Recent approaches to the regulation of digital law aspects in EU legislation and prospects for Ukraine

The article examines the ways and methods of adapting legislation to the needs of digitalization in relation to the institutes of intellectual property law, cybersecurity and related aspects of ensuring the privacy of users and protecting their personal data, as well as certain issues of the functioning of the single digital market, proposed in recent drafts of primary acts of law of the European Union, when regulating the activities of online platforms and their interaction with end users. The relevance of the topic is due to the need to study the European experience and the values underlying the reform of these sectors in the light of the needs of modernization of the protection of digital rights and models of the functioning of the EU digital economy, which will make possible formulation of proposals for finding the best ways to legalize the same aspects in domestic law. In particular, given that the relevant processes in our state have already been launched, as evidenced by the Law «On Virtual Assets» recently adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. In this regard, the purpose of the study is to carry out a detailed analysis of the provisions of certain draft acts and other sources of EU law in the context of the possibilities of borrowing approaches in domestic digital legislation through the prism of various branches of law. To achieve this goal, the author used a wide methodological toolkit of legal science, including systematic logical and doctrinal methods, methods of analysis and synthesis, the comparative legal method, as well as the modelling method and the predictive method. According to the results of the study, the process of adaptation of Ukrainian legislation in the digital sphere to the best European practices should take place in stages and take into account the specifics and differences of real digital relations in the European socio-cultural space and within our society.

digital rights, EU law, digital markets, cybersecurity, online platform, personal data protection