Instruments for implementing environmental policy at the regional level

: The article highlights and systematizes modern and effective management instruments in the implementation of regional environmental policy. It is determined that the regional environmental policy acts as a component of the national environmental policy, which is based on environmental national and international legislation, standards and norms and contributes to the sustainable development of the region as a socio-ecological-economic system. The following groups of instruments for the implementation of environmental policy at the regional level have been identified: instruments of legal regulation (environmental legislation); environmental management instruments (environmental audit, environmental certification, environmental labeling, environmental marketing, strategic environmental assessment, environmental monitoring, environmental education) financial and economic instruments (envi-ronmental taxation, environmental payments and fees, environmental regulation, penalties for violation of environmental legislation, preferential taxes, soft loans and subsidies, investment and environmental funds); instruments of intersectoral social partnership (intersectoral communication, intersectoral interaction, instruments of public influence); e-environmental management instruments (information and communication technologies). Based on the results of the expert survey, the most effective instruments for the implementation of regional environmental policy (in order of importance and influence) were identified: environmental management in-1 struments (environmental audit and monitoring), economic instruments and intersectoral social partnership; e-environmental management instruments and such environmental management instruments as environmental marketing, certification and labeling received low scores. Stati-stically significant differences were revealed in the assessments of the effectiveness of instruments depending on the sphere of professional activity of experts: for the representatives of regional authorities in the field of environmental protection, the most influential instruments are strategic environmental assessment, environmental audit and public environmental control; for the representatives of public organizations in the field of ecology – environmental monitoring, environmental audit and public environmental control; for the representatives of business structures of Zaporizhzhia region – economic instruments, environmental marketing, environ-mentalaudit, environmental certification and product labeling; for the environmental scientists – public environmental control, environmental impact assessment, intersectoral social partnership, environmental monitoring, strategic environmental assessment. The tendencies and ways of improving the instruments for the implementation of the regional environmental policy are highlighted: development of the strategy of the national environmental policy, taking into account the regional specifics; strengthening the powers of regional environmental management bodies for control and monitoring in the field of environmental protection; introduction of environmental management system instruments in the region; strengthening the role of economic instruments, including creating conditions for the development of a „green” investment climate in the region; creation of an extensive regional environmental monitoring system; introduction of an electronic environmental management system in the region; incorporation of cross-sectoral social partnership in the field of regional environmental management with a well--defined legal and institutional framework.