INTERNATIONAL RATING ASSESSMENT OF REGULATORY POLICY IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article emphasizes that the experience of Western countries has shown that effective regulatory activity on the part of state bodies is impossible without the mandatory involvement of citizens and non-governmental organizations in the planning, control and adjustment of regulatory acts. Adaptation of national legislation to these norms over time should ensure a permanent improvement in the quality of decision-making in the field of economic relations between businesses, administrations and contribute to the growth of the role of the public in the development of local self-government. It has been proven that the positive dynamics in this direction do not give an idea of the real state of affairs, in comparison with other highly developed countries of the world. That is why an urgent scientific task is to study the tools of international comparisons, which, on the basis of multifactorial analysis, allow us to find out the country's place in the world, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the directions of the main efforts. The methodology of the World Bank for international comparisons "Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance", GIRG, was considered. It has been proven that the interstate GIRG index determines the effectiveness of regulatory activity in the vast majority of countries of the world using a process approach. That is, compliance with all necessary procedures for communication with the public is taken into account. However, the disadvantage of this index is that it does not evaluate the quality of these communications in each individual case. It is noted that the World Bank summarizes the results of expert surveys in five directions, each of which is evaluated from 0 to 1. The global indicator of the effectiveness of state regulatory policy is calculated as the sum of these components, where a higher value corresponds to a better result. This calculation is considered in detail on the example of Ukraine. A multivariate comparative analysis, which took into account each direction of evaluation according to the minimum distance criterion, showed that Ukraine is in the same cluster with such related countries as: the United Arab Emirates, Madagascar, Indonesia, Uganda and Albania. All of them, with the exception of the UAE, have a low level of economic development. It was found that the legal norms of the current legislation are not always properly implemented. In particular, there are no real public discussions of the government's regulatory initiatives, which are replaced by explanatory work and lack the trust of society. Experts also note that the practice of perspective planning is still not generally accepted among state authorities that are endowed with regulatory functions.