8 July 2011 the President of Ukraine signed the new Law of Ukraine "On court fee", which comes into force from 1 November 2011.

This Law determines the legal basis of the court fee collection, payers, facilities, and the rates of court fees, the order of payment, exemption from payment, and the return of court fees.

The above Law defines the court fee as a fee that is charged on the entire territory of Ukraine for filing claimed, complaints to the court and the issuance of court documents, and included in court costs.

The legislative act also provides that the court fee is paid in the relevant part of the minimum monthly salary in the amount established by Law as of 1 January of the calendar year in which an action is performed, which entails the payment of court fees (filing savlani, complaints, etc.). As a percentage of the value of the claim or in a fixed size.

The court fee is not charged for the provision of:

applications for review by the Supreme Court of Ukraine judgments in case of establishment Mezhdunarodnoye authority, jurisdiction which recognized by Ukraine, of a violation by Ukraine of its international obligations in the resolution of the case by the court;
the announcement of the cancellation of the court order;
request for change or establishment of method, order and term of execution of the judgment;
applications for return of execution of the judgment;
the application on issuance of additional judicial decision;
application for dissolution of marriage with the person recognized in the prescribed manner to be missing or incapacitated, or the person convicted to deprivation of liberty for a term not less than three years;
the application for establishing the fact of injury, if it need for a pension or receiving aid on obligatory state social insurance;
the application for establishing the fact of death of a person who has gone missing in circumstances which threatened him with death or give reason to believe him dead from a specific accident due to emergency situations of technogenic and natural character;
the statement about the limitation of civil capacity of natural persons, the recognition of the individual incapacitated and renewal of civil capacity of physical person;
the Declaration on the granting minor person of full civil capacity;
statements about the provision of psychiatric care in a forced way;
application for compulsory admission to a TB institution;
claim for compensation of harm caused to a person by unlawful decisions, actions or inaction of a public authority, authority of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or local self-government body, public official or public officer and unlawful decisions, actions or inactivity of bodies of inquiry, pretrial investigation, the Prosecutor or the court;
statements about the protection of the rights of minors or minors in the case that the representation of their interests in court in accordance with law or an international Treaty, agreement as binding by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, carried out by Ministry of justice of Ukraine and/or the guardianship and guardianship or services for children.

It should be noted that significantly increased the amounts collected for the appeal to the commercial court.

So, earlier, for an appeal to the Commercial court with a claim of property character the costs of information and technical support of the trial was $ 236 USD. and tax is not less than 102 USD. After the entry into force of the new Law for appeal to the Commercial court with a claim of property character fee will be charged in the amount of not less than 1.5 times the minimum wage, which is 1411,5 USD.

Similar situation when filing claims of non-property character, previously: state tax 85 UAH UAH 236 (information and technical support of the trial) = 326 USD. According to the new law "On court fee" this amount will be 941 USD.

For the issuance of documents with a fixed amount, for example: for re-issuance of copies of court decisions – 1 UAH. for each sheet of the copy; for delivery of the duplicate of the court order or writ of execution – 3 UAH.; for printing technical record of the court session – 5 UAH. for every page of text on A4 paper; for issuing electronic copies of the technical record of the court session – 15 UAH.

Based on the content of final and transitional provisions of the law of Ukraine "On court fee" it is evident that the provisions on information and technical support of the trial will be excluded.

For vulnerable people such as pensioners, disabled, etc., provides benefits and small bets for the payment of court fees.

Funds received from payment of court fee promised to send to the improvement of material – technical base of courts.