The article is devoted to the research of modern tendencies in the development of the economic process of Ukraine, since without their analysis it is impossible to provide an adequate normative regulation of procedural mechanisms that should ensure effective, fair, impartial and timely protection of the rights and freedoms of the participants in economic legal relations by the court. The concept of economic process, stages of economic process, economic-procedural form is determined, its features are highlighted. Particular attention is paid to the following trends in the development of the economic process, such as: a) the impact of the processes of globalization, the provisions of international law and the concept of protecting human rights on the system of domestic justice in general, and on the economic process in particular (within this general tendency, as an individual tendency (harmonization, unification) of rules and procedures at the level of the EU countries, approximation of the economic procedural legislation of Ukraine with EU procedural law); b) the differentiation and specialization of procedural regulation (including the attraction for specialization within the judicial system, the differentiation of court procedures, the attraction for their simplification, the search for optimal procedural forms of resolving commercial disputes).