Date of the judgment: 28.05.2021.
Official publication: 28.05.2021.
On Compliance of Sub-para 31.15., 31.29., 31.30., 32.1., 32.4. and 36.2. of “Annex to the Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas “Administrative Territories, Administrative Centres thereof and the Units of Territorial Division”” with Article 1 and Article 101 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia and the Third and the Sixth Part of Article 4, s as well as Article 5 of the European Charter of Local Self-Government
The Constitutional Court held:
1. To terminate legal proceedings in the case in the part with regard to the compliance of Sub-para 15., 31.29. and 31.30. “Annex to the Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas “Administrative Territories, Administrative Centres thereof and the Units of Territorial Division”” with the third part of Article 4 of the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
2. To recognise Sub-para 15., 31.29. and 31.30. of “Annex to the Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas “Administrative Territories, Administrative Centres thereof and the Units of Territorial Division”” as being compatible with the sixth part of Article 4 and Article 5 of the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
3. To recognise Sub-para 15., 31.29. and 31.30. of “Annex to the Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas “Administrative Territories, Administrative Centres thereof and the Units of Territorial Division”” as being incompatible with Article 1 and Article 101 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia.
4. To recognise Sub-para 1., 32.4. and 36.2. of “Annex to the Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas “Administrative Territories, Administrative Centres thereof and the Units of Territorial Division””as being compatible with Article 1 and Article 101 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia, as well as with the sixth part of Article 4 and Article 5 of the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
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