Regulation of Land Relations in Ukraine: Military Law and the Post-War Period

B a c k g r o u n d . Land reform in Ukraine has been going on for over 32 years. Due to both some systemic miscalculations and insufficient resources for its provision, most of the goals of land reform still remain unrealized. The introduction of market land relations has not become a guarantee of sustainable land use. There is an urgent need for urgent correction of land reform, justification of new innovative approaches to reforming land relations in the context of global trends. M e t h o d s . The problems of scientific and methodological principles of improving the processes of land management and regulation of land relations at different levels of government are revealed in the works of leading Ukrainian scientists. However, previous research has focused on some aspects of this problem. Insufficient attention was paid to the regulation of land relations in the context of decentralization of power, ensuring deregulation in the field of land relations. No research has been conducted on the regulation of land relations under martial law. The purpose (the objective) of this article: elucidation of the peculiarities of the regulation of land relations in the conditions of martial law and substantiation of the prospects for the regulation of land relations in Ukraine on the basis of decentralization and deregulation in the post-war period. R e s u l t s . The system of factors that caused the need to introduce a simplified procedure for access to land for agricultural production during martial law was determined. Key legislative novelties regarding food security, peculiarities of land relations regulation under martial law are analyzed. The peculiarities of the introduced "land reform package" in the context of decentralization and deregulation in the field of land relations are studied. The reform initiatives introduced by the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding the Improvement of the System of Management and Deregulation in the Field of Land Relations" were analyzed, which due to its scale (affecting 4 codes and 22 laws of Ukraine) and the importance of the changes (29 reform initiatives) received the name "Land Constitution". C o n c l u s i o n s . The system of factors that necessitated the introduction of a simplified procedure for access to land for agricultural production during the martial law has been identified. The key legislative novelties concerning food security, features of regulation of land relations in the conditions of martial law are analyzed. A thorough analysis showed that in a relatively short period of time the necessary legal framework was created to complete land reform in Ukraine, identified scientifically sound prospects for streamlining land relations in Ukraine on the basis of decentralization and deregulation. Prospects for further research in this direction are associated with the need for scientific substantiation of the system of mechanisms, tools and methods of forming a multi-level system of land resource management in the context of ensuring decentralization and deregulation in the field of land relations, which should represent an integrated set of interconnected elements that retain their individual importance and have a target orientation in accordance with the concept of ustainable development of territories.