reforms of the civil service at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are aimed to increase the role of moral tenets in the implementation of administrative activities. An important aspect, from an ethical point of view, is the avoidance of conflicts in the civil service that can result in the substitution of national goals for personal ones, and, consequently, leads to an increase in the level of corruption, which has a negative impact on the work of the state administration. This paper studies the work of the state on the formation of civil servants' professional ethics, analyzes legislative and organizational measures conflicts prevention and determines the need for further regulation of public servants work in terms of moral values and ethics.