Title: I. Chajda - Deductive systems in universal algebra Abstract: We generalize the concept of deductive system of Hilbert algebras to the general case in weakly regular varieties of algebras. We show that congruence kernels of algebras in such a variety (alias ideals) coincide with these deductive systems. Moreover, a similar construction can be used for a description of congruence classes in algebras of a regular variety which is efficient (in a polynomial time) whenever an algebra is finite and of a finite type.