At a meeting on Wednesday, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the draft Economic Procedure Code of Ukraine. \nAs Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych told journalists, this draft law delineates the powers of general and economic courts in considering cases and clearly reflects the role and powers of the economic court under the conditions of market transformations in our country. \nAccording to him, the Code expands the jurisdiction of economic courts, which is determined not only taking into account the subjective composition of legal relations but also the content of disputed legal relations, a LIGABiznesInform correspondent reports. \nIn particular, the competence of economic courts includes cases in which one of the parties is a citizen who is not an entrepreneur and which arise from disputes between a joint-stock company and participants of other business associations connected with the activities of business associations, except labor disputes, as well as cases on the protection of business reputation in the sphere of economic activity. \nThe competence of economic courts also includes cases on challenging normative legal acts relating to the rights and legitimate interests of persons in the sphere of economic activity. \n