DETERMINATION OF REGIONAL POLICY PRINCIPLES IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The problem of formulating the regional policy principles in Ukraine is considered in the context of current spatial development challenges, the use of territorially oriented and security approaches. The problem areas in the regulatory and legal mechanism of state regional policy have been identified, namely: the regulation of the regulatory aspects of state regional policy exclusively by law and the implementation of European instruments in the field of regional development; implementation of territorial communities’ territories into the national system of administrative and territorial organization; unification of typologies for the functional types of territories in current legal acts of the state; effective coordination and integration of various policies in the field of regional development. Proposals have been developed for a set of legislative changes in the context of forming an efficient interlinked planning system for the functional and spatial development of the state, regions, and territorial communities, which provide for: harmonizing the principles of state regional policy as a component of Ukraine's internal policy with the Guiding Principles for the Recovery Process in Ukraine (the Lugano Principles) and the Guiding Principles for Sustainable Spatial Development of the European Continent; implementation of national spatial development conception, regional spatial development conceptions, integrated development conception for territorial community’s territory as documents that determine the long-term, interdisciplinary, spatial and socio-economic priorities of the balanced development of corresponding territory and are the basis of the system of interlinked strategic planning documents and the implementation of state regional policy; implementation of an innovative smart specialization-based model of functional and spatial development of the territory; implementation of mechanism for creating spatial planning documentation via the geo-informational platform Spatial Development Planning as an integrated and site-oriented unique policy tool for functional and spatial development of the territory and transformation of the socio-economic environment taking into account the European Green Deal.