The Scientific and Legal Basis Formation Standardization as a Means of Business Regulation

The article analyzes the influence of scientific experience and a high level of standardization in the Soviet theory on the theory and methodology of the national standardization in the transition to a preferred application of international standards for the effective regulation of economic activity in Ukraine. The author proposes a vision of changing the scientific thought about standardization and its contents in the technical, economic, and legal branches. A technical research and development were the fundamental principles, at first they were about purely unification and classification properties standardization, but later took the intersection of research on economic and legal issues. Economists usually talked about standardization as a means of regulating the economy as a unifying factor in the management processes, but in the context of adapting the Ukrainian market to global markets it is also referred to the use of standardization as a means of regulating economic activity (its individual types) and improving the legal framework of business through standardization to improve conformity of entities to the worldwide requirements. The legal sector has traditionally been presented by scientific work aimed at regulation of the management processes of standardization and related activities. Often attorneys focus on the legal basis of management features, such as application of standardization activities in certain sectors of economic or administrative areas, as well as ask questions of features and procedures for the use of different types of accountability in standardization.Ukraine today is a member of the WTO and is on track to join the EU, and therefore it should focus on changing the fundamental principles of the functioning of standardization: application of the standards of international organizations instead of the old GOST system; a wide application of the principle of voluntariness in the technical field, but strict application of mandatory security; a unifying conceptual-semantic system of national law. transformation nature, content, and value of regulatory and technical documents on standardization and of the of areas, are addressed. It is revealed study regional, and carried is suggested and grounded is a need to change the angle of view on understanding of standardization from a purely state regulator to expanding its ability to regulate social relations at the level of self-regulation. This position allows for the widest possible use of standardization and its documents by interested parties, in particular in the conduct of economic activity.