LEGAL REGULATION OF PROCUREMENT OF NARCOTIC DRUGS IN UKRAINE WITH INVOLVEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZED...

The purpose of the study is to analyze specific problems of legal regulation of the procurement of narcotic drugs in Ukraine with the involvement of international specialized organizations. To achieve this goal, statistics have been analyzed concerning the number of people who receive narcotic drugs for the SMT program, the number of their treatment applications, the quantity of drugs purchased for them from the state budget. It is proposed to divide the regulatory legal acts regulating the purchase of narcotic drugs, general and special, and analyze them. The understanding of legal constructions "state procurement" and "public procurement" in scientific literature, national legislation and international legal documents is analyzed. Two groups of subjects of legal relations in the field of procurement of narcotic drugs with the involvement of international specialized organizations have been distinguished out. In the course of the study, a number of problems have been identified that require urgent solutions: insufficient budget financing of drug provision for SMT programs; absence of control over the use of methadone and buprenorphine for SMT programs at the legislative level, as well as the differentiation of the terms "narcotic drugs", "psychotropic substances" and "drugs containing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors"; absence of the price of the drug in the selection criteria of international organizations, the lack of economic competition in this field, existence of prepayment for SMT drugs for more than one year, which affects the efficiency of using budgetary funds. It is proposed to make a number of changes to the relevant legal acts.