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Almanac of law. Issue 17 (2026), pages 465–471.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2026-17-465-471

Ternavska V. M.
Adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the provisions of European Union law: issues of constitutional and legal identity

Today, every democratic state, despite its membership in the European Union, institutionalizes European values primarily at the constitutional level, introducing a mechanism for their real implementation and protection in national legislation. The author considers that Ukraine’s constitutional and legal policy should be formed not only in the format of recognizing the principles of international legal order and commitment to European democratic values, but, above all, recognizing the priority of national interests. In the process of European integration law-making, institutional and law-implementation modernization should be carried out taking into account national traditions in law and constitutional and legal principles, which together constitute the essence of the concept of national identity in law. The issue of national identity in the field of law is becoming more relevant due to the inevitability of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine during the period of post-war reconstruction. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to determine the content of the category of «identity» in the field of law and the determination of the specifics of the development of the national legal system by this phenomenon.

Based on the analysis of existing approaches to the issue of identity in the field of law, it is proposed to use the term «constitutional and legal identity», since the term «constitutional identity» implies only the inviolability of the basic provisions of the Basic Law of the state, and the term «national identity» has, in addition to the legal one, also a cultural and other connotation. The author defines the concept of «constitutional and legal identity» as a feature (specificity) of the development of the national legal system, which involves an adequate combination of innovations of legal globalization and national traditions in law and constitutional and legal values in accordance with the Basic Law of the state. In general, despite the terminological differences, it is considered appropriate to scientifically forecast the development of the national legal system under the impact of legal globalization in the context of a reasonable combination of diachronic and synchronous continuity.

There made the conclusion that the constitutional and legal policy of the state, as a fundamental and strategically important type of legal policy of the state, should be formed in accordance with the international obligations assumed by the state, while reserving the right to constitutional and legal identity. The task of the science of constitutional law is to develop the term-concept of identity in law — national constitutional identity or constitutional-legal identity, and to form a corresponding doctrine.

Keywords: constitutional and legal policy, integration, adaptation of legislation, law-implementation, national identity, legal identity, constitutional identity.

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Дата першого надходження рукопису до видання: 10.02.2026
Дата прийнятого до друку рукопису після рецензування: 09.04.2026
Дата публікації: 30.04.2026

     

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