FORMATION OF A MODERN LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES IN UKRAINE: FEATURES AND TRENDS

Abstract

The article considers peculiarities of formatting modern system of land resources management for territorial communities under the conditions of decentralization in Ukraine. The author reasons that managing land resources of territorial communities today is an important scientific and applied problem at various levels of management. It is noted that today development of Ukraine is closely linked with the reform of its administrative-territorial structure, aimed at ensuring economic, social and financial capacity of each administrative unit – primarily the territorial community.

The author emphasizes that in the context of ongoing decentralization reforms, mechanisms and processes that accompany functions and development of territorial communities are also being transformed. At the same time, certain extra powers are given to the united territorial communities, they become responsible for more effective management, including land and resource potential, which is the basis for the territory development. This is the reason to suggest development and implementation of interconnected system of legal, administrative and economic measures, at the level of local government, being united by the same goal of regulating land and property relations, to ensure stable, balanced and effective development of the territorial community.

Theoretical and methodological aspects of state land management were considered by such foreign and domestic scientists as D. Babmindra, V. Vyun, V. Gorlachuk, D. Hnatkovych, D. Dobryak, M. Laveykin, L. Novakovsky, who analyzed conceptual apparatus of the system of state land resources management and meaningful characteristics of the processes taking place in this field.

Significant contribution to the development of certain aspects of state management of land resources is made by V. Bokolag, O. Botezat, V. Druhak, M. Kovalsky, R. Kuriltsev, Y. Lytvyn, O. Mordvinov, A. Merzlyak, O. Okhriy, V. Peresolyak, O. Pronina, G. Shary, O. Chebotaryova, V. Chuvpylo, V. Tsyplukhina, A. Yurchenko and others. Contribution to the development of theoretical and applied foundations of land management was made by land economists: I. Bystryakov, V. Budziak, Y. Dekhtyarenko, J. Dorosh, O. Dorosh, V. Gorlachuk, L. Novakovsky, A. Sokhnych, A. Tretyak, M. Fedorov and others.

Despite the significant number of publications, Ukrainian science has not sufficiently studied formation of the modern system of land management of territorial communities in the context of decentralization of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to generalize scientific achievements on the issue in the scientific literature.

Thus, the process of decentralization of power in the field of land relations regulation and amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine on delegation of powers to local governments to dispose of state property and strengthen state control over land use and protection will have positive socio-economic consequences, namely: strengthening the influence of the territorial community on land and economic relations in the countryside; determination of the legal regime of lands of collective ownership, dead heritage and unclaimed land shares (share); simplification of the procedure for legal and natural persons to own and use land plots on which buildings, structures, other real estate objects are located, the ownership of which is registered to the purchaser of the land plot; strengthening state control over land use and protection.

Thus, the reform of land relations and the implementation of modern land policy to expand the powers of local governments in Ukraine is associated primarily with the practical definition of land ownership, development of land market and its infrastructure, quality control of land use and organization measures to improve and restore land resources at the level of territorial communities.