Law No. 848-VIII “On Scientific and Scientific-Technical Activities.”

This Law defines the legal, organizational and financial basis for functioning and development in the field of scientific and scientific-technical activities, creates conditions for the implementation of scientific and scientific-technical activities, meeting the needs of society and the state in technological development through the interaction of education, science, business and government. The level of science and technology development is a determining factor of the society progress, improving the well-being of citizens, their spiritual and intellectual growth. This stipulates the need for priority state support of scientific development as a source of economic growth and an integral component of national culture and education, creating conditions for the realization of the intellectual potential of citizens in the field of scientific and scientific-technical activities, ensuring the use of advances of domestic and world science and technology to meet social, economic, cultural and other needs. The purpose of this Law is to regulate relations related to the implementation of scientific and scientific-technical activities, and to create conditions for improving the effectiveness of scientific research and using its results to ensure the development of all areas of public life. The main objectives of this Law are to define: (a) the legal status of subjects of scientific and scientific-technical activities, material and moral incentives to ensure the prestige and priority of the relevant field of activity; (b) economic, social and legal guarantees of scientific-technical activity, freedom of scientific creativity; (c) the main goals, directions and principles of state policy in the field of scientific-technical activities, international scientific-technical cooperation; and (d) the powers of state authorities to implement state regulation and management in the field of scientific and scientific-technical activities. Land use and exercise of the land plot owner's rights (for private scientific institutions), including acquisition of the corresponding rights to the land, are carried out by scientific institutions according to the land legislation. The following objects can be included to the list of scientific objects that constitute national heritage: nature and biosphere reserves, national nature parks, reserves, natural monuments, botanical gardens, arboretums, other natural areas and objects, artificially created objects of the nature reserve fund that need support not provided for by the Law of Ukraine “Law No. 2456-XII on natural reserves”, or their separate parts, in particular botanical, zoological, microbiological and other collections.