Electronic contract

The issue of the relevance of using electronic contracts for legal regulation of social relations has been analyzed in the article. The specified topic is focused on electronic document management. advantages and disadvantages of its application. The pandemic period that used to be on the territory of Ukraine, then the introduction of the martial law in Ukraine caused by the military aggression of the Russian Federation became a determining factor for spreading such a method of concluding contracts as an electronic digital signature. The risks arising from the mentioned method of contracts’ conclusion still exist, however, it is worth expecting further legal development of the researched issue in relation to the digital tendencies taking place in the world. The main purpose of a contract as a legal fact, with the entry into force of the Civil Code of Ukraine of 2003, gave way to the purpose of a contract primarily as a regulator of civil relations, which shoves its other application into the shadow. The contract is currently evaluated like other sources of law within the doctrine of civil procedural law. An important issue for the Ukrainian online trade market was the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On Electronic Commerce” by the Verkhovna Rada, which entered into force on September 30, 2015. This Law regulated a number of aspects related to contracts in the field of online trade by specifying, along with other things, the process of signing electronic contracts. As a result, an electronic contract is among the most effective means of establishing and regulating relations between the subjects. It is concluded online by using digital technologies and creates a mutual obligation between two parties, which is subject to execution in accordance with the contract’s provisions. The possibility of concluding a contract in electronic form is established in paragraph 2, Part 2 of the Art. 639 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, which provides for the rule of equating a contract concluded with the help of information and communication systems to a written form. Electronic contracts combine the formalities of a traditional contract and elements of digital document management and calculations. The author of the paper has noted that it is possible to currently conclude that an electronic contract is the most effective mean of establishing and regulating relations between civil law subjects. The obtained research results have scientific and practical significance, in particular they can be used in scientific, legal precedents both in the field of medical law and doctrinal research of electronic contracts.