CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PRICE CONTROLS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

This article has shown evolutionary transforming the institutional basis of the state regulatory impact on the consumer market. Outlines the basics of institutional support state control over pricing and quality of consumer goods. The analysis of legislative and regulatory acts, including the Constitution and laws of Ukraine “On Protection of Consumer Rights” and “On prices and pricing” that serve as the basis for complex transmission mechanism of state influence on the consumer market. Institutional support of price controls for two decades have passed no easy way of helpless efforts to curb the wave of massive rise in price of production during the liberalization of prices to stabilizing the price dynamics of multifactor means of influence. The task of the state is not the freezing level of prices, and operative and objective tracking prices in order to establish civilized norms of pricing, creating limitations for abuse of monopoly position, followed by appropriate macroeconomic impact of the Government and the National Bank on consumer prices. One of the main components of the institutional basis of the state which effectively protects the rights of its citizens is the right to independent consumer organizations to participate in the protection of consumers. Democracy begins "from below" - through the participation of every citizen in resolving issues related to their living conditions, the most effective means of engaging citizens is public awareness, public consultation, public control, audit, monitoring. Existing consumer legislation and the law "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine", give every opportunity to include in the charter of the territorial community participation of citizens as consumers in resolving common to all residents of the community the most important priority for consumer services.