Merit — Ukrainian Law & Registers

What Merit — Ukrainian Law & Registers does

Merit provides read-only legal and public-record research through MCP. Its coverage includes Ukrainian legislation, decisions from the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, company and individual entrepreneur records, enforcement proceedings, the Unified Register of Debtors, bankruptcy announcements, consumer price index data, ECHR materials from HUDOC, and sanctions lists maintained by the EU, United States, United Nations, and United Kingdom.

The legislation tools support both document-level and provision-level research. An agent can search acts by text or metadata, identify provisions containing particular wording, inspect a document’s structure, retrieve unit text, compare editions, and ask whether a provision was legally in force on a specified date. Court tools search and retrieve Ukrainian decisions, expose citations, find related cases, and rank practice citing a particular statutory article.

How it works

MCP clients call individual tools with structured parameters. Legislation is addressed using registration numbers and URNs that identify a document, structural path, and optionally a dated edition. A typical text workflow is to search or retrieve a table of contents first, then use the returned URN with a unit-text tool. Full text is paged by character budget, and larger requests can continue with a cursor.

Date handling is central to the legal corpus. Searches can use the text published on a chosen date, while force-status queries distinguish a provision’s current or dated version. Edition history records changes, removals, moves, and the acts associated with amendments. Court decisions are returned through windows rather than as unbounded full-document responses, with citation information limited to the returned window.

Registry searches use source-specific identifiers where available. For example, company lookups accept an EDRPOU code or record, enforcement lookups use a proceeding number, and bankruptcy case history is retrieved separately from announcement search. Sanctions searches return aliases and identifying information along with freshness indicators for the underlying snapshot.

Tools and capabilities

• Search Ukrainian acts by free text, metadata, date, and commencement or repeal events.
• Find law provisions by wording and retrieve their structure, metadata, editions, and paged text.
• Check whether a legal unit was in force on a specified date, including uncertain outcomes.
• Search, retrieve, and relate Ukrainian court decisions, citations, and article-specific practice.
• Search companies, sole proprietors, debtors, enforcement proceedings, and bankruptcy announcements.
• Query EU, OFAC, UN, and UK sanctions data, plus ECHR cases against Ukraine through HUDOC.
• Retrieve a consumer price index figure for a selected period.

Limitations and notes

The service is read-only. Legislation search returns document records rather than document text; text retrieval requires following the document or unit workflow. Full-text responses may be truncated or unavailable for particular stored editions, and a missing extracted text value does not necessarily mean that the legal unit was repealed.

The public company extract does not include addresses or KVED activity codes, and company search does not search officers or founders. Individual entrepreneur records lack identifiers such as РНОКПП, address, and KVED data, so a name match alone may not distinguish people with the same name. Natural-person enforcement records may have no published identifier.

The Debtors Register represents open, unsatisfied proceedings as of its synchronization date; absence from it does not establish that no proceeding ever existed. The wider enforcement register also includes closed and refused proceedings. Bankruptcy status is inferred from the latest published announcement, while sanctions and some registry datasets expose freshness or mirror-readiness fields that should be checked before relying on currentness.