PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF LEGAL REGULATION OF THE CREATION AND USE OF BPL IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Purpose: to investigate and analyse the state of legal regulation of the creation and use of unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine, outlining the current risk and safety assessment and prospects for the development of UAVs, taking into account technological, economic and social aspects. Research methods: to achieve this goal, the author used general scientific methods: systematic analysis, analysis and synthesis, formal logic, dialectics, generalisation and forecasting, as well as special legal methods: systemic-functional, comparative legal, formal legal. Results: the article argues the importance of legal regulation of the creation and use of UAVs in Ukraine, its reform due to the rapid development of technologies and the actualisation of needs caused by European integration processes and martial law in the country. t seems necessary not only to improve the existing regulations related to unmanned aerial vehicles, but also to adopt a separate special law that would unify all aspects of proper legal regulation of the use of UAVs in accordance with international and European standards, and legally establish procedures and rules for potential participants in the rapidly growing market of unmanned aerial vehicles. Improving legislation in this area will help ensure aviation safety, efficient and safe use of UAVs for both military and civilian purposes; harmonise national legislation with European and international standards; and increase legal certainty, security and competitiveness of Ukraine in the global market for unmanned technologies. Discussion: the use of UAVs should be regulated depending on the risk of each particular operation, rather than being standardised; legalisation of fully automated UAVs controlled by artificial intelligence; procedural aspects of using UAVs in law enforcement; deregulation of the use of airspace to reduce the risk of collision between UAVs and other aircraft and between them.