Summary
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), June 9, 2022ECtHR 9 June 2022, app. no.49270/11 (Savickis and Others v. Latvia), Race, Nationality Discrimination
Savickis and Others - v - Latvia, Latvian case
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.