What is political termination? What are the criteria to distinguish between the political termination and the termination of employment of public officers who fill non-political positions? How lawful is the political termination without cause? Do labor law restrictions related to the termination of public office (including being on sick leave, on vacation, etc.) apply to political termination?

The enlargement of the European Union and changing economic and political environments make the use of commercial intermediary agreements to trade across national boundaries increasingly important.

Generally, the legislation of Ukraine, as a recently acceded Member of the World Trade Organization (the "WTO"), can be considered as being in consistence with WTO rules.

At the end of December 2010 two special investigation (according to WTO terminology - protective investigations) had been terminated without any action, namely: in respect of imports into Ukraine of ferroalloys and complex mineral fertilizers

In 2010 a number of foreign trade issues were making headlines in Ukraine. One of the most important was that for the first time in its history Ukraine initiated a WTO dispute settlement procedure before the WTO Dispute Settlement Body against discriminatory taxation in Armenia.

At present, personal data protection in Ukraine is governed by Article 32 of the Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 23 and 31 of the Law of Ukraine "On Information", and Articles 200 and 302 of the Civil Code of Ukraine.

In view of continuing globalization, capturing new markets and expanding presence thereon recently became a top priority for all companies. Franchising is one of the possible options of such "expansion".

The Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter – "the ECHR") in the case "Regent Company v. Ukraine" (Application No. 773/03) was rendered on 3 April 2008. Since that time it was often mentioned in various commentaries of national scholars and practitioners.

The current economic situation makes any reasonable businessperson assume measures to collect old and new debts both nationally and abroad. Legal mechanisms of debt collection are quite similar in many jurisdictions.

Within the period of financial crisis Ukrainian banks started implementation of various instruments for cleaning up their balance sheets from non-performing loans in order to solve liquidity issue and to continue lending without additional capital injections.

Competition policy is a legal tool to effect economic behaviour. Although the Ukrainian competition regulations, in particular those related to concerted practice, are based on the same principles as those in the EU competition law, their implementation on a number of occasions differs significantly from that of the other European competition regulators.

Many companies focused on the consumer as their main client often collect and process personal data of individuals for commercial purposes (statistics, client acquisition, marketing, advertising, etc.).

The parallel market, also quite often referred to as the grey market, is the name given to the market that develops in goods sold outside of their authorized channels of trade.

Corruption is known as the Achilles heel of the Ukrainian economy. Transparency International defined Ukraine as ranking in last place among "newly independent countries" in accordance with the Global Corruption Barometer 2009 annual review.

Please find below a brief overview of the Explanatory Notes issued by the Securities and Stock Market State Commission (the "SSMSC") in respect of certain provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On Joint Stock Companies" (the "JSC Law"), namely:

According to Paragraph 2 of Article 40 of the Code of Laws on Labor of Ukraine dated 10.12.1971 No. 322-VIII as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "Labor Code of Ukraine") employment agreement may be terminated by the owner or its authorized body in case of employee inadequacy for his or her position or for the work performed due to insufficient qualification or state of health which hinder the work continuation, as well as in case when performance of the employee’s duties requires access t

The authors of this article intend to disclose the peculiarities of execution proceedings and those numerous difficulties and obstacles that are faced by foreign creditors (claimants) in the process of actual debt recovery under the foreign judgments or arbitral awards in Ukraine.

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") is currently one of the most transparent and open-minded state agencies of Ukraine, available for a dialogue with business community.

The Ukrainian law provides for certain restrictions on the placement of shares issued by Ukrainian issuers outside Ukraine.

A social interaction can be defined, in a wide sense of this word, as activities of two or more parties to social relations through which they exert influence on each other.