The purpose of this article is to study the practice of administrative and territorial reform in the European Union in the context of the reform of the administrative and territorial structure in Ukraine in order to deepen the European integration processes and approach the legal standards of the EU countries. | Practice of administrative and territorial reform in the Eu and Ukraine regulatory and management International Journal of Management IJM Volume 11 Issue 4 April 2020 pp. 487-499 Article ID IJM_11_04_047 Available online at http ijm JType IJM amp VType 11 amp IType 4 Journal Impact Factor 2020 Calculated by GISI ISSN Print 0976-6502 and ISSN Online 0976-6510 IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed PRACTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL REFORM IN THE EU AND UKRAINE REGULATORY AND MANAGEMENT Svitlana V. Onyshchuk Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine Igor I. Onyshchuk King Danylo University Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine Zinoviy O. Siryk Lviv Polytechnic National University Lviv Ukraine Vitali E. Turenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv Ukraine ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to study the practice of administrative and territorial reform in the European Union in the context of the reform of the administrative and territorial structure in Ukraine in order to deepen the European integration processes and approach the legal standards of the EU countries. During the research methods of interdisciplinary approach system analysis socio-cultural method social-activity and concrete- historical approach were applied. The article concludes that based on the European experience the author considers it important to warn domestic reformers that market principles in the public administration system have certain limits of application as a result of intensive implementation of market management principles and deconcentration of management the public service may become more disjointed and less manageable which will contribute to the distortion of its public purpose distancing citizens from state institutions. In the course of the study it was possible to identify some of the most important common causes of European reforms that affected the peculiarities of the process of reforming the
