Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Abstract

Relations aimed at obtaining of information and limiting access to it existed and exist in all public and state-political systems. Access to information has given rise to openness (transparency) of information. At the same time, the restrictions on access to information have created a secret of information. After all, the problem of effective regulation of these relationships is relevant to many spheres of public life (and especially in the context of openness of borders) for cross-border relations. Transparency English transparent from lat. trans transparent, through + pareo to be obvious. Clarity, honesty – this is the state of awareness (the presence of complete, sufficient and reliable knowledge) about one or another activity (its objects or results), which allows any interested subject to have a complete picture about them. The urgency of establishing a regime of border transparency is due to the very formulation of the problem of openness in society and the activation of the contact function of borders. Cross-border territories in which cultural and civilization codes, qualifications and competences are crossed, possess high industrial and socio-cultural potential. Relying on this, the very free, transparent interaction should be at the basis of economic exploitation of border and cross-border territories. For today in democratic society any form of cross-border cooperation (TBC) requires the establishment of a regime of transparency. Transparency in cross-border cooperation can be regarded as a legal institution and a legal regime created on the basis of it, consisting of a set of legal relationships regarding access to various subjects of information. Its unhindered curiosity to the completeness and reliability of information (of course, with the elements of accessibility to a certain extent and under certain conditions). Between the modes of secrecy of information and transparency are located legal regimes that representing a combination of compromises of elements of both, arranged in each case in different proportions. In some cases, the decisive factor is the moment of openness with the elements of limiting access to information, in other cases, on the contrary, the content of the closed-loop information regime is decisive. Attributive characteristics of trans-border transparency are next. Transparency is provided as a technological characteristic of transparency, openness as an institutional characteristic that involves the creation of opportunities (consolidation of norms, rules and principles), publicity as a focus of transparency, the availability of any information on various social actors, and accountability as a controlling property of transparency. Transparency is a relatively new object for scientific research, which at present has not received sufficient coverage in scientific works. A certain basis for its study is laid out in studies on publicity. Transparency as a social phenomenon is such state of awareness (the availability of complete, sufficient and reliable knowledge) about one or another activity (its objects or results), which allows any interested subject to have a complete picture of them. Transparency of borders is a principle that allows them to use their contact functions. Transparency in the broad sense should provide an understanding of the philosophy of cross-border cooperation between each of the parties, thereby ensuring the maintenance of adequate relations that must be formed between the two actors (cross-border regions). Key words: transparency policy; transparency of borders; border transparent zones; cross-border cooperation.