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11.09.2023
It is designed to create a database where all data of donation transactions to be stored
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The necessity for this agenda item arose due to the sharp increase in donation transactions. The draft aims to submit reports to the Central Bank regarding donations for notaries and the Cadastre Committee in the RA. The first RA Deputy Minister of Justice Ara Mkrtchyan said this while presenting the draft law on Making Amendment and Addendum to the Law on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in the first reading for debate on September 11.

He noted that currently, Article 6.4 of the law defines the cases when reports must be submitted to the RA Central Bank regarding a suspicious transaction or business relationship and (or) a transaction subject to mandatory notification. The cases of property donation are not included in the mentioned list.

According to the information of the Deputy Minister, the cases of acquisition of property rights based on donations have increased in recent years. In 2020, 4.017 donation transactions were registered in Yerevan, 8.674 transactions in the regions, in 2021, 5.882 transactions in Yerevan, 12.060 in the regions, in 2022, 7.334 transactions in Yerevan, and 15.765 in the regions.

The constant growth of the donation transactions contains substantial risks that among them there may be fake and spurious transactions in order to hide and legitimize the illegally acquired property from the RA law enforcement bodies by alienating it in a legal way.

At the same time, Paragraph 2 of Article 6.3 of the law contains a provision on cash transactions, which does not comply with the regulations of the Law on Non-Cash Operations, thus it should be removed, leaving the existing general regulations.

The NA Vice President Hakob Arshakyan inquired from the rapporteur how the presented draft will prevent the cases of illegal property donation.

“The presented draft is only one of the means of struggle, but not the only one. What problem will it solve? We will have complete reporting, centralized in one place, and enough data about transactions to identify them if necessary, subject them to appropriate analysis in their entirety, identify potential risks and take measures to manage those risks. In individual cases, when we have alerts on specific transactions regarding any illegality, then, having individual data on the transaction in the reports, we can analyze and present it to the law enforcement bodies. They will already fulfill their duties with their toolkits, operative investigative activity and preliminary investigation method and will reveal any case of illegality,” the Deputy Minister said.

“In other words, a database is being created where all donation data will be stored,” Ara Mkrtchyan added.

The Chair of the NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs Gevorg Papoyan presented the endorsement of the Committee.


11.09.2023
Inconsistencies in the licensing sphere to be regulated by legislative initiative
Providing permission in simplified order is designed in case of licensing of the state of the legal entities of foreign states for being engaged with the licensing activity not being designed place requirement by the decision of January 19, 2023 of the Government. The RA Deputy Minister of Economy R...

11.09.2023
National Assembly debates a number of drafts in second reading
On September 11, Parliament debated a number of drafts in the second reading.The draft law on Making Amendments to the RA Civil Code was presented.In the draft law on Making Addenda and Amendments to the RA Law on Cinematography, a number of amendments were made from the first to the second reading,...

11.09.2023
Legislative initiative aimed at fight against gambling
The main essence of the draft law that every citizen should pay the gambling account from the bank or card account belonging to him/her. It means that the citizen cannot pay from other citizen’s card account: The deputy Gevorg Papoyan said presenting the package of drafts on Making Addendum to the L...

11.09.2023
New regulations of Code on Administrative Offenses aim to correct legislative inconsistency
The Government proposes amendments to the RA Code on Administrative Offenses. The new regulations were presented by the Head of the Inspection Bodies’ Coordination Bureau of the RA Prime Minister’s Office Petros Martirosyan. Currently, Article 47.1.2 of the Code sets liability for violations of the ...

11.09.2023
Judicial Code of RA being improved: Examination of issue of subjecting judge to disciplinary liability to be carried out by 4 members of Supreme Judicial Council
The development of the draft stems from the necessity to provide for the possibility of appealing the decisions made as a result of examining the issues of disciplinary liability and termination of the judge’s powers, as well as the need to solve a number of practical problems arising as a result of...

11.09.2023
Petros Martirosyan: Inspection bodes to fully carry out the functions reserved to them, ensuring the security in the appropriate spheres of control and the maintenance of legislation requirements
On April 9, 2018 the Law on State Government System Bodies, by which the Inspection Bodies’ system was formed, entered into force. Meanwhile the names of the bodies implementing control towards formerly relevant spheres and applying responsibility measures for administrative legal offenses prescribe...

11.09.2023
Sargis Khandanyan Receives Representatives of Heinrich Böll Foundation
On September 11, the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Sargis Khandanyan received the representatives of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung/Foundation: The President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Jan-Philipp Albrecht, the Head of the Regional Division of the Foundation Walter Kauf...

11.09.2023
Amendments and addendum to Law on State Control of Food Safety
The Head of the Inspection Bodies’ Coordination Bureau of the RA Prime Minister’s Office Petros Martirosyan presented the draft law on Making Amendments and Addendum to the Law on State Control of Food Safety to the deputies for debate in the first reading. It is designed to regulate the process of ...

11.09.2023
Legislation regulating market control improved
The draft will define the areas of supervision of market control inspection body, the main principles of market control, the functions of the inspection body, the specifics and forms of control, the powers of the RA Government in the field of market control, as well as the rights and responsibilitie...

