On June 3 the sitting of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, presided over by Mr. Davit Harutyunyan, was held. The legislative package On State Service in RA NA Staff and On Making Addendum to RA law On Civil Service submitted by RA NA Speaker Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan was debated in the procedure of the first reading.

RA NA Speaker said that an attempt was made by the draft law to solve the issue of the legal status of the faction’s experts and the deputies’ assistants. At present, they are considered persons fulfilling technical service. In case of passing the legislative package their term of service will be considered as term of service of state administration sphere. According to Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan’s assessment, this is a practical mechanism both for factions and for deputies, in order to elect more qualified specialists, as the procedure of working in the faction or deputy’s assistant will be considered as a necessary term of service for entering into state system, unlike the acting procedure, when the latter’s term of service does not allow to work in any state body later. The acting edition of the law designs a mechanism, according to which, in case of opening a vacant post of state service in RA NA Staff, it is filled by closed, later only by open competition. The acting law gives advantage even among the persons, who won in an open competition, to the persons, who have higher ranking class degree of state service, longer term of service or those, who have other advantages, which the staff of the National Assembly turns into closed body. Thus, the vacant post is filled only by the existing resources, without creating an opportunity for the inflow of human resources. The author of the draft law, NA Speaker Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan said that the institute of closed competition has been moved, and as a way of filling vacant posts an open competition was envisaged.

In his co-report Chairman of NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs Mr. Davit Harutyunyan reminded that the government submitted a similar draft law to the government.

The legislative package On Amending the RA Judicial Code and On Amending the RA law On the Prosecutor’s Office was also debated in the first reading.

The Committee endorsed the debated package of the bills and proposed to include it in the agendas of the session and forthcoming four-day sittings.

The Committee debated in the second reading and proposed also to endorse on the agenda of forthcoming four-day sittings the draft law On Making Addendum to RA law On RA Holidays and Memorial Days initiated by NA deputies Mr. Armen Ashotyan, Mrs. Naira Zohrabyan, Mrs. Anahit Bakhshyan and Mr. Arman Sahakyan.

The debates of the bills On Making Addendum in the RA Criminal Proceedings Code and On Making Amendments and Addenda in RA Criminal Code and draft laws of the decisions submitted by NA deputies Hakob Hakobyan, Sasun Mikaelyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan On Making Amendments to NA Decision On Motion of Allowing to Involve as a Defendant the Deputy Myasnik Malkhasyan and Apply as a Constraint Detention Against Him, On Making Amendments to NA Decision On Motion of Allowing to Involve as a Defendant the Deputy Sasun Mikayelyan and Apply as a Constraint Detention Against Him, On Making Amendments to NA Decision On Motion of Allowing to Involve as a Defendant the Deputy Hakob V. Hakobyan and Apply as a Constraint Detention Against Him and On Making Amendments to NA Decision On Motion of Allowing to Involve as a Defendant the Deputy Khachatur Sukiasyan and Apply as a Constraint Detention Against Him were delayed for 30 days.