Announcement of the Constitutional Court
During the last two days, the Constitutional Court has received a number of standard documents from persons expressing their will to joint certain complaints lodged before the Constitutional Court.
The Constitutional Court Law gives a person the right to submit a constitutional complaint to the Constitutional Court in case if the person holds that the fundamental rights established in the Satversme are infringed by any legal norm that fails to comply with a legal norm of a higher legal force. A constitutional complaint should comply with requirements of Article 18 and 19.2 of the Constitutional Court Law.
Namely, a person is committed not only to referring to a particular norm of a law and the article of the Satversme [Constitution], with which, according to the applicant, a particular norm fails to comply, but also to meet requirements established in the Constitutional Court Law. In a constitutional complaint, a person shall substantiate the fact that a particular legal norm infringes the fundamental rights of the applicant in particular, as well as provide legal justification regarding non-constitutionality of a contested norm.
Neither the Constitutional Court Law, nor other effective normative acts provide for the possibility to joint a constitutional complaint submitted by another person.
Consequently, herewith the Constitutional Court shall announce that the standard documents submitted cannot be regarded as an application (a constitutional complaint) before the Constitutional Court, and no reply on the merits shall be provided in respect to them.