REFORMING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE BRANCHES OF ECONOMICS ACCORDING TO REQUIREMENTS NEEDED FOR EROPEAN INTEGRATION

Abstract

Urgency of the research is specified by the potential of infrastructure sectors to multiply the negative effects of natural monopoly in the economy, as well as by the commitment of their reforming to minimize those effects that is coming out from the EU Association Agreement. Target setting. Determination of the European vector of economic development brings up to date the need for delineation of the actually ways of infrastructure sectors reforming. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Among the researches of this problem are R. Pittman, J. Tirole, I. Borovyk, A. Ignatiuk, H. Fyliuk. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. There is a lack of researches of the tools of competition penetration into the infrastructure sectors under the modern institutional challenges of European integration. The research objective. This article determines the existing approaches to infrastructure sectors reforming in the context of the 3d Energy package, as well as draws the optimal way of such a reform. The statement of basic materials. The article brings the comparative analysis of the variety of models of infrastructure sectors’ reforming, which are in the use in the EU. It also assesses their adequacy to the Ukrainian environment and to the institutional requirements of the obligations incurred by Ukraine. It determines the current state and the perspectives of the Ukrainian infrastructure sectors development. Conclusions. The article defines that the most effective model of infrastructure sectors’ development is the full ownership unbundling. On the interim stage of the reform, the models of an independent operator (ISO and ITO models) may be used to gear the Ukrainian regulatory system to the requirements of the model of full ownership unbundling.