ECOLOGICAL COMPONENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES EXPORT POLICY UNDER CONDITIONS OF EU-UKRAINE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT

The necessity of increasing the environmental requirements to agri-food products trade with European countries consequently to the critical environmental state is substantiated. It is underlined that the ecological component is a prerequisite for export in accordance with current world and European standards of safety and quality of products. The content of the DCFTA on the common trade policy and strategic issues of fair and open trade, which is consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals, is disclosed. The main elements of trade agreements content, which are related to ecological issues and should be observed by trade partners (like environmental legislation, natural resources trade (timber and fisheries), illegal fauna and flora trade, combating climate change, corporate social responsibility etc.) are determined. It is noted, that, existing in a globalization environment, Ukraine should not ignore the role of agricultural holdings in export of products, since they provide most of the foreign currency into the country. At the same time, it is indicated the predominance of highly specialized production and agricultural resource trade in agroholdings activity. Consequently, ecological measures of agricultural enterprises’ activity (including leading agroholdings) as the main subjects of foreign economic activity were analyzed. Both progressive gains in export of agri-food products relating to ecological requirements (based on the example of key players of the world agricultural market) and negative (caused by non-compliance with conditions of DCFTA) were defined. The perspectives on further ecologization of agribusiness, (such as prioritized by the EU Common Agricultural Policy evolution), were generalized. The purpose of the research paper is justification of the main advantages and practical measures in agricultural enterprises (agroholdings) environmental policy and risks identification for agriculture from non-compliance and violation of environmental management principles under the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement requirements implementation conditions. The objectives of the study are: identification of both positive and negative features of agriculture economic activities export oriented at EU agribusiness market agribusiness enterprises. The following scientific methods were applied in the research process of: monographic, analytical, statistical, etc.