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On compliance of the programmes 03.00.00 “Higher Education”, 02.03.00 “Higher Medical Education”, 20.00.00 “Cultural Education” and sub-programme 22.02.00 “Higher Education” of the Law “On the State Budget for 2019”, insofar these do not envisage annual increase of the State-allocated financing for studies in State-founded institutions of higher education in the amount no less than 0.25 per cent of the gross domestic product, as provided for in Section 78 (7) of the Law on Higher Education Institutions, with Article 1 and Article 66 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia

The Constitutional Court held:

1. To recognise Section 78 (7) of the Law on Higher Education as being incompatible with Article 1 and the first sentence of Article 66 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia.
2. To recognise the programmes 03.00.00 “Higher Education”, 02.03.00 “Higher Medical Education”, 20.00.00 “Cultural Education” and sub-programme 22.02.00 “Higher Education” of Annex 4 to the Law “On the State Budget for 2019”, as well the subsidies envisaged in these programmes for State higher education institutions as being compatible with Article 1 and the first sentence of Article 66 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia.