What is a CPC contract?

Civil law contract (CPC contract) is a common agreement between legal entities that establishes their mutual rights and obligations. Often, the CPC contract is called a civil law contract, a subcontract or a contract for the provision of services. However, each of these contracts has its own section in the Civil Code of Ukraine. After all, each contract has its own peculiarities of conclusion and subject of regulation. Entrepreneurs face this contract when they have to entrust the performance of certain work to a third party: the one with whom the entrepreneur does not enter into an employment relationship. It is the absence of labor relations that is the main reason that creates the conditions for an entrepreneur to choose this form of cooperation.

The subject of the CPC contract, which distinguishes it from other agreements, is the result of work. That is, it is not important for the customer when, how, with what means the executor will fulfill the terms of the contract. Only the result that the customer receives and for which he will pay a fee is important. This condition distinguishes the CPC contract from, for example, an employment contract, where the parties pay attention to the labor process.