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An important component of European rural development policy is to expand the capacity of local communities to solve the current needs of the territory, which increases the efficiency of the management of their development. Accordingly, the European practice of local government suggests that the local community can deal with all the available land on its territory.

It is stated in the article that status of rural areas has not yet been determined and not legally secured in Ukraine. Besides, the area of jurisdiction of each rural communities has not been outlined; their economic base has not been formed as institutional framework of rural development.

The aim of the paper is to identify rural areas within the existing administrative-territorial system.

The author believes that the successful conduct of the administrative-territorial reform will be provided by the reform of institutions of state power, the reform of local self-government (maximum decentralization) and territorial reform, which would be a precondition for sustainable development of rural areas. As part of this reform is necessity to define the territory of jurisdiction of each rural communities. Implementing the European practice of local government, local community should have at its disposal all the available land on its territory. In this case, the community should give a maximum capacity of powers and functions, enabling it to solve the problem for most areas.

Current legislation states that all categories of land (excluding land defense, which are allowed in public ownership) can be in state, municipal and private property. That is, a priori, local community is entitled to have all types of land, and this right is not restricted by the space outside the settlement.

According to the administrative-territorial approach the components of rural area are: its local community, rural settlement (village or settlement) with all the equipped it residential, social, industrial purposes and the proper infrastructure and land and buildings outside the settlement, which under the law belong to residents or territorial communities throughout the area.

Vagueness of the concept of rural areas in national legislation, incomplete process of separation of state and municipal property, heterogeneity in the development of rural areas, can not ensure the use of all available resources in its territory in order to ensure sustainable development. Existing opportunities of rural areas are limited. The weakness of the economic and financial base of villages and towns makes the activities of local government ineffective. The provision of basic standard of living and a certain set of mandatory services to the rural population needs proper financial support, which therefore requires fundamental and qualitative changes in the existing administrative-territorial system.

Keywords:

rural area, administrative-territorial system, local community, rural village, communal lands