Pokhilenko I. Organizational and Legal Forms of the Small Enterprises.

The dissertation is an independent complete scientific work dedicated to a comprehensive research of the organizational and legal forms of the small enterprises. There have been researched the theoretical and practical aspects of defining the concept and features of small enterprises, concept and types of the organizational and legal forms of the small enterprises, legal regulation of carrying out small entrepreneurial activity in specific organizational and legal forms. There have been established peculiarities of the legal status of certain types of the organizational and legal forms of small enterprises, in particular, commercial partnership, production cooperative, farm, and individual entrepreneur. A significant attention in the dissertation is paid to development of practical guidelines on improvement of the law of Ukraine regulating the status of the organizational and legal forms of the small enterprises and their types. In particular, it is proposed to make a number of amendments to the Commercial and Civil Codes of Ukraine, Laws of Ukraine "On state support of small enterprises", "On commercial partnerships", "On farm", "On cooperation", etc.