How to terminate the non-governmental organization?

1. Methods of termination of a civic organisation:

• Self-dissolution or reorganisation - by the decision of the supreme governing body of the civic organisation.
• Forced dissolution (prohibition of activities) - by a court decision.

2. Procedure for termination of activities of a civic organisation

1) For an NGO with the status of a legal entity:

• Documents are submitted to the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine:
• Original or notarised copy of the decision of the participants or the relevant governing body on termination.
• Original or notarised copy of the document on approval of the personal composition of the liquidation commission or liquidator (with their registration data).

2) For a non-governmental organisation without the status of a legal entity:

• Original or notarised copy of the decision of the authorised governing body on self-dissolution.

3. The result of submission of documents:

• Making a corresponding entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organisations.
• Issuance of a decision on state registration of the termination of a public association.

Important: During the period of martial law, NGOs registered in the temporarily occupied or frontline territories (AR of Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions) may submit documents regardless of the location of the organisation.