ON THE COMPETENCE OF COMMODITY FORENSIC EXPERTS AS TO THE SERVICES ASSESSMENT

Abstract

This article content reflects the current problems that are connected with the determination of the special place of a forensic commodity examination while resolving the issue of defining of a particular type of service cost. The authors focused on the analysis of scientific developments regarding the interpretation of the term service and examined different approaches to its understanding. Special attention is paid to the factors of services market development, such as state policy, business trends, information technologies development, social changes and internationalization; their characteristics are given and general trends in the development of the services market are determined. Certain provisions and their interpretation are considered, taking into account the current regulatory legal acts that govern the services market functioning in Ukraine. The authors emphasize that the legislator determines the competence of the commodity forensic expert as a specialist in goods and services examination, and also emphasize that both goods and services are equally equivalent objects of commodity examination in conformity with a specific forensic specialty. In addition, the article focuses on the professional qualities that a commodity forensic expert specialist acquires while studying subjects during the period of pursuing higher education in the specialty. The attention is separately focused on those positions that allow a specialist with higher education (not lower than a specialist) in this specialty to develop forensic expert specialist skills and abilities on evaluating goods and services during the process of obtaining practical work experience. The article also emphasizes that competence boundaries of commodity forensic experts, excluding the assessment of goods, also include determining the market value of services in accordance with the applicable law and regulatory and technical documentation. The authors have identified ways to solve the problem regarding the possibility of training specialists in this specialty and the development of their competencies. It is also emphasized that in cases when a consumer is trying to restore justice on this problematic issue, he should contact the forensic institution with a request to conduct a commodity examination to define the quality and cost of the specific types of services provided.