The Armenian Constitutional Right-Protective Centre (ACRPC) NGO submitted an Application against the Armenian State Revenue Committee (currently – the RA Ministry of Finance) and its Customs Service to the European Court of Human Rights.
As it is known, the Administrative Court of the Republic of Armenia decided to refuse the ACRPC claim, the Administrative Court of Appeal left the decision unchanged, while the Court of Cassation just returned the ACRPC Application back.
The essence of this case is that ACRPC demands to determine the customs value of the car obtained for the NGO in 2011, by its actual expenses, according to Article 87 of the RA Customs Code and return the illegally more levied money back.
The Organization initiated this case as an important precedent to stop the widespread violations of charging much larger customs duties by the State Revenue Committee and its Customs Service from individuals and legal entities during imports of goods and, thus to eliminate the illegal obstacle hindering the country’s economic development.
This was the first Application of ACRPC to the European Court of Human Rights, in which the NGO claims that the Republic of Armenia did not provide an effective remedy for legal protection, thus violated the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 13 and did not provide adequate protection opportunity to property rights, thus violated the Article 1 of the Protocol 1 of the Convention.
“Armenian Constitutional Right-Protective Centre” NGO
