Summary

Very weighty reasons for exclusion of employment periods accrued in other former USSR states in state pension calculation for permanently resident non-citizens, in contrast to Latvian citizens: no violation of art. 14 ECHR. The ECtHR’s summary of the case is available on: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=002-13683.

Order

The Court:

• Decides, unanimously, to strike the application out of its list of cases insofar as the first applicant is concerned;
• Declares, unanimously, the remainder of the application admissible;
• Holds, by ten votes to seven, that there has been no violation of Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1.