Latvia Bibliography

Constitution

Constitution of Latvia 

 

Legislation

Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas

Asylum Law

Cab. Reg. No. 555 - Financing of Health Care (available in Latvian only)

Cab. Reg. No. 419 - Management of European Union Structural Funds

Cab. Reg. No. 15172 - State Family Benefit  (available in Latvian only)

Education Law

Energy Law

Environmental Protection Law

Fire Safety and Fire-fighting Law

Fishery Law

General Education Law

Immigration Law

Labour Dispute Law

Labour Law

Law on Agriculture and Rural Development

Law on Management of European Union Structural Funds

Law on Police

Law on Pollution

Law on Public Transport Services

Law on Local Governments

Law on Social Security

Law on Specially Protected Nature Territories

Law on the National Library of Latvia

Law on Trade Unions

Management of Trans-European Network Projects Law

Maritime Administration and Marine Safety Law

Military Police (available in Latvian only)

Museums Law

Railway Law

Road Traffic Law

Social Services and Social Assistance Law

Spatial Development Planning Law

Sports Law

The Saeima Rules of Procedure

Tourism Law

Vocational Education Law

Waste Management Law

Youth Law 

 

Websites

EurWORK European Observatory of Working Life: Latvia - Industrial Relations Profile

European Regional Development Fund

International Labour Organisation: Latvia – National Labour Law Profile

Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments

Latvian delegation web presence on Committee of the Regions website  

[sgrau1] Latvian Tourism Development Agency (available in Latvian only)

Maritime Administration

Ministry of Agriculture

Ministry of Culture

Ministry of Economics

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Interior

Ministry of Welfare

Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs

Riga International Airport

State Employment Agency 

 

Publications

Bukovskis K. and Spruds A. , Nation in Transit 2015, Freedom House, 2015

Council of European Municipalities and Regions, Consultation procedures within European States, 2007

A collective work of Dexia Crédit Local Research Department, Sub-national governments in the European Union – Organisation, responsibilities and finance, Dexia Ed., La Défense, 2008.

Council of European Municipalities and Regions, Study on 'Consultation procedures within European States', 2007.

Report on 'Subsidiarity in the multilevel framework of the Lisbon Treaty', Committee of the Regions, drafted by EIPA, 2011. Not published.

Šitcs, M., Giest, S., Dumortier, J. and Artmann, J. eHeath Strategies Country Brief: Latvia, European Commission DG Information, Society and Media, 2010.

Under the supervision of Professors Michael Keating and Jacques Ziller, Study on the Division of Powers between the EU, the Member States and regional and Local Authorities, European University Institute, Florence, 2008.

 

 

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