adaptation of legislation

Abstract. The article examines the current state and prospects for adapting Ukrainian legislation to European Union law. It finds that the term “adaptation of legislation” has increasingly been used to describe the process of harmonizing and aligning a candidate country’s national legislation with EU acts, standards, and rules. Since participants in the European integration process must implement and comply with EU legislation, legal adaptation has become a key stage in ensuring the incorporation of European Union standards into national legal systems.

It analyses main problems of Ukraine's accession to the EU. Issues of adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the requirements and standards of the European Community. Noted that adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU legislation consists in the approximation of national legislation with contemporary European legal system which would ensure development of political, entrepreneurial, social, cultural activity of Ukrainian citizens, economic development of the state within the EU, will contribute to a gradual increase in the standard of living of the population.