Facilitating international trade is a key issue foreconomic growth of Ukraine. For this the countryneeds to create appropriate conditions that mustderive from well-developed and effective legalframework. Given the significance of the EU MemberStates as investors and foreign trade partners such aframework could incorporate elements of EUlegislation. This would be part of a compliancestrategy where Ukraine is adapting itself to the EUin order to facilitate cross-border trade inelectronic and IT services with EU Member States. Asthe future of the world economy is electronicservices oriented, facilitating trade in this sphereand adaptation its information legislation to the EUstandards is of a primary advantage for Ukraine. This research aims at defining existing gaps in themost relevant to trade in e-services branches oflegislation, such as intellectual property rightsprotection, personal data protection, informationsecurity and fight against cyber crime. Filling i
nthese gaps is a key issue for creating appropriatelegal environment for attracting investment and newtrade partners from the EU to the Ukrainian market ofelectronic services.
Maria Morozova was born in Kyiv, Ukraine on June 24, 1984. Sheobtained her first MA degree in German and English Language,Literature and Translation at National Taras ShevchenkoUniversity of Kyiv in 2006 and the second MA degree in PublicPolicy (Media, Information and Communications Policy) at CentralEuropean University, Hungary in 2008.
