Date of the judgment: 18.10.2018.
Official publication: 22.10.2018.
On Compliance of Para 3.1 and Para 15 of the Cabinet Regulation of 5 November 2013 Nr. 1268 “Regulation on the Functioning of the Treatment Risk Fund” with Article 64 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia
The Constitutional Court held:
to recognise Para 3.1 and Para 15 of the Cabinet Regulation of 5 November 2013 No. 1268 “Regulation on the Functioning of the Treatment Risk Fund” as being compatible with Article 64 of the Satversme.
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