PROVIDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT BY THE QUALITY AND SAFETY OF FOOD PRODUCTS OF REGIONAL AGRO-INDUSTRIAL CLUSTER

Abstract

Today, the provision of quality and safety of food products is an inalienable and significant part of the right regulation of socio-economic relations. Integration of Ukraine into the world economic community is impossible without the creation of a perfect legal framework in this area. In view of this, the urgency of the scientific elaboration of the problems of legal regulation of quality and safety of food products has been fully proved.A positive solution to the problem of increasing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises (production, harvesting, processing, realization) depends on the quality management system and food safety at both the economic and regional levels. One of the conditions for increasing the competitiveness of enterprises in the agrarian sector of the economy is the introduction of a cluster model of agro-industrial production, which strengthens the relations of its business entities through close cooperation on mutually beneficial terms and provides new impetus for the development of their activities. These benefits of the cluster organization of agro-industrial production ensure the effective development of the quality management system and food safety at the enterprises of the regional agro-industrial cluster.The purpose of the article is to generalize the theoretical approaches to ensure the development of a quality management system and food safety at the enterprises of the regional agro-industrial cluster, to analyze the current situation of normative legal provision of quality and safety of food products in the country and to suggest ways of solving this problem.One of the most effective directions of socio-economic development of the regions that allows them to secure their competitive advantages in the field of food production and high level of food security is the formation of regional agro-industrial clusters.The article is devoted to the problem of ensuring the development of the quality management system and food safety of the regional agro-industrial cluster. The analysis of modern approaches to the quality management system and safety of food products of the agro-industrial cluster was conducted.The basic theoretical questions of normative-legal maintenance of quality and safety of food products in the country and in the world are considered. The current legislative framework in this area is worked out. The problematic directions of its application were determined, proposals were made regarding the improvement of the legal basis for ensuring the quality and safety of food products in Ukraine.The methods of ensuring the development of a quality management system and safety of food products at enterprises of agro-industrial cluster are offered.The organizational model of the quality management system and food safety system at the enterprises of the regional agro-industrial cluster has been developed.