Local Self-Government Day is celebrated in Ukraine on December 7. Local self-government provides citizens of Ukraine with the opportunity to independently resolve issues of local importance. The main unit of local self-government in our country is the territorial community. It is the association of citizens within the boundaries of a village or several villages, towns, and cities that exercise local self-government directly or through elected councils and their executive bodies.

On this day in 1990, the Verkhovna Rada of the then Ukrainian SSR adopted the Law on Local Self-Government. But its celebration was proposed and supported by the President of Ukraine in 2000.

In October 1985, European states approved the “Charter of Local Self-Government”, which became the basis of its classic model. For Ukraine, the document was very important, because this institute was banned in the country for 70 years. Despite many problems that appeared on the way, in 1997 the Charter was ratified in Ukraine and entered into national legislation.

The purpose of the holiday was to bring Local Government in accordance with the basic provisions of the Charter. For many government officials, this day became a real reference point for the reconstruction of the modern model of this item of legislation, which would meet the needs of a sovereign state.