UDC 352.075(477)
Vlasyuk, O. S. (2015). Stan i problemy reformuvannya administratyvno-terytorial'noho ustroyu Ukrayiny [State and problems of reforming of administrative and territorial division of Ukraine]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 77(3). [in Ukrainian].
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The problems of conducting the administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine and its legislative maintenance are examined. It is defined that territorial administrative units should have sufficient financial, economic, institutional and human resources potential in order to maintain high level of granting social services to population and of social and economic development of the relevant territories. Legal regulation of the issues related to administrative and territorial division is poor and controversial. The necessity of administrative and territorial reform as the basis of new territorial management model grounding on the principles of decentralization, subsidiary, balance of state interests and the interests of regions’ population and territorial communities, efficient development of state management and local self-governance, capability and independence of territorial communities in solution of local issues is stressed. The analyses of preconditions, risks and obstacles that can emerge in the course of the reform implementation will contribute to successful forming of capable territorial communities. The following are the most probable risks and obstacles: possible weakening of controllability at the bottom management level during conducting the reform; opposition of local management elites, for the reform provides considerable growth of responsibility at bottom management level and optimizing (decreasing) of the amount of rural, town, city, and at the next level – regional councils that leads to losing the job by some part of managers; possibility of disputes over the land and estate issues; lack of sufficient financial resources for stimulation of territorial communities integration stipulated by law. In order to neutralize the abovementioned risks it is necessary to create relevant institutional maintenance of reforming process. This stipulates adopting of the range of legislative acts to form the system of organizational-legal and financial-economic mechanisms directed at establishment and development of capable territorial communities. While conducting the reform, it is necessary to use the experience of other countries – Ukraine’s neighbours that have already successfully conducted the reform of territorial management systems. In this regard the Ukrainian-Polish consulting group is created in order to develop the proposals for improvement of legal management of the local development and local self-governance reforming issues in Ukraine. The group has to conduct the assessment of decisions implementation state over financial decentralization, prepare proposals over making amendments to the Budget and Tax Codes of Ukraine on financial decentralization and strengthening of local self-governance financial basis taking into account the performance of local budgets and to elaborate the mechanisms of public finances population and state control maintenance.The reform of administrative and territorial division and territorial authority organization in Ukraine is one of the fundamental reforms that encompass pretty much every sphere of society activity. That is why the broad public support is necessary for its conducting. This, in its turn, requires objective and broad presentation of the process and problems of reforming in the mass media.

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administrative-territorial reform, administrative-territorial division, decentralization, local self-governance, models of territorial governance, territorial communities