LAW "ON BODY REGULATING PUBLIC SERVICES" AMENDED BY RA CC’S DECISION
Noyan Tapan
Feb 21 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. At the February 21 special sitting
RA NA adopted over two dozens of bills and legislative packages. Bill
"On Making Amendments and Additions to RA Civil Code," as well as
another three legislative packages of Judicial Code were completely
adopted. By the latters, amendments and additions are made to laws "On
Ensuring Traffic Security," "On Body Regulating Public Services," to RA
Code of Criminal Procedure and to a number of laws proceeding from it.
The package of amendments to law "On Body Regulating Public Services"
also includes bills "On Making Amendments and Additions to RA
Laws "On Energy," "On Electronic Communication" and to the Water
Code. The necessity of adoption of the package is conditioned by RA
Constitutional Court’s January 16 decision.
CC, in particular, recognized as contradicting to RA Constitution
and invalid the provision of the current law, according to which the
amounts of tariffs set by the Public Services Regulatory Commission are
not subject to appeal at court. The bill, in particular, stipulates
that in case of tariff’s amount’s appealing at the court, the court
checks its correspondence to laws. And the amounts of tariffs set by
the commission are not subject to changing by legal order. In case
of violation of laws the court pronounces a decision on proposal
to make a new decision on setting tariff by the commission pointing
to the necessity to bring it in correspondence with the demands of
laws of commission’s legal act, by simultaneous usage of such legal
regulation means, which will enable the commission to make a new
decision on setting the tariff in a reasonable term. The commission
discusses court’s decision and adopts the respective decision.