Case No 2017-17-01

Applicant: Soņa Traube (Sonia Traub)
Date of the judgment: 12.04.2018.
Official publication: 13.04.2018.

On compliance of Section 1 of the law “Amendments to the Law on Privatisation of State and Local Government Residential Houses” adopted on 1 June 2017, and of the law “Amendments to the Law on Land Reform in the Cities of the Republic of Latvia” adopted on 22 June 2017, with Articles 1 and 105 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia

Case short name: Compulsory Lease IV

The Constitutional Court ruled to recognise the contested norms as being incompatible with Article 105 of the Satversme and void as of 1 May 2019.

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Press-releases

• The norms, which as of 1 January 2018 decrease the amount of compulsory land lease, are incompatible with the Satversme
• A case initiated with regard to the norms envisaging changes in the determination of compulsory land lease fees as from the beginning of next year

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