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AMENDMENTS ENVISAGED TO LAW ON REMUNERATION, PROVISION OF SERVICES AND ENSURING SECURITY OF PRESIDENT OF RA
Noyan Tapan
March 17, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly on March 17
discussed in the first reading the government-submitted bill that
envisages amendments to the RA Law on Remuneration, Provision of
Services and Ensuring the Security of the President of the RA.
According to the main speaker, the RA minister of justice Gevorg
Danielian, the bill attemps to bring the law adopted on February 19,
1996 into line with the current Constituion, in particular, it removes
the provisions on vice president of the RA from the current law.
The government also proposes making partial amendments in the article
on provision of services and ensuring the security of the president
after retirement. Based on these amendments, after the retirement,
except in cases when president is releived of his post, he is granted
a special pension in the amount of 80% of the Armenian president's
salary envisaged by law - instead of the currently envisaged 75%.
It is proposed to remove the current requirement to provide a retired
president with a state summer cottage. Henceforth the Armenian
government will provide a retired president with an apartment and
a vehicle, at will - also with a furnished office. By the way, the
apartment will be provided as property, while the vehicle - with the
right of lifelong use. Like in the current law, a retired president's
travel expenditures to other countries (no more than twice a year)
can be made at the expense of the state budget.
The provision on lifelong personal state protection of a retired
president remains in force.
In response to questions of MPs, G. Danielian said that under Article
42 of the Constitution, laws aggravating the legal state of a person
have no retroactive force, while laws mitigating the legal state have
such a force so the removed requirement on state summer cottage will
not apply to the retired Armenian president who is currently the only
one to have retired.
Noyan Tapan
March 17, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly on March 17
discussed in the first reading the government-submitted bill that
envisages amendments to the RA Law on Remuneration, Provision of
Services and Ensuring the Security of the President of the RA.
According to the main speaker, the RA minister of justice Gevorg
Danielian, the bill attemps to bring the law adopted on February 19,
1996 into line with the current Constituion, in particular, it removes
the provisions on vice president of the RA from the current law.
The government also proposes making partial amendments in the article
on provision of services and ensuring the security of the president
after retirement. Based on these amendments, after the retirement,
except in cases when president is releived of his post, he is granted
a special pension in the amount of 80% of the Armenian president's
salary envisaged by law - instead of the currently envisaged 75%.
It is proposed to remove the current requirement to provide a retired
president with a state summer cottage. Henceforth the Armenian
government will provide a retired president with an apartment and
a vehicle, at will - also with a furnished office. By the way, the
apartment will be provided as property, while the vehicle - with the
right of lifelong use. Like in the current law, a retired president's
travel expenditures to other countries (no more than twice a year)
can be made at the expense of the state budget.
The provision on lifelong personal state protection of a retired
president remains in force.
In response to questions of MPs, G. Danielian said that under Article
42 of the Constitution, laws aggravating the legal state of a person
have no retroactive force, while laws mitigating the legal state have
such a force so the removed requirement on state summer cottage will
not apply to the retired Armenian president who is currently the only
one to have retired.