Local Self-government in the Ukrainian Authority’s Territorial Organization: Problems and Priorities of the Development

The aim of this article lies in generalization of the results of research on the localself-government functioning problems in the Ukrainian territorial authority system andspecification of priorities on development. Topicality of the present theme is stipulated bythe necessity to develop the Ukrainian statehood based on democratic principles, to beaware of the role of the local self-government and state engaged in administration of theterritories, to form such territorial authority model that would fit the modern Europeanstandards and would be directed at provision of rights, liberties and legal interests of eachindividual. It is shown, that further development of the local self-government in the territorialauthority’s organization should be grounded on reforming of the administrativeterritorialsystem of the country, regulation of powers of local executive bodies and managingactivity of local government bodies in the development of the respective territories.