Topics of Scientific Research

The primary focus of scientific research conducted by IPE LLC is the advancement of the theoretical, methodological, and applied foundations of independent professional expertise in the form of conformity assessment as a preventive mechanism for ensuring legal certainty, enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement and application, the timely identification and assessment of risks, preventing legal uncertainty, and providing scientific and expert support for substantiated decision-making by participants in legal relations.

The research activities of IPE LLC are organised and coordinated by the Director of Research, while overall management and oversight of their implementation are exercised by the Director of IPE LLC. To ensure the collegial consideration of strategic issues of scientific development, the identification of priority research areas, and the enhancement of research effectiveness, IPE LLC has established an Academic Council. The Council considers key matters relating to the organisation, coordination, and development of the company's research, expert, and scientific-methodological activities.

The research activities of IPE LLC are conducted in close connection with the practice of independent professional expertise in the form of conformity assessment, ensuring the integration of scientific knowledge, methodological approaches, and practical expert experience.

According to the Register of Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies maintained by the National Accreditation Agency of Ukraine (NAAU), IPE LLC is the first and only accredited inspection body (conformity assessment body) in the following fields: Scientific and Juridical Expertise, Scientific and Economic Expertise, and Complex Scientific Expertise.

As a research institution, IPE LLC has an international Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifier — https://ror.org/01kfkbn61 — which ensures its unique identification within the international scientific information environment, facilitates the proper attribution of research outputs, and enhances their discoverability and accessibility.

A significant place within the research agenda is occupied by issues concerning the theoretical substantiation, methodological support, and practical development of the activities of inspection bodies conducting independent professional expertise in the form of conformity assessment. Priority is given to developing scientifically substantiated methods of expert research, establishing objective and scientifically substantiated assessment criteria, ensuring the reliability, reproducibility, and substantiation of expert research results, and advancing methodological approaches to establishing conformity with specified requirements.

The practical implementation of scientific research results is achieved through their integration into the organisational, methodological, and procedural foundations of IPE LLC's activities, particularly through the development and improvement of internal regulatory, organisational, and scientific-methodological documents. These include the Procedure for Organising and Conducting Independent Professional Expertise in the Form of Conformity Assessment, Scientific and Methodological Recommendations on Conducting Independent Professional Expertise, expert research methodologies, standardised technical specifications, technological process cards, and other documents governing the organisation, conduct, and methodological support of expert activities.

Thus, the research activities of IPE LLC establish the scientific and methodological foundation for the advancement of independent professional expertise in the form of conformity assessment, ensure the systematic improvement of expert methods and procedures, and contribute to the establishment of scientifically substantiated approaches to conformity assessment as an instrument for the preventive assurance of legal certainty and support for substantiated decision-making.

In accordance with the annual research plans of IPE LLC, approved by the Academic Council of IPE LLC (for 2025 – Minutes No. 07-1.2/25-001 dated 19 January 2025; for 2026 – Minutes No. 07-1.2/25-003 dated 29 December 2025), the following research project is being carried out:

Based on the results of its research projects, IPE LLC annually submits interim reports to the Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information (UkrINTEI). The research results provide the basis for establishing planned and reported performance indicators for IPE LLC's research activities, ensuring the systematization, documentation, and evaluation of the effectiveness of completed research, as well as contributing to the identification of priorities and prospects for further scientific development.

An important area of IPE LLC's research activities is ensuring the openness, accessibility, and dissemination of research results through the publication of its researchers' scientific works in Ukrainian peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as in scientific journals indexed in the international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science.

Such publication activities contribute to the development of scientific communication, professional discussion of research findings, and the integration of IPE LLC's scientific contributions into the national and international research community.

Scientific publications and other academic texts produced by IPE LLC's researchers are preserved, systematically organized, and made available through the IPE LLC Repository of Academic Texts, which serves as an institutional digital archive of the organization's scientific output. The Repository contributes to the preservation of scientific achievements, ensures their accessibility and proper identification, facilitates the dissemination of research results, and supports the implementation of the principles of open science and academic integrity.

To facilitate the integration of scientific information resources and enhance the accessibility and dissemination of research results, the IPE LLC Repository of Academic Texts has been integrated with the National Repository of Academic Texts (NRAT), with academic texts and related information periodically transferred to the NRAT. This cooperation contributes to the development of a unified scientific information space, the preservation and dissemination of IPE LLC's scientific output, and increased visibility and accessibility of its research results to the scientific community and other interested parties.

IPE LLC's online information activities are aimed at promoting research results, disseminating scientific knowledge, developing scientific communication, and ensuring access to information about the organization's scientific achievements. These activities contribute to the openness of research, the exchange of scientific knowledge, stronger interaction between the scientific community and practitioners, and the advancement of Ukrainian science.