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The HRD referred to the RA CC on August 27 asking to examine the compatibility of Article 260 Paragraph 3 and Article 262 Paragraph 2 of the RA Criminal Code regarding administrative violations adopted in 1985 and still in force with the RA Constitution.

Today the CC started the trial of the case. Staff members of the HRD Office Aram Vardanyan and Hayk Abgaryan were appointed as plaintiff party representatives in the CC. The NA was involved as the defendant party. The position of the defendant party in the session was presented by the main specialist of the Legal Expertise Unit of the NA Legal Department Sveta Hambardzoumyan and leading specialist Hasmik Sardaryan.

The plaintiff reasoned that the indicated provisions of the law cannot be implemented since they consist of regulations of legal issues of a non-existing state, which in many cases contradict to the laws of independent Armenia adopted during the last 20 years, Constitution and International agreements.

The CC President Gagik Haroutyunyan said that the CC has to take under examination the dead laws of the state that stopped existing 20 years ago.

To the question of the CC whether there is a project of the new law about administrative violations circulating in the NA, the NA representative S. Hambardzoumyan replied that there is no project on the law neither in circulation nor in initial phase.

On November 19 the Judicial Department presented to the CC a precedential analysis after the examination of which and comparison of the facts the CC will announce its decision.