ENSURING INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE FUNCTIONING OF AGGLOMERATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of identifying approaches to the formation of institutional support for the development of agglomerations in the conditions of decentralization reform. It is determined that the European practice of gradually building and implementing a coordinated policy of administrative-territorial formations located within the agglomeration ensures the receipt of an agglomeration effect as an increase in the total potential of these formations. It is established that in Ukraine the regulation of the legitimation and functioning of agglomerations, the formation of a system of their development and monitoring as real objects of regional development is a permanent problem of the state regional policy. The institutional features and problematic aspects of the legitimation of the Lviv agglomeration are highlighted, as well as the real state of the legitimation of the agglomeration space by territorial communities in the context of the decentralization reform. It is proven that the platform for the modern institutionalization and functioning of agglomerations in Ukraine should be the alignment of legislative acts on the implementation of common interests of territorial communities with the participation of district and regional councils with the constitutional norms. An approximate list of common interests of territorial communities is determined, which should be legislatively singled out as the subject of implementation by district and regional councils, in particular within the agglomerations. Diversified options for legitimation of the status of agglomerations, their institutionalization at the legislative level within the framework of a one-time correction of the administrative-territorial structure are proposed.