with the provisions and principles of EU waste policy and development of suggestions for improvement of Ukrainian law. The article provide an overview of EU waste legislation, main EU investment policy and its contributions to municipalities in the area of solid municipal waste management. The ways of ecological modernization of the management of solid municipal waste were investigated. Proposals for implementation of experience of EU member states, which has proved itself in practice, were made.  Keywords: EU waste management, EU law, adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to EU standards, financial instruments

The purpose of our scholarly work is to explore actual problems of harmonization of legislation of Ukraine in the sphere of environmental policy integration with EU law and development of proposals for the improvement of Ukrainian legislation. The state of environmental policy integration in Ukraine was assessed. Government strategies, programmes, concepts and plans in Ukraine and EU were analyzed. Based on comparison analysis differences and common problems of environmental policy integration in Ukraine and EU member states were determined and recommendations on the measures to be taken to ensure better integration of environmental policies in sectoral policies in Ukraine were made. Keywords: environmental policy integration, sustainable development, strategic environmental assessment

The purpose of our article is to investigate the process of approximation of Ukrainian environmental legislation to EU law. The range of issues that Ukraine has reformed in the field of environment has been investigated. The state of compliance of Ukrainian environmental legislation with the commitments under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement was revealed. The problems of further effective application in practice of the adopted regulatory legal acts, strategies and action plans were disclosed. Particular attention was paid to water legislation and legislation in the field of waste management. The current state of the sphere of solid waste management in Ukraine was revealed. The state of adaptation of Ukrainian water legislation to the requirements of the European Union law has been investigated. Ways to improve Ukraine's environmental policy on waste and water policy based on European experience were substantiated. The methods of comparative law, statistical, analytical and logical analysis were used.  Keywords: EU Environmental policy, environmental law, EU water policy, EU waste policy, Ukrainian environmental legislation

The purpose of the research was to determine Sweden’s positive experience in the field of social protection. To achieve this goal, general and special scientific research methods were used, in particular the system functional method, the method of hermeneutics, dialectical and statistical methods. The authors assume that the Scandinavian model of social protection (Sweden, Norway, Finland) differs from other European countries by a more developed social security system. In Scandinavian countries the state model of social protection prevails. The concept of “social protection” in these countries has been transformed into the concept of “social welfare”. This model includes a compulsory social policy, a state-regulated income level and the egalitarian and general nature of social benefits and assistance. It is concluded that the fundamental principle of the Swedish social model is its universality: it covers all segments of the population. For this reason, its study is particularly relevant. The article reveals the characteristics of social protection against unemployment in Sweden. Special attention is paid to the protection of children’s rights and aspects of family policy and gender equality.

One of the key signs of so-called special structures of crimes, in article 397-400 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine of 05.04.2001 (next – CC), is an injured person. At present, a doctrinal approach to interpreting the content of signs of a victim in the warehouses of these crimes is distinguished by its inaccurate and discompliance with the literal meaning of the notions taken to indicate signs of such a victim in a special regulatory legislation. Therefore, it requires a Legal norms that would ensure the protection of such victim. The purpose of the article is to determine the main problems that arise when determining the signs of a victim in warehouses of crimes stipulated in article 397-400 of the Criminal Code and the ways of their solution. The study demonstrated the following problems: The concept of a defender and a representative who provides legal assistance, taken by the legislator, as such, indicating the special legal status of the participant in the relevant proceedings. In the warehouses of crimes stipulated in art. 397 – 400 of the Criminal Code, the integral characteristic of the special victim is: The defender, in connection with the activities associated with providing legal assistance Close relatives of the defender, in connection with the activities related to the provision of legal assistance to the defender The representative in connection with activities related to the provision of legal assistance to Close relatives of the representative in connection with the activities related to the provision of legal assistance to the representative. The term "representative, in connection with activities related to legal assistance," is not covered by a number of participants in procedural proceedings called the representative, but not formally are those that provide legal assistance. Outside the criminal law guard, which is provided by a group of special norms, which are located in section XVIII of the special part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine "Crimes against justice": Art. 397 – 400 of the Criminal Code, five types of procedural proceedings that Effectively protect and represent the interests of another participant of procedural proceedings, but formally their procedural activity has a different name: Representative of the victim, legal entity, namely: Supervisor, other person, authorized by law or constituent documents, employee of legal entity by proxy – Part 2 of article 58 of the CPC; Legal representative of the minor victim-article 59 of the Criminal Procedural Code; Witnesses ' advocate – Article 66 of the Criminal Procedural Code; Legal representative of a participant in the case-P. 1 of art. 58 Commercial Procedural Code, P. 1 of art. 58 Civil Procedural Code, Part 1 of art. 57 Code of Administrative Justice; A legitimate representative of a person brought to administrative responsibility, and a victim who is underage or persons who, because of his physical or mental disabilities, may not exercise their rights in cases of administrative offences. The case about an administrative offense-article 270 Code of Administrative Justice. In order to build an effective system of special criminal and legal protection of the participants of procedural proceedings, which actually carry out the function of representation of interests, rights and duties of other participants of procedural proceedings, appropriate amendments to article 397-400 of the Criminal Code are required.