The article, based on the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine and the new amended Code of Economic Procedure of Ukraine (hereinafter – the CEP of Ukraine), expands on the basic principles (fundamentals) of the economic court procedure as the general guidelines determining the nature of court operation in the context of proceedings in respect of economic relations. The authors note that the updated CEP of Ukraine has expanded the range of the basic principles governing the economic court procedure, particularly owing to such principles as the rule of law, dispositivity, proportionality, reasonableness of the time of case consideration by court, inadmissibility of abuse of procedural rights, indemnification of legal costs of the party winning the case; and rightly so, the principles of organization of the judiciary (administration of justice exclusively by court, independence of judges, the right to a fair and respected court, the language of the proceedings and record-keeping in courts, etc.) are not included into the economic court procedure principles either by the Constitution of Ukraine or by the CEP of Ukraine. At the same time, the authors interpret the lack of logic noted in respect of the place given to the articles describing the essence of these principles. The article enlarges upon each of the latest principles of the economic court procedure. The authors analyze and highlight the experience of the European Court of Human Rights relating to the understanding of the essence of these principles. The authors come to the conclusion that in general, the economic court procedure principles enshrined in the CEP of Ukraine comply with the basic constitutional principles of court procedure, although the rules relating thereto require further improvement by harmonizing their titles with the titles used in the Constitution of Ukraine, and also by a more detailed description of their contents. In particular, the authors make notice of the issues relating to legislative consolidation of the basic principles of the economic court procedure which have not been resolved in the updated CEP of Ukraine (particularly, the essence of the rule of law principle is not clarified, the principle of equality of each participant to the court process before the law and the court is not extended to individuals – entrepreneurs, the equality of the parties is not recognized as an independent principle, the meaning of the principle of binding judgment is narrowed etc.). The CEP of Ukraine supplements the constitutional fundamentals of the court procedure with interdisciplinary principles of the court procedure. At the same time, as a result of a certain unification of the court procedure principles, the updated CEP of Ukraine does not contain branch-specific principles which would be inherent only in the economic court procedure and mirror its specifics. Furthermore, the authors believe that it would be reasonable if the legislation provided for a clearer delimitation of the principles of organization of courts and the principles of procedural operation of courts.

List of legal documents 
 

Legislation 
1. Hospodarskyi protsesualnyi kodeks Ukrainy [Economic Procedural Code of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 6 lystopada 1991 r. № 1798-XII. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1798-12 (accessed: 15.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
2. Kodeks administratyvnoho sudochynstva Ukrainy [Code of Administrative Justice of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 6 lypnia 2005 r. № 2747-IV. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2747-15 (accessed: 15.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
3. Konstytutsiia Ukrainy [The Constitution of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 28 chervnia 1996 r. № 254k/96-VR. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/254k/96-vr (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
4. Konventsiia pro zakhyst prav liudyny i osnovopolozhnykh svobod [Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms]. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov. ua/laws/show/995_004 (accessed: 15.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
5. Pro likvidatsiiu apeliatsiinykh hospodarskykh sudiv ta utvorennia apeliatsiinykh hospodarskykh sudiv v apeliatsiinykh okruhakh [On Liquidation of Economic Courts of Arbitration and Establishment of Economic Courts of Arbitration in Appellate Districts]: Ukaz Prezydenta Ukrainy [Decree of the President of Ukraine] vid 29 hrudnia 2017 r. № 454/2017. URL: http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4542017-23366 (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
6. Pro Stratehiiu reformuvannia sudoustroiu, sudochynstva ta sumizhnykh pravovykh instytutiv na 2015-2020 roky [On the Strategy of Reforming the Judiciary, the Court Procedure and Related Legal Institutes for 2015-2020]: Ukaz Prezydenta Ukrainy [Decree of the President of Ukraine] vid 20 travnia 2015 r. № 276/2015. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/276/2015 (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
7. Pro sudoustrii i status suddiv [On the Judicial System and the Status of Judges]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 2 chervnia 2016 r. № 1402-VIII. URL: http://zakon5. rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1402-19 (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
8. Pro vnesennia zmin do Hospodarskoho protsesualnoho kodeksu Ukrainy, Tsyvilnoho protsesualnoho kodeksu Ukrainy, Kodeksu administratyvnoho sudochynstva Ukrainy ta inshykh zakonodavchykh aktiv [On Amendments to the Code of Economic Procedure of Ukraine, the Code of Civil Procedure of Ukraine, the Code of Administrative Court Proceedings of Ukraine and Other Pieces of Legislation]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 3 zhovtnia 2017 r. № 2147-VIII. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/2147-19/paran6#n6 (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
9. Tsyvilnyi protsesualnyi kodeks Ukrainy [Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 18 bereznia 2004 r. № 1618-IV. URL: http://zakon. rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1618-15 (accessed: 15.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 

Cases 
10. Rishennia Konstytutsiinoho Sudu Ukrainy u spravi za konstytutsiinym podanniam Verkhovnoho Sudu Ukrainy shchodo vidpovidnosti Konstytutsii Ukrainy (konstytutsiinosti) polozhen statti 69 Kryminalnoho kodeksu Ukrainy (sprava pro pryznachennia sudom bilsh miakoho pokarannia) [Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in the Case Following the Constitutional Application of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Concerning the Compliance with the Constitution of Ukraine (Constitutionality) of Provisions of Article 69 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Case of a More Lenient Sentence Imposed by the Court)] vid 2 lystopada 2004 r. № 15-rp/2004. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/v015p710-04 (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
11. Rishennia Yevropeiskoho sudu z prav liudyny u spravi “Olsson proty Shvetsii” [Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Case of Olsson v. Sweden] vid 24 bereznia 1988 r. accessed 17 May 2018 (in Ukrainian). 
12. Rishennia Yevropeiskoho sudu z prav liudyny u spravi “Dombo Bekher proty Niderlandiv” [Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Case of Dombo Becheer v. the Netherlands] vid 27 zhovtnia 1993 r. accessed 17 May 2018 (in Ukrainian). 
13. Rishennia Yevropeiskoho sudu z prav liudyny u spravi “Nadtochii proty Ukrainy” [Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Case of Nadtochiy v. Ukraine] vid 15 travnia 2008 r. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/974_404 (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
14. Rishennia Yevropeiskoho sudu z prav liudyny u spravi “Kuzmina proty Ukraini” [Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Case of Kuzmina v. Ukraine] 

vid 16 chervnia 2016 r. URL: http://zakon0.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/974_b33 (accessed: 
17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
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16. Pro deiaki pytannia zapobihannia zlovzhyvanniu protsesualnymy pravamy u hospodarskomu sudochynstvi [On Some Issues of Preventing the Abuse of Procedural Rights in the Economic Court Procedure]: Informatsiinyi lyst Vyshchoho hospodarskoho sudu Ukrainy [Information Letter of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine] vid 15 bereznia 2010 r. № 01-08/140. URL: http://zakon0.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/v_140600-10 (accessed: 17.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 

Bibliography 
Authored books 
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Edited books 
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Websites 
27. ‘Dopovid Venetsianskoi komisii “Pro verkhovenstvo prava” (Venice Commission: The Rule of Law)’ [‘Report on the Rule of Law Adopted by the Venice Commission’] accessed 17 May 2018 (in Ukrainian). 
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