The implementation of the provisions of the Association Agreement with the European Union (hereinafter referred to as the EU) requires Ukraine to master the legal standards of human rights and freedoms of this international formation. Today, the principle of protecting human rights and freedoms in the EU is clearly enshrined in the founding documents of this organization and serves as a criterion for verifying acts and actions that arise in the process of functioning of all its bodies and institutions. The original fundamental treaties establishing the European Communities did not contain provisions on the need to respect fundamental human rights.

In view of the above, the purpose of the study is to study the general patterns and features of the legal guarantee of fundamental rights in the EU in order to further create a normative model for the effective implementation of such standards of rights in the legislation of Ukraine.

The article examines the features of the formation of legal standards of human rights in the EU.

The norms of the EU Charter are analyzed as a fundamental legal act in the sphere of the formation of this international association’s own international standards of human rights.

It is argued that the system of human rights legal protection in EU law has gone through a long path of formation and development: from the initial denial of the need to recognize such rights to the adoption of a separate international act – the EU Charter, endowed with the legal force of the EU founding treaties. The European legislator did not limit himself to giving the norms of the EU Charter the force of the founding treaties, but also included in the Lisbon Treaty the obligation of the EU to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights.The issue of the EU’s accession to the ECHR remains open, but it is beyond doubt that the EU Charter today serves as the main source for the formation of international human rights standards of this international association. The norms of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights were not only given higher legal force in the system of sources of EU law in accordance with the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty, but the provisions of the EU Charter are applied by the Court of Justice of the EU as the main source of human rights standards in the process of verifying the legality of acts and actions of the institutions and bodies of this international formation.

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