THE LAW ON FOOD SECURITY OF UKRAINE AS A LEGAL BASIS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE FIELD OF ENSURING FOOD SECURITY

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to justify the need to adopt a specialized law “On Food Security of Ukraine” and define its concept. Methodology. The research methodology consists of: comparative, system-structural, formallogical methods. Their use made it possible to: analyze and determine the current state of regulatory regulation of public administration in the field of ensuring food safety in Ukraine, to investigate the regulation of the specified relations in individual EU member countries (Germany, Austria, Spain), to form a holistic view of the concept of the future law on food safety of Ukraine. Results. The first section of the article defines the current state of regulatory regulation of public relations regarding public administration in the field of food security of Ukraine. It has been established that such normative regulation is not effective, because there is no basic law of Ukraine, which could be the basis for the implementation of the corresponding function of public administration. The second part of the article is devoted to the research of regulatory regulation of public relations in relation to public administration in the field of ensuring food security in certain member states of the European Union, and in particular in: Germany, Austria and Spain. It has been clarified that the central goal of ensuring food safety in these countries and in the European Union as a whole is to ensure the safety of food products for consumers. In addition, it was found that at the level of national legislation in various EU countries there is a basic law or a set of laws that regulate public administration in this area. The third section of the article is devoted to the formation of the concept of the future law on food security of Ukraine. It was emphasized that this law should clearly define the competence and powers of public administration subjects in this area, establish a mechanism for guaranteeing the physical and economic availability of food products for everyone, and lay a legal basis for the interaction of public administration and civil society institutions in the field of ensuring food security of Ukraine. Conclusions. In the conclusions to the article, it is stated that the new law on food security of Ukraine must clearly define the system of permanent goals and objectives of the public administration in the field of ensuring food security of Ukraine, delimit the powers and competence of the subjects of the public administration within this functional direction of their activity, define the mechanism guaranteeing everyone physical and economic availability of food and essential goods, laying the legal basis for the interaction of public administration and civil society institutions in this area.