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18.05.2022
Government Presents Draft Penitentiary Code
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The Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code will enter into force on July 1, 2022. Accordingly, it is necessary to make relevant amendments to the RA Penitentiary Code too. The draft on which was debated at the sitting of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs on May 18.

According to the RA Deputy Minister of Justice Arpine Sargsyan, the new draft Penitentiary Code comes to complete the whole package of reforms of the criminal justice chain. The representative of the executive body singled out the main changes in the penitentiary sphere, which, according to the Government can provide a qualitatively new threshold for the logic development of the system. The whole Code is built on the logic that every convict should have an individualized planning for serving a sentence. The draft innovation is that the multidisciplinary Resocialization Commission will be involved in the work with the convict starting from the quarantine department. The types of correctional facilities will be replaced by three security zones: low, medium and high, taking into account the risk and needs assessment of convicts. Mild and severe regimes of punishment will also be established, as well as changes in the system of incentives and penalties.

The new RA Criminal Procedure Code no longer includes the stage of execution of judicial acts defined in the current Code, which in fact should be envisaged in the RA Penitentiary Code, as it is already about the ongoing activities after the end of criminal proceedings.

The issues of medical assistance and service of convicts will be settled with a separate chapter for the first time.

In response to the questions of the Committee Chair Vladimir Vardanyan, the deputies Alkhas Ghazaryan, Arpine Davoyan, Vahagn Hovakimyan and Vigen Khachatryan, the Deputy Minister of Justice referred to the procedural issues related to the transfer of the convict to another security zone by the Resocialization Commission, the planning and organization of health services of 1027 convicts in the penitentiaries, differences in the separation of three security zones, parcels to convicts, the process of sending parcels etc.

In his co-report, Vladimir Vardanyan called on his colleagues to endorse the draft on condition that there will be working debates with the participation of interested representatives of the sphere and the problems that arose during the first to the second readings will be corrected.

The Committee endorsed the initiative.


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Hakob Arshakyan Receives Delegation Led by First Vice President of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jiří Růžička
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Government Plans to Make Community Development Programs More Targeted
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Vice-President of Senate of Parliament of Czech Reoublic: “I am proud that the Czech Republic has recognized the Armenian Genocide”
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Italy-Armenia Friendship Group of Italian Parliament Hosted in National Assembly
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Audit Chamber Presents 9 Proposals to RA Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure
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Chamber of Commerce and Industry to Provide Export and Import Certificates by Legislative Initiative of Government: the RA Minister of Economy
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Economic Issues in RA-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement Discussed
On May 18, a workshop was held in the National Assembly dedicated to the discussion of the economic issues in the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed between Armenia and the European Union. The workshop took place within the framework of the EU Twinning Project, which is c...

18.05.2022
Artur Hovhannisyan: “The Armenian side expects the political support of the Czech Republic in liberalization of visas”
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Minister of Finance of Republic of Armenia: “The purpose of the legislative initiative of the Government is to regulate the royalty taxation system”
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Border Control Functions to be Carried Out Through NSS or Customs Bodies: RA SRC Chairman
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Executive Body Proposes Amendments to Law on Aviation
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18.05.2022
Italian Deputies Pay Tribute in Tsitsternakaberd Memorial Complex
On May 18, the delegation of the Italian Parliament arrived in Armenia accompanied by the Head of the RA NA Armenia-Italy Friendship Group Maria Karapetyan and the members of the Group visited Tsitsternakaberd Memorial Complex. The delegates laid flowers at the Eternal Flame perpetuating the memory ...

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Criminal Responsibility to be Designed in Case of Also Illegal Circulation of Derivatives of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
The executive body proposed addenda to the law on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic (Psychoactive) Substances and the RA Criminal Code. Criminal responsibility will be designed also in case of also illegal circulation of the derivatives of narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive) substances, con...

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Amendments and Addenda to Law on Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin
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