What the webinar is about

The event is organised jointly with the Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FEU), a national organisation representing the interests of more than 3,000 enterprises across Ukraine.

A FREE SERVICE FOR FEU MEMBERS

A check of the package of documents on a particular site and the preparation of a legal position for recovering payment (or for a reasoned refusal by the client).

How to obtain the service: after the webinar leave a request through the FEU or write to [email protected] marking it "FEU" and naming the webinar. The service is provided to FEU members free of charge, in the scope set out in the programme, with an NDA signed where needed.

The webinar is for you if at least one of these is your question

You are the contractor, the works are done, and the client neither signs the acts nor pays.

The client points to defects it never recorded while the works were going on, so as not to settle.

You are the client and have received acts for works that were in fact not carried out or were carried out badly.

Your works contracts say nothing about the procedure for acceptance, for a reasoned refusal and for unilateral acts.

A dispute over the volume or the quality of the works has already grown into claims or a court case.

Programme

The procedure for accepting works under Articles 853 and 882 of the Civil Code: the deadlines, the form, the consequences of the client avoiding acceptance.

The unilateral act: when it is proper proof of performance and how to draw it up correctly.

A reasoned refusal to accept: the requirements for its content, for the deadlines and for recording the defects.

Hidden and obvious defects: the distribution of the burden of proof, construction and technical expert examination.

Recovery of payment by the contractor: the evidence (works logs, photographs, correspondence, as-built documentation) and the case law of 2025-2026.

Protecting the client from volumes that exist only on paper.

Retention amounts and counterclaims about quality.

The clauses of a works contract that protect each party at the stage of acceptance.

Speaker of the webinar

Svitlana Troshchynska

Senior Counsel, attorney at law

Heads the commercial and tax practice of PROCTOR law firm. Builds the legal architecture of the commercial and foreign trade activity of a company, from structuring deals and contracts with counterparties and state customers to representing the business in regulatory, commercial and tax disputes. The combination of commercial, tax and regulatory expertise protects the deals of a client both from conflicts with partners and from the claims of the state.

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Acceptance of completed works under a works contract: the grounds for refusing payment and the ways to defend