Legal instruments
HAGUE CONVENTIONS (www.hcch.net):
Convention on civil procedure of 1954
Convention abolishing the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents of 1961
Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters of 1965
Convention on the taking of evidence abroad in civil and commercial matters of 1970
Convention on international access of justice of 1980
Convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction of 1980
Convention on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition, enforcement and co-operation in respect of parental responsibility and measures for the protection of children of 1996
Convention on choice of court agreements of 2005
COUNCIL REGULATIONS (EC) and DIRECTIVES (EC)(www.eur-lex.europa.eu):
Regulation No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters
Regulation No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000
Regulation No 805/2004 of 21 April 2004 creating a European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims (European Enforcement Order; EEO Regulation)
Regulation No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings (Insolvency Regulation)
Regulation No 1348/2000 of 29 May 2000 on the Service in the Member States of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (Service Regulation)
Regulation No 1206/2001 of 28 May 2001 on Cooperation between the Courts of the Member States in the Taking of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Matters (Evidence Regulation)
Regulation No 1896/2006 of 12 December 2006 creating a European Order for payment procedure (European Order for Payment Procedure; EPO Regulation)
Regulation No 861/2007 of 11 July 2007 establishing a European Small Claims Procedure (European Small Claims Procedure; ESCP Regulation)
Regulation no 4/2009 of 18 December 2008 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and cooperation in matters relating to maintenance obligations
Council Directive 2002/8/EC of 27 January 2003 to improve access to justice in cross-border disputes by establishing minimum common rules relating to legal aid for such disputes
Council Directive 77/249/EEC of 22 March 1977 to facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services
Directive 2008/52/EC of 21 May 200 on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters
UNIDROIT DOCUMENTS:
ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure, adopted and promulgated
by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C., U.S.A. May 2004 and byUNIDROITat Rome, Italy April 2004.
OTHER TREATIES:
Convention on the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards of 1958
European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration done at Geneva, 21 April 1961
European Convention on State Immunity (Basle Convention), done at Basel, 16 May 1972
CIS Convention on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal cases dated 22 Jan. 1993
Bilateral treaties on legal assistance in civil, family and criminal cases:
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Estonia on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 15 Feb. 1995
Treaty between the Ukraine and Czech Republic on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 28 May 2001
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Georgia on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 9 Jan. 1995
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Macedonia on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 10 Apr. 2000
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Moldova on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 13 Dec. 1993
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Latvia on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 23 May 1995
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Lithuania on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 7 Jul. 1993
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Poland on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 24 May 1993
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Romania on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 30 Jan. 2001
Treaty between the Ukraine and Republic of Uzbekistan on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal cases dated 19 Feb. 1998
JUDGMENTS OF THE ECJ (www.curia.europa.eu):
ECJ, Case Rehder v. Air Baltic, C-204/08
ECJ, Case Shevill and others v. Presse Alliance SA, C 68/93
ECJ, Case Solo Kleinmotoren v. Boch, C-414/92
ECJ, Case Maersk Olie & Gas v. de Haan & de Boer, C-39/02
ECJ, Case Denilauler v. Couchet, C-125/79
ECJ, Case Hoffmann v. Krieg, 145/86
ECJ, Case Hendrikman v. Magenta, C-78/95
ECJ, Case Krombach v. Bamberski, C-7/98.
Internal legal acts of Ukraine:
The Constitution of Ukraine adopted on 29 June 1996
Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine adopted in 2004
Commercial Procedural Code of Ukraine adopted in 1991
Law of Ukraine on Private International Law adopted on 23 June 2005
Instruction on the procedure of enforcement of international treaties on the issues of legal aid in civil matters concerning serving of documents, taking of evidence, recognition and enforcement of judgments, adopted by the decree of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the State Court Administration of Ukraine from 27 June 2008
Explanation of the Supreme Commercial Court of Ukraine «On some issues of practice of resolving the matters with participation of foreign enterprises and organizations» from 31 May 2002
Information letter of the Supreme Commercial Court of Ukraine «On some questions connected with the Hague Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters» from 29 May 2009
Books (in English):
1. Law of Ukraine on Private International Law. Civil Code of Ukraine. – Parallel Texts. – Kyiv, 2009.
2. Anna Tsirat, Gennadii Tsirat. Civil Procedure in Ukraine. – Wolters Kluwer. Law & Business, 2012.