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It is designed with the amendments adopted in 2022 in the constitutional law the RA Judicial Code that the norms on the creation of the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal will enter into force from January 1, 2024. But in the presented legal-regulation context, before the abovementioned norms entering into force, a situation is created, when an examination of anti-corruption cases in the order of First Instance is carried out by the specialized Anti-Corruption Court, but the Courts of Civil Appeal and Criminal Appeal carry out re-examination of the acts held on those same cases. The natural and life activity of the Institute requires the specialty factor to be distinctly expressed in all judicial instances authorized in an earlier term from the term established by law, which is envisaged on June 15 of this year. The RA Deputy Minister of Justice Levon Balyan said about this at May 2 NA sitting.

The parliament in the first reading debated the bill on Amending the Constitutional Law on Making Amendments and Addenda to the Constitutional Law the Judicial Code of the Republic of Armenia and the package of the enclosed bills.

Answering to the question of the deputy Artsvik Minasyan on revision of the amount of payment of the judges and their assistants, Levon Balyan noted that in the near future legislative initiative on raising the amount of the payment will be submitted to parliament.

As the rapporteur informed, it is designed to have 12 judges in the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal. The RA Deputy Minister of Justice referred to the facility conditions of the courts, noting that measures are taken to have courts in compliance with the international standards.

The Deputy Chair of the NA Standing (Head) Committee on State and Legal Affairs Arusyak Julhakyan presented the endorsement of the Committee.