LEGAL REGULATION OF THE LAND MARKET: EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE AND UKRAINIAN REALITIES

The concept of land relations covers a wide range of economic, industrial, and legal issues. The change and development of land relations must be associated with the change and development of land ownership. The land market should be understood as a system of legal, organizational, and economic relations that are established in the process of commodity circulation of land plots based on the determination of the market value of these plots. The article highlights the state of the use of agricultural land in Ukraine. The experience of such European countries as France, Germany, Latvia, Romania, and Poland in the regulation of the agricultural land market is analyzed. The historical stages of the formation of the market, the features of state policy in this area are considered. After analyzing the experience, the general elements of an effective mechanism for regulating the land market in European countries were highlighted, and conclusion was made that it is possible to introduce the mechanism in Ukraine. Attention is focused on the need to improve legislation in the land area, organizational and informational conditions for land reform. Legislators should take into account the experience of European countries, which is analyzed in the article.