Legislation on e-governance: peculiarities of formation in the context of moving toward sustainable development (2015-2016)

The article examines the peculiarities of formation of e-government legislation in the context of the movement towards sustainable development in 2015-2016. The beginning of the sub-stage selected for the study is proposed to be linked to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Strategy “Ukraine – 2020”, the Roadmap of which recognizes the e-Government Program as one of the top priorities. It is noted that in 2016, the formation of e-government legislation began with the adoption of the Cybersecurity Strategy of Ukraine, which recognized that the introduction of e-government, ensuring the security and sustainable functioning of e-communications and state electronic information resources should be part of the state policy in the field of information space development and the formation of an information society in Ukraine. The blocks and directions of legal regulation of e-government relations at the level of the Parliament and the Government of the country have been formed. It is substantiated that the Strategy for Public Administration Reform of 2016 is a key legal act in the development of e-government legislation this year, since it defines the principles of its development; the main principle for strengthening relations between Ukraine and the EU; the result of the reform; criteria for assessing the success of the tasks of e-government implementation. The authors identify certain components of e-government relations that were actively developing in 2015 and 2016: 1) tax; informatization; economic; financial; 2) judicial information; public information; executive information and communication; state information; information and telecommunication. The article presents the main directions of development of European e-government legislation during the transition from the second European e-Government Action Plan for 2011-2015 to the third one. Among the legislative acts and political initiatives are highlighted: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/1148 of 06.07.2016 on measures for a high common level of security of network and information systems in the Union; Launch and Strategy of the Digital Single Market; Action Plan for the Development of e-Governance for 2016-2020.