Law No.698-XII of 1991 on entrepreneurship.

This Law shall specify the general legal, economic and social provisions of executing entrepreneurial activity (entrepreneurship) by citizens and legal entities within the territory of Ukraine and establish guarantees of freedom of entrepreneurship and its state support. Activities connected with the production and sale of weapons and ammunition thereto may be fulfilled only by state enterprises and organizations. In order to arrange favourable organizational and economic conditions for the development of entrepreneurship, the state shall under the terms and procedure, envisaged by the acting legislation, provide an entrepreneur with plots of land and state property (industrial and uninhabited buildings, laid up and unfinished objects and constructions, unused equipment), required for exercising entrepreneurial activity.