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Исходный акт (11.01.1998-по сей день)
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National Assembly
Дата принятия
27.12.1997
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President of the Republic of Armenia
Дата подписания
10.01.1998
Дата вступления в силу
11.01.1998

LAW

 

OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

 

Adopted by the National Assembly on 27 December 1997

 

ON STATE DUTY

 

CHAPTER I

 

GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

Article 1.

Subject matter of the Law

This Law shall define:

- the concept of state duty in the Republic of Armenia,

- types of duties and rates,

- the duty payers,

- the procedure for and conditions of levy and reimbursement of duty, granting of privileges, and shall regulate other relations pertaining to state duty.

 

Article 2.

Concept of state duty

In the Republic of Armenia, state duty is a mandatory payment prescribed by law, paid to the State and (or) community budgets of the Republic of Armenia by natural and legal persons for services or actions prescribed by this Law, driven by the execution of powers of state bodies.

(Article 2 amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

CHAPTER II

 

STATE DUTY PAYERS, THEIR RIGHTS ANG OBLIGATIONS

 

Article 3.

State duty payers

In the Republic of Armenia natural and legal persons making use of the services or actions provided for in Article 7 of this Law shall be considered as state duty payers (hereinafter referred to as “state duty payers”).

(Article 3 amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 4.

Rights of state duty payers

State duty payers shall have the right to:

- request the body responsible for charging state duty to make a calculation of the duty and also a re-calculation, if necessary;

- appeal against actions of the body or officials responsible for charging state duty, by way of superiority, as well as through judicial procedure;

- apply to respective state bodies to be granted privileges for payment of the state duty;

- receive a statement of information on the payment of state duty;

- in cases provided for in this Law, request and receive the amount of state duty subject to reimbursement.

(Article 4 amended by HO-111-N of 9 February 2018)

 

Article 5.

Obligations of state duty payers

State duty payers shall be obliged to:

- make a timely and full payment of state duties prescribed by this Law;

- submit documents substantiating the payment of state duty to bodies or officials providing services and carrying out actions upon payment of state duty, except for the cases when the state duty is paid for granting a licence and (or) each enclosure, providing a duplicate copy of a licence and (or) each enclosure, extending the validity of the licence and (or) each enclosure, reformulating the licence and (or) each enclosure, performing the same activity subject to licensing in another place as well, granting a permission for implementation of activity or a duplicate copy of the document attesting the right to permission, extending the validity of the permission for implementation of activity, reformulating the permission for implementation of activity;

- submit documents attesting the privileges reserved to them in relation to the payment of state duty;

- in cases prescribed by this Law, pay to the State Budget the amounts of penalty calculated for the failure to pay the state duty on time.

(Article 5 amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013, HO-123-N of 29 June 2016, supplemented, amended by HO-432-N of 16 November 2022)

(Law HO-432-N of 16 November 2022 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 6.

Termination of liability for state duty

Liability of legal persons for the payment of state duty shall terminate by the fulfilment of this obligation, by exemption from the payment of state duty, by abolition of the state duty or on other grounds prescribed by law; and for natural persons — by fulfilment of the obligation, by exemption from the payment of state duty, by abolition of the state duty or in case of the death of the state duty payer.

(Article 6 amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-283 of 14 December 2001, amended by HO-11-N of 15 December 2005)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 6.1.

Termination of liability for the payment of annual state duty

1. Irrespective of the provisions referred to in Article 6 of this Law, the liability of natural persons and organisations for the payment of the regular annual state duty shall terminate:

(1) by the fulfilment of this liability through payment of the amounts of regular annual state duty by the rates and within the time limits prescribed by this Law (the amount of the state duty shall be considered as paid from the day when accrued to the respective account of the State Budget of the Republic of Armenia), as well as through payment of the amounts of penalties prescribed by this Law for their late payment, by exemption from the payment of the annual state duty, by abolition of the annual state duty by law, as well as in case of the death of a natural person;

(2) in case of termination of validity (revocation) of documents (rights, permissions, patent certificates, licences, qualification certificates) issued as a result of delivery of services or performance of actions deemed as objects chargeable with the annual state duty by the authorised body in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia or in case of termination of notified activity – prior to the last day of the time limit prescribed by this Law for the payment of the regular annual state duty;

(3) where the annual state duty payer, prior to the last day of the time limit prescribed by this Law for the payment of the regular annual state duty or the termination of notified activity, files an application with the authorised body on the termination of validity (revocation) of documents (rights, permissions, patent certificates, licences, qualification certificates) issued as a result of delivery of services or performance of actions deemed as objects chargeable with the annual state duty by the authorised body or on the termination of notified activity and in case of further granting of this application.

