Date of the judgment: 14.01.2004.
Official publication: 15.01.2004.
On Compliance of Sub-para 4 of Para 2 of Transitional Provisions and Section 31 (4) of Law On Maternity and Sickness Insurance, as well as the Cabinet of Ministers July 28, 1998 Regulations No.270 "The Procedure of Calculating the Average Insurance Payment Salary and the Procedure of Granting, Calculation and Payment of the State Social Insurance Benefits" with Articles 1, 91 and 109 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia
Constitutional Court ruled to declare the fourth part of Article 31 (in the wording, which was in effect up to January 1, 2003) and Item 2, Sub-item 4 of the Transitional Provisions of the Law ”On Maternity and Sickness Insurance” as being unconformable with Article 91 of the Republic of Latvia and – as concerns the submitters of the constitutional claim Irīna Pīgozne and Baiba Strupiša – null and void as of the moment when the right to the sickness and maternity benefits arose.