Research object: economic relations of dairy industry enterprises in the conditions of deepening of eurointegration. Research purpose: ground theoretical and methodical principles and mechanism of providing of competitiveness of dairy industry enterprises in the conditions of eurointegration. Research methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, method of groupings, method of main component, multidimensional statistical analysis, Delta envelopment analyses, method of actual comparable advantages of RCA, method of approach of the systems. Theoretical and practical results: grounded strategic directions and programmatic having a special purpose measures on strengthening of competitiveness of domestic dairy enterprises in the conditions of eurointegration. Novelty: conceptual principles of forming the mechanism of competitiveness providing of dairy industry enterprises is first grounded, in particular necessity of having a special purpose orientation on strengthening of their competitive edges on micro-, mezzo- and macro-levels and clusterisation of technological process of production of raw milk, its processing, with the purpose of minimization of transaction charges providing of competitiveness in the conditions of open economy is grounded; the methodical approaches to the estimation of efficiency of participation of dairy enterprise in an integration association are improved by the additions of calculation of efficiency coefficient; facilities of strengthening the competitiveness of enterprises of dairy industry are improved, in particular the expedience of use of multilevel system of integration connections of subjects of milk products market on local, regional, national and international levels is grounded; the theoretical approaches to the ground of essence of category of competitiveness of dairy enterprise, foremost in the context of its role in providing of food safety of the socio-economic system, and also ability to provide economic effective activity, increasing its own part at the market, satisfying the requirements of users in high-quality and safe food products with the observance of the European sanitary and veterinary standards, got subsequent development; the methodical approaches to the evaluation of level of competitiveness of enterprise got subsequent development, in particular, it was proposed the sequence of estimation; the ground of essence of competition environment of dairy enterprises activity got subsequent development, in particular due to addition of typologisation of factors of their competitiveness: by macroeconomic factors, mezzo-level factors and by the factors of micro-level. Degree of introduction: research results found practical application in the Regional branch of the National institute for strategic researches in Lviv, Main administration of economy of Lviv regional state administration, Lviv academy of commerce. Sphere (industry) of the use: main departments of agroindustrial development of regional state administrations, professional associations of milk products producers, dairy enterprises.
