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At March 17 sitting of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, the legislative initiative on Amending the RA Civil Code authored by the NA deputy Alen Simonyan was debated in the second reading.

The legislative amendment relates to the amounts of the compensation of the material damage designed for abuse and slander in the Civil Code. Alen Simonyan proposed to make respectively 3 and 6 thousand times.

According to the Deputy Minister of Justice Vahe Danielyan, the Government proposes to compare the amount of compensation established by the RA Civil Code with the amounts of fines designed by other branches of law while increasing it.

The proposal of the Government was put for voting and was not accepted.

The revised version of the bill was endorsed and the and 3 hours was established for debate at the NA regular sittings.