PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR: ADAPTATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE LEGISLATION OF UKRAINE TO THE EU LEGISLATION.

The article examines the issue of public procurement in the healthcare sector through the prism of the Association Agreement with the EU. The emphasis is on the ensuring mutual access to the markets of public procurement of the EU and Ukraine on the basis of planned and consistent approximation of Ukrainian legislation in the field of public procurement to the EU acquis in the field of public procurement. The purpose of this article is to identify the peculiarities of the reform in the field of public procurement in Ukraine, to search for drawbacks in the administrative legislation of Ukraine, which is governing public procurement in the healthcare sector in the context of Ukraine's implementation of the Association Agreement with the EU, and to justify its improvement. The subject of research is the social relations that arise in the implementation of public procurement in the field of health. The methodological basis of the conducted research is the general methods of scientific cognitivism as well as concerning those used in legal science: methods of analysis and synthesis, formal logic, comparative law, statistical methods etc The following main directions of reforming the system of public procurement were established. It has been proved that CPO functioning on the national level of government in the form of a state-owned enterprise under the control of one of the relevant ministries is non-feasibility. The advantages of the ProZorro electronic procurement system and the state of implementation of the provisions of the EU Directives on 2014/23/ EU, 2014/24/ EU, 2014/25/EU, 2014/55/EU into the administrative legislation of Ukraine have been identified. It has been found that in March, 2015 centralized procurement system for medicines and medical products was changed in Ukraine to use the funds of the State Budget of Ukraine for the purchase of medicines and medical products with the involvement of international specialized organizations. On December 21, 2018 the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council) of Ukraine put amendments into the Law of Ukraine "On Public Procurement". The attention is paid to the novelties of this Law. It has been found that the legislation of Ukraine has such shortcomings: 1) in Ukraine the issue of clear distribution of functions of the authorities authorized to carry out control in the field of public procurements remains unresolved; 2) the norms of the Law contradict each other; 3) the problems of creating effective mechanisms for the formation of the nomenclature of medicines still remain, as well as their supplies to healthcare institutions.