On April 20-22, joint discussions on three topical issues of constitutional justice were held between the Constitutional Courts of the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Armenia.
The presidents of the Constitutional Courts of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Austria made presentations on the issue of "The Role of the Constitutional Court in Ensuring the Fundamental Rights of Direct Action."
Alvina Gyulumyan, member of the Constitutional Court the Republic of Armenia and Ingrid Siess-Scherz, member of the Constitutional Court the Republic of Austria made presentations on the issue of "Practice of Case Law of the Constitutional Court Regarding the Rights Guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights”.
Arevik Petrosyan, member of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia and professor Georg Lienbacher, member of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Austria made presentations on the issue of “Status of Implementation of Decisions of the Constitutional Court in the Legal Practice”.
The two-day discussions were attended by all the members of the Constitutional Court of Austria.
Organization of such joint professional discussions in the domain of the constitutional justice is the most effective form of international cooperation and exchange of experience.
Austria is the first country which established the constitutional court /in 1920/; it has years of international experience and plays a leading role in this field. Active cooperation between the constitutional courts of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Austria has become conventional and is of significant importance in the terms of development of joint approaches to confront the new challenges of constitutional justice.