Law No. 755-IV “On State Registration of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations.”

This Law regulates the relations arising with respect to the state registration of legal entities, their symbols (in the cases provided for by law), public organizations that do not have the status of a legal entity, and individual entrepreneurs. United State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations is a unified state information system for gathering, accumulating, processing, protecting, recording and providing information on legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and public organizations that do not have the status of a legal entity. State registration shall rely on the following key principles: (a) mandatory state registration in the United State Register; (b) publicity of state registration in the United State Register and documents which served as a ground for such registration; (c) regulation of relations connected with state registration, and peculiarities of state registration solely by this Law; (d) state registration based on the declarative principle; (e) unity of the methodology for state registration; (f) impartiality, reliability and completeness of information in the United State Register; (g) entry of information to the United State Register solely under and in accordance with this Law; and (h) openness and accessibility of information in the United State Register. The system of authorities in the field of state registration shall consist of: (a) the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine; and (b) other state registration entities. The United State Register is created in order to provide state bodies and local governments, as well as participants in civil turnover, with reliable information on legal entities, public organizations that do not have the status of a legal entity and individual entrepreneurs from the United State Register.