Where the annual state duty payer files the application with the authorised body on the termination of validity (revocation) of a right, permission, patent certificate, licence or qualification certificate or on the termination of notified activity after the last day of the time limit prescribed by this Law for the payment of the regular annual state duty, in case the application is granted, only a penalty shall be calculated starting from the last day of the time limit prescribed by this Law for the payment of the regular annual state duty (where a later date is specified in the application — from that day) up to the day of filing the application for the termination (revocation) of an action or notified activity. Where a date earlier than the day of filing the application is specified in the application the penalty shall be calculated up to the day of filing the application for the termination of validity (revocation) of a right, permission, patent certificate, licence or qualification certificate or the termination of notified activity;

(4) in respect of the regular annual state duty as from the day of entry into force of the respective law, in case the type of activity subject to granting of patent certificates, permissions, licensing, granting of qualifications, or notification is not subject to granting of patent certificates, permissions, licensing, granting of qualifications, or notification.

2. In case of suspension of a patent certificate, permission, licence or qualification certificate or notified activity in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia (except for cases of revocation of a patent certificate, permission, licence or qualification certificate or termination of notified activity as prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia upon an application within the period of suspension) the amounts of the regular annual state duties shall be subject to payment, irrespective of the grounds and time limits of suspension of a patent certificate, permission, licence or qualification certificate or notified activity.

3.

(Article 6.1 supplemented by HO-11-N of 15 December 2005, supplemented, amended by HO-14-N of 26 February 2013, amended, supplemented and edited by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 6.2.

Application of prescribed provisions on annual state duty to monthly and quarterly state duties

The provisions on annual state duty prescribed by this Law shall also be applied to monthly and quarterly state duties, unless otherwise provided for by this Law or unless they do not contradict the nature of the relations connected with the payment of monthly or quarterly state duties.

(Article 6.2 supplemented by HO-171-N of 20 November 2014)

 

CHAPTER III

 

OBJECTS CHARGEABLE WITH STATE DUTY

 

Article 7.

Objects chargeable with state duty

In the Republic of Armenia state duty shall be charged for:

(a) statements of claim, applications filed with the court, for appeals and cassation appeals against judicial acts of courts, as well as for the provision of photocopies (duplicate copies) of documents issued by the court;

(a1) individual applications submitted to the Constitutional Court;

(a2)

(b) (point deleted by HO-277 of 28 December 1998)

(c) notarial actions to be performed by a notary;

(d) registering civil status acts, issuing certificates, duplicate copies of certificates or statements of information on the basis of registration, restoring the civil status act and making correction, amendment or supplement in the civil status act, issuing certificate or statement of information on the basis thereof, issuing certificate of marital status, as well as for certifying by Apostille the official documents of the Republic of Armenia;

(e) obtaining citizenship of the Republic of Armenia and changing the citizenship of the Republic of Armenia;

(f) provision of consular services or actions;

(g) state registration;

(h) granting an opinion (authorisation document) of right to export or temporarily export cultural values;

(i) actions of legal significance in relation to legal protection of inventions, industrial designs, plant species, trademarks, geographical indications, appellation of origin, traditional speciality guaranteed, trade names (industrial property objects), integrated circuit topographies;

(j) documents, certain services or actions of legal significance provided to natural persons;

(k) granting licences for the purpose of carrying out activities subject to licensing;

(l) services or actions prescribed by Article 14.2, sub-points 15.4 and 15.4.1 of Article 19, Articles 19.1, 19.2, 19.4, 19.7, 19.8 and 20 of this Law;

(m) obtaining the right to perform activities subject to notification in cases prescribed by law;

(n) carrying out customs operations, implementation of customs escort, temporary storage of goods, and taking of preliminary decisions by customs authorities in the cases provided for by law;

(o) in case of alienating by physical persons a car belonging thereto by the right of ownership to other physical persons, for registration of termination of the right of ownership over the given vehicle, if the car is alienated within 365 days after acquisition thereof (registration of the right of ownership). Within the meaning of this paragraph, receipt of property as a succession or gift shall not be considered as acquisition of a car, and alienation is the transfer of the right of ownership over the car by a physical person to another physical person with any type of compensation (including partial) or gratuitously.

