Analysis of Regulatory and Legal Support for the Lease of Freight Cars

At the current stage of the implementation of deep socio-economic transformations aimed at the integration of Ukraine into the European Community, the lease of state and communal property plays an important role, first of all, in ensuring the development of the country's entrepreneurship. In addition, the rental of property is an important source of revenue for Ukrzaliznytsia and contributes to the maintenance of said property in proper condition. However, recently, due to unfavorable economic conditions, renting a car park for entrepreneurs is unattractive and not competitive compared to renting real estate in the private sector. One of the objective factors that have a negative impact on competitiveness and, as a result, on the reduction of rental volumes, is the complicated procedure for transferring wagons for rent, in particular, the long term of its implementation, etc. The solution of the mentioned problem requires appropriate adaptation of the legislative and regulatory framework, which regulates the issue of rent primarily by the Law of Ukraine «On Leasing of State and Communal Property», to modern market requirements. In the regulatory and legal acts of Ukrzaliznytsia, in fact, the relationship of leasing wagons is still regulated by the law adopted back in 1992 (the Law of Ukraine «On Leasing the Property of State Enterprises and Organizations. Currently», there is a need to create a fundamentally new legal framework for Ukrzaliznytsia, which will be based on the following principles: experience, competitiveness, responsibility, openness, responsiveness and integration into the web environment.The article analyzes the normative and legal support for the transfer of Ukrzaliznytsia's car park for rent. Considered the issue of the need for urgent development of local normative legal acts for the transfer of Ukrzaliznytsia's own wagons for lease in the context of changes in the current legislation of Ukraine. An analysis of the change in income from the sale of services for the use of Ukrzaliznytsia's own wagons for the period 2022-2023 was carried out and the beginning of 2024 through the electronic auction system PROZORRO. SALES.