GOVERNMENT DECREES
Change of the Compensation Size for Slander and Insult
On August 13, 2020, the RA Government approved the draft law “On amendments to the RA Civil code” (Պ-665-19.06.2020-ՊԻ-011/0), proposing to set the amount of compensation provided for by the RA Civil Code for slander up to 3,000 times (3 million AMD) the minimum wage instead of 2,000 times currently, and for insults-up to 2,000 times (2 million AMD) the minimum wage, instead of 1000 times.
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The Twenty-Third Measure to Neutralize the Economic Consequences of Coronavirus Implemented by RA Government
The twenty-third measure adopted by the Government of Armenia to neutralize the economic consequences of the coronavirus provides for the provision of monthly assistance to:
The period of being a beneficiary includes. from July 2020 to March 2021 including.
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The Twenty-Forth Measure to Neutralize the Economic Consequences of Coronavirus Implemented by RA Government
The adoption of the twenty-fourth measure by the Government of the Republic of Armenia to neutralize the economic effects of coronavirus is conditioned by the need to solve numerous problems that have arisen among economic entities engaged in processing grapes due to the spread of the coronavirus. In particular, within the framework of this measure, it is proposed to provide targeted loans to economic entities engaged in harvesting grapes from September 1, 2020, to December 31 under the following conditions
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The State of Emergency Continues
It has been resolved to extend the state of emergency declared in the Republic of Armenia on March 16, 2020 and extended until August 12 until September 11, 2020.
The following changes were made with the decision to extend the state of emergency:
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Tax Legislation
Definition of Conditions of Transactions to be Taxed with New Rules
The draft envisages defining the conditions under which the transaction can be considered as a transaction subject to alienation of apartments and non-residential territories of multi-apartment or divided buildings under construction with compensation below the real value.
The purpose of establishing the above conditions is to recognize a transaction with compensation below the fair value.
Those conditions include the following:
The draft has been approved by the Government on July 30, 2020.
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Definition of New List Of Goods Exempted from Import of Value Added Tax
The Government Armenia has approved the list of goods not subject to taxation by an excise tax, imported by companies and sole entrepreneurs considered to be VAT payers, the import of which is exempt from value-added tax.
Those products include prefabricated building structures, cotton fabrics, ready-made pigments etc.
The purpose of the above-mentioned draft is to alleviate the financial burden of the companies in case of import of goods necessary for receiving the final product in the processing industry.
The draft has been approved by the Government on August 27, 2020.
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JUDICIAL PRACTICE
Anti Corruption Court
The Ministry of Justice of Armenia has submitted for public discussion a package of drafts on establishing an anti-corruption court.
According to the drafts, it is proposed to create a specialized anti-corruption court, which will consider cases of corruption offences provided for in Appendix 6 of the RA Criminal Code and the applications and claims on the basis of the Law on Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin adopted on April 16, 2020.
In the first instance, there will be an anti-corruption court with at least 25 judges, 20 of which will be specialized in investigating corruption crimes, and 5 in the field of confiscation of property of illegal origin, specializing in related cases.
It is also proposed to create two chambers of the anti-corruption court of appeal. The first is the Chamber for the Investigation of Corruption Crimes, with at least 6 judges; second, the Chamber for Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin and related Cases with at least 4 judges.
In the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, two judges will be added to the 6 judges and the court will have 8 judges, who will be considered to have at the same time criminal, including investigation of corruption crimes specializations, and the Civil-Administrative Chamber, which currently has 11 judges, will be supplemented by two judges who will be considered to have at the same time civil, including confiscation of property of illegal origin, investigation of related cases, administrative specializations.
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Supreme Court
It has been decided to include the concept of creating of Supreme Court in the concept of constitutional reforms, during the meeting of the Professional Commission on Constitutional Reforms which has been held on 22th of August 2020. The Concept will be submitted for public discussion in the near future.
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