THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN CHARTER OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN MUNICIPAL LAW

Abstract

Ukrainian State has made its historic choice in favor of European integration. The basic European values, of course, include developed local self-government, recognized and guaranteed by the state authorities. The European Charter of Local Self-Government has been the main European standard to which Ukraine has committed itself to recognizing and complying in recent decades. The European Charter of Local Self-Government, adopted by the Council of Europe on 15 October 1985 as a result of many years of work by various European bodies, remains as the main international legal document which sets standards for the organization of local government on the basis of local self-government. Theoretical views on legal nature of the European Charter of Local Self-Government from the standpoint of various branches of law are summarized, legal problems of the Charter implementation are identified and ways to overcome them are outlined. Level of municipal, administrative and legal culture, can be used for further research in this area and for educational purposes by pupils, students, local government officials, civil servants, deputies of local councils. Based on the sources and scientific literature we have studied, it can be argued that the European Charter has a multifaceted legal nature and is the subject of research by scholars in international, constitutional and municipal law which identifies national models of local self-government of the states that ratified it. For Ukraine, the Charter is a vector of further transformations of the local government system in the direction of building capable local selfgovernment.