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On Compliance of the Cabinet of Ministers November 11, 2005 Regulations No. 17 “Amendments to Law “On Coercive Expropriation of Real Estate for State or Public Needs”” and June 9, 2005 Law “Amendments to Law “On Coercive Expropriation of Real Estate for State or Public Needs”” with Articles 1 and 105 of the Republic of Latvia Satversme

Constitutional Court ruled:
1. To declare the Cabinet of Ministers January 11, 2005 Regulations No. 17 ” Amendments to the Law ”On Coercive Expropriation of Real Estate for State or Public Needs”” as unconformable with Article 81 of the Satversme and null and void as of the moment of its issuance.
2. To declare the Law ”Amendments to the Law ”On Coercive Expropriation of Real Estate for State or Public Needs”” as unconformable with Articles 1 and 105 of the Republic of Latvia Satversme and null and void as of the moment of its adoption.
3. As concerns the submitters of the constitutional claim – Juris Jaunzems, Tatjana Čerkovska, Valentīna Leitēna and Gints Gailītis to declare the Law ”Amendments to the Law ”On Coercive Expropriation of Real Estate for State or Public Needs” as null and void as of the moment of its adoption.
4. To declare that September 15, 1992 Law ”On Coercive Expropriation of Real Estate for State or Public Needs” shall be in effect in the wording, which was valid till January 11, 2005 when the Cabinet of Ministers issued Regulations No. 17 ”Amendments to the Law ” On Coercive Expropriation of Real Estate for State or Public Needs”.