Annotation

The experience of European countries on the development of territorial communities and implementation of the decentralization reform in the land management system, determining the directions of its implementation and development on the example of land use is summarized. An analysis of the world experience of agricultural land use in the EU in accordance with a common policy of landscape improvement, the process of designing environmental measures, optimizing land use in a particular area, improving production technologies, changing its functional purpose is conducted. According to the results of the research, the structural and logical scheme of spatial planning of land use in the EU countries is described. Some of the main positive results of decentralization include intensified business cooperation with local authorities, development of small and medium business, constructive solution of communities' own problems, formation of sufficient income at local levels for community development and self-financing of projects, efficient use of resource potential, diversification of local economy, effective employment of the population and growth of their income level, which is the basis of the program of rural development "LEADER". The organizational structure of management countries of rural development and agricultural land use planning in the EU is revealed. In the EU countries, rural development is defined as a well-founded process of successive economic, social, political, cultural and environmental changes aimed at improving the quality of life, which should meet the needs of the whole population and not pose a threat to future generations.