YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Constitutional Court (CC) on April 18 continued examining the application of the RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunian regarding the constitutionality of the governmental decision on development of Yerevan's center. Particularly, the RA Omudsman disputed that a number of provisions of the RA Civil Code and the RA Land Code, as the government's decision No. 1151 on Measures to Implement Development Programs within the Adminisrative Border of the Kentron Community of Yerevan of August 1, 2002, are in compliance with Article 31 of the RA Constitution. According to the decision of the Constitutional Court, Article 218 of the RA Civil Code and Articles 103, 104 and 106 of the RA Land Code, based on which the government made the above mentioned decision, do not meet the requirements of the RA constitutional provisions in terms of regulating the legal relations on forcible alienation of property for state and public needs. "Taking into account that the RA National Assembly and the government are obliged to bring many legal acts concerning the problem in question into line with requirements of the Constitution and the decision of the Constitutional Court in the shortest possible time and to regulate by law the legal regime of property alienation for public and state needs in the supreme public interests, the court sets the moment of such legal regime's taking effect - no later than October 1, 2006, as the deadline for this decision's legal norms recognized not in compliance with the Constitution to lose thier force," the CC decision says.

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