Normative and legal provision of rural development management

The purpose of the article is to provide scientific substantiation of the main stages and approaches to the normative and legal provision of rural development management. Research methodology. The following methods of scientific research have been used to solve this purpose: dialectical method of the effect of economic laws, the systematic approach to the study of economic phenomena, as well as the monographic, abstraction method, abstract and logical. Research results. The basic principles for formation of the regulatory and legal system and state policy in the field of management of rural areas have been substantiated in the article. The successive stages of the formation of the legislative base for regulation of the functioning of rural territories have been determined and its deficiencies have been substantiated in ensuring the economic and social components of their development. The directions of improvement of the regulatory and legal system have been offered, which will ensure realization of the mechanism of complex development management of rural territories in the conditions of decentralization. Elements of scientific novelty. An author's approach to the development and implementation of a regulatory and legal system for managing the development of rural areas in a context of decentralization has been formed, which will enable to coordinate the activities of state and local authorities in addressing the effective functioning of rural territories. Practical significance. Justification of the main features of the formation of the regulatory and legal provision is an important element of the mechanism for regulating the rural development, which defines the competence and authority of the subjects of management and ensures the practical implementation of state policy in this area. Refs.: 14.