On October 20-24, 2025, the Research Service held a training course under the general short-term professional development program “Approximation of Ukrainian legislation to EU law: theoretical and practical aspects” for members of the Ukrainian Parliament, employees of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, assistants and advisors to Ukrainian MPs, as well as, on a contractual basis, representatives of state authorities, local self-government bodies, other legal entities and individuals.

The educational event is aimed at providing participants with professional training on: the legal nature of the EU as a supranational intergovernmental integration association, its competences and organizational mechanism; the system of sources of law and the content of the EU acquis; law-making procedures applied in the EU and the specifics of legal technique; the process of implementing the EU acquis into national legal systems; legal regulation of European integration measures in Ukraine; the methodology for preparing and reviewing draft laws aimed at adapting Ukrainian legislation to the EU acquis; and the development of practical skills in analyzing draft laws for compliance with EU law.

The training was conducted by:

Vyacheslav Shamray, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Research Service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;

Anna Kondratova, Candidate of Law, Head of the Department for Economic Development and Financial Policy of the Research Service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;

Olha  Strieltsova, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Sector for Legislative Support of Economic Modernization of the Department for Economic Development and Financial Policy of the Research Service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.