11.09.2023
Addenda to Rules of Procedure of National Assembly Constitutional Law: Petition of Prosecutor General to be debated in extraordinary session and sitting as well
At the sitting of September 11, the Parliament debated in the first reading the draft law on Making Addenda to the Constitutional Law Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly authored by the deputies Hasmik Hakobyan and Arpine Davoyan.The proposed addenda to the Rules of Procedure of the National...

11.09.2023
Authorizing norm to enable Government to approve standards of state property in a single legal act
The National Assembly debated the proposed addenda and amendments to the Law on the State Property Management in the first reading at the sitting on September 11. The RA Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Armen Simonyan informed that the amendments are conditioned by th...

11.09.2023
Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure: Competitiveness of Armenian organizations carrying out commercial interstate cargo transportation to increase, existence of unified rules of competition in field to be ensured
The necessity to adopt the draft laws is conditioned by the implementation of paragraphs 28 and 30 of the Transport section of the road map for the implementation of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement signed between the EU and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and thei...

11.09.2023
Government has right to take back property attached by it to CNCO, and CNCO does not have right to alienate, pledge, or hand over attached property or its rights to it for free use on initiative
The draft law on Making Addendum to the Law on State Non-Commercial Organizations (SNCOs) proposes to regulate the process of providing property to Community Non-Commercial Organizations (CNCOs) with the right to use it free of charge.According to the key rapporteur, the Head of the RA State Propert...

11.09.2023
Improvement of legal framework for export of dual-purpose goods
The development of the draft is conditioned by the necessity to improve the legal framework for the export of dual-purpose goods, their transit through the RA territory, the transfer of dual- purpose information and the results of intellectual activity, and to clarify the powers and duties of the Go...

11.09.2023
It is proposed to recognize the provisions concerning the investigative sub-division of the law on Tax Service invalid
The parliament debated in the first reading the draft law on Amending the Law on Tax Service. The Deputy Chairman of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) Artur Manukyan informed that it proposed to regulate the provisions of the law with the amendments, which are not in effect anymore.The draft was rev...

11.09.2023
Expenditures incurred by state for injectable medical products to be targeted and effective: Draft authored by Lusine Badalyan and Narek Zeynalyan debated in NA
It is designed to supplement Article 44.2 of the law with a new sentence. Lusine Badalyan said this at the NA regular sitting, during the report on the draft law on Making Addendum to the Law on Medical Assistance and Service to the Population authored by her and Narek Zeynalyan.According to the dep...

11.09.2023
Zaruhi Batoyan: Initiative to establish right to create parenting groups in field of inclusive education
The purpose of the draft law on Making Addenda and Amendments to the Law on General Education is to promote the implementation of inclusive education in the republic. The author of the draft, the deputy of the NA Civil Contract Faction Zaruhi Batoyan said this at the NA regular sitting on September ...

11.09.2023
It is planned that persons with disabilities of third group will also receive medicine for free
The Government has the authority to set the prices of the support measures provided to persons with disabilities, and in this case, it was also necessary to issue repair certificates based on the certificates, and in order for the Government to be able to set their price range and prices clearly, it...

11.09.2023
Issue on Ratifying Protocol No 13 on Abolition of the Death Penalty in All Cases debated: Abolition of the Death Penalty continues remaining one of the RA important international commitments
Basically, the death penalty is abolished by the Protocol, and nobody can be condemned and put to death penalty, and any reservation of Protocol provisions is not permissible in terms of Article 57 of the Convention. The ratification is harmonious with the position of the state to consider the death...

11.09.2023
Issue of removing sport facility located at Tsitsernakaberd highway 5 from privatization list and handing it over to Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport debated at NA sitting
Taking into consideration the lack of sport facilities in the republic, we propose to remove from the list of privatization and hand over to the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport the sport facility located at Tsitsernakaberd highway 5, which has served Armenian sport for many year...

11.09.2023
More simplified conditions to be created for the management of external economic activity in the sphere of foreign trade
The adoption of the draft law on Making Addendum to the Law on Trade and Services is conditioned by ensuring the process of amending the legal acts to provide the permission documents exclusively online. The process of submitting applications and ensuring permission documents by the applicants condi...

11.09.2023
Proposed amendments to actually ensure authorizing norms in Law on Child’s Rights
In the RA, the rights of the child are set by the RA Constitution, the Family Code, the Law on the Child’s Rights, as well as by a number of internationally ratified conventions and treaties: The RA Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Tatevik Stephanyan said this at the NA sitting on Septemb...

11.09.2023
NA debates the issue of ratification of Agreement on Military-Technical Cooperation between the RA Government and the Government of the Czech Republic
The Agreement sets forth the directions of cooperation in the military-technical sphere, which include the process of ensuring control towards the production of the goods of military importance, import, export, licensing, quality, training of necessary specialists and technical personnel, providing ...

11.09.2023
Work of NA sixth session of eighth convocation started
The work of the sixth session of the eighth convocation of the National Assembly started on September 11 under the sounds of the RA Anthem.The NA President Alen Simonyan informed that the Central Electoral Commission presented Protocol No. 17 on granting the mandate of a deputy elected to the Nation...



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