Article 86. Opinion of the expert or expert commission

After performing the research, an expert or an expert commission shall draw up an opinion certified by the signature, respectively, of the expert or each expert who is a member of the expert commission.

The opinion shall reflect: the date and place of the expert examination; the grounds for conducting the expert examination; information about the judge who appointed the expert examination; information about the expert (surname, first name, patronymic, education, specialty, work experience, academic degree, academic title, position held) and the organization entrusted with conducting the expert examination; the fact that the expert was warned of criminal liability for knowingly giving a false opinion, and, when a case is considered in a closed court session, for disclosing information and details of the closed court session without the permission of the court; the questions put before the expert; the objects of examination and case materials submitted to the expert; information about the persons present during the expert examination; the content and results of the examinations, indicating the methods applied, as well as by whom these examinations were conducted if a commission of experts operated; the evaluation of the results of the examinations and the reasoned answers given to the questions put forward; and the circumstances of relevance to the case established on the initiative of the expert.

Materials illustrating the conclusion and its results are attached to this conclusion and serve as an integral part of it. Materials documenting the course, conditions and results of the study are stored in a state forensic expert institution or a non-state forensic expert organization or other enterprise, institution, organization within the time limits established by law. At the request of the court that appointed the examination, they are submitted for inclusion in the case.

The opinion must contain a justification for refusing to answer some of the questions posed if the insufficiency of the presented objects of examination, materials or specialized knowledge of the expert have been revealed in the course of the research.

At the completion of the researches, the opinion, the objects of examination and the materials of the case file shall be directed to the court that appointed the expert examination.

The opinion shall be investigated at the judicial session and assessed alongside with other evidence.