Civil Code of Ukraine

The Civil Code of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Цивільний кодекс України, Tsyvilnyi Kodeks Ukrayiny) is a single normative legal act; Law of Ukraine, which is the main act of regulation of private law relations in Ukraine. It regulates personal non-property and property relations (civil relations), based on legal equality, free will, property independence of their participants. It was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 16 January 2003.

Prior to the adoption of the Civil Code of Ukraine, the Civil Code of the Ukrainian SSR dated 18 July 1963 was in force on the territory of Ukraine (insofar as it didn't contradict the legislation of Ukraine adopted after the proclamation of Ukraine's independence after 24 August 1991).