Harahonych O. Economic legal personality of joint stock companies.

The thesis researches the historical and legal preconditions of forming economic legal personality of joint-stock companies, reveals its essence and structure.The legal mechanism for the emergence of legal personality has been analyzed and refined. The essence and legal nature of relations between a joint stock company and its shareholders (founders) have been clarified. The concept, forms and procedure for implementing the economic competence of joint stock companies have been defined. The provisions concerning the bodies of the joint-stock company which perform the functions of exercising its economic rights and fulfilling its economic obligations have been perfected. The implementation of economic legal personality by joint stock companies in the system of economic relations has been analyzed. The improvement of provisions on realization of economic legal personality of joint-stock companies in the spheres of organizational-economic, economic-production and intracompany relations has been suggested. The legal mechanism for terminating economic legal personality of joint stock companies has been analyzed and refined. The priority directions for improving the current legislation of Ukraine on joint-stock companies have been offered.