Cooperation of the Venice Commission with Armenia is an excellent example of a strategic co-operation going beyond a specific piece of legislation, President of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio said while presenting report of activities for 2016.

“With Armenia, we are already at this second stage of co-operation concerning the implementing legislation. We provided an opinion on the amended Constitution in 2015. As is the case for Georgia, it was a second comprehensive constitutional reform, following the one of 2005. The aims of the reform were also to complete the transition to a parliamentary form of government, to strengthen the rule of law and to address our Commission’s criticism of the 2005 reform,” Buquicchio said in his speech.

Last year, Venice Commission adopted an opinion on the new electoral code, last week an opinion on the revised law on the constitutional court and the next opinion will be on the new judicial code.