(Article 7 edited, amended by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended by

HO-123 of 13 December 2000, edited by HO-181 of 2 May 2001, HO-375-N of 12 June 2002, HO-282-N of 28 November 2007, supplemented by HO-108-N of 28 April 2009, amended by HO-62-N of 29 April 2010, supplemented by HO-282-N of 28 November 2011, HO-167-N of 20 November 2014, HO-83-N of 22 June 2015, HO-124-N of 13 November 2015, amended by HO-202-N of 17 November 2017, supplemented by HO-234-N of 8 December 2017, HO-45-N of 17 January 2018, amended by HO-111-N of 9 February 2018, supplemented by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019, HO-230-N of 14 November 2019, edited by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021, amended by HO-110-N 3 March 2021, HO-378-N of 10 December 2021, supplemented by HO-596-N of 23 December 2022)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-181-N of 11 April 2024 shall enter into force from 1 July 2025)

 

CHAPTER IV

 

RATES OF STATE DUTY

 

Article 8.

Rates of state duty

Rates of state duty shall be prescribed in relation to the value of property subject to appraisal or in relation to the base duty prescribed by this Law, except for the objects chargeable with an annual state duty prescribed by point “o” of Article 7of this Law.

The amount of base duty shall be set at AMD 1000.

(Article 8 amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-596-N of 23 December 2022)

 

Article 9.

State duty rates for statements of claim, applications filed with the court, for appeals and cassation appeals against judicial acts of courts, as well as for provision of photocopies (duplicate copies) of documents issued by the court, medium copied from the original photos (photo films), audio and video recordings available in the case, and from the electronic medium thereof, as well as for provision of duplicate copies of the computer recording of the court session.

(title amended by HO-282-N of 28 November 2007, edited by HO-111-N of 9 February 2018, HO-177-N of 19 April 2021)

 

1. The following rates of state duty shall be charged for statements of claim, applications filed as prescribed by the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, for appeals and cassation appeals against judicial acts of courts:

 

(1) for statements of claim filed with the courts of first instance of general jurisdiction, including statements of claim filed by a third party with individual claims with respect to the subject-matter of the dispute:

 

(a) with a monetary claim:

in the amount of three percent of the claim value, but not less than 6-fold of the base duty and not more than 25 000-fold of the base duty

(b) with a non-monetary claim:

(c)

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(2) for applications in relation to cases under special proceedings:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(3) for applications on applying provisional measures for securing the claim:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

(4) for applications on annulment of arbitral awards, decision of the financial system mediator, order issued by the notary with a claim for levy of execution of the amount:

In the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(5) for applications on recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(6) for applications on recognition and allowing the execution of foreign judicial acts:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(7) for applications on compulsory enforcement of a decision of the Financial System Mediator, providing judicial support to arbitration

in the amount of 4-fold of the base duty

(8) for statements of claim where the case is subject to or is examined under the procedure of simplified proceedings:

 

(a) with a monetary claim:

in the amount of two percent of the claim value, but not less than 1.5-fold of the base duty

(b) with a non-monetary claim:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(9) for applications on issuing a payment order:

in the amount of 1.5-fold of the base duty

(9.1) under disputes envisaged by Chapter 27.2 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, except for cases envisaged by points 9.2-9.5 of this part:

in the amount of one percent of the procurement price, but not more than 10 000-fold of the base duty

(9.2) under disputes envisaged by chapter 27.2 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia concerning the procurement processes envisaged by part 6 of Article 15 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(9.3) under disputes envisaged on the ground of point 2 of part 1 of Article 46 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

(9.4) under disputes related to appealing against decisions envisaged by part 2 of Article 6 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(9.5) under disputes related to unilateral rescission of procurement contract:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(10) for appeals lodged against judicial acts of the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction:

 

a. under cases of monetary claim:

in the amount of 