Decentralization Reform in Ukraine as an Element of the European Vector of Public Law Development

Abstract

The local public authority of a modern society is functioning within the limits of a certain territory and applies to the persons not on social (family, corporate, religious, etc.), but on a territorial basis. All entities subject to the relevant spatialgeographical unit determined by the legislation of the country must obey the said authority. In addition, the implementation of legal acts taken by local public authorities is due to the territorial boundaries of their activities. The administrative-territorial system is the territorial basis of the organization of local public authorities, and at the same time it is the basis for its decentralization. Therefore, the issues of improving the administrative-territorial system are of particular importance in today's constitutional, municipal, budgetary, financial and administrative reforms. At the same time, it must be admitted that the current administrative-territorial system no longer responds to the political and socioeconomic challenges that have arisen in Ukraine. In order to form a constitutional decentralized state, the territorial basis of the organization of local public authority should be improved in the first place.