The article is devoted to civil procedure evolution in Ukraine. A few large-scale legislative reforms took place during the period of our independence, from 1991 to 2017. The first Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine was adopted in 2004 in the light of a conceptual changes in common approaches to the implementation of justice and the formation of an independent judiciary. Today, Ukraine is on its way into the European Union, so a comprehensive reform of the judicial system and procedural legislation has been implemented, and the main ideas are to ensure the further development and to improve of the implementation of justice, to implement of world standards and common european standards for the protection of the rights. In particular, we are talking about the principle of proportionality, according to which the time and fees spent on the court procedure should correspond to those claims with which a person applicate to a court. The introduction of a general and simplified procedure for the civil matters should be welcomed as an important step towards the effectiveness of civil proceedings. The

article compares the action procedure of the current Ukrainian Civil Procedure Code and the main provisions of the Draftlaw on amendments to the Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine and other legislative acts, March 23, 2017, No. 6232. As a result the main directions for its improvement were made and the process of reforming Ukrainian civil procedural law was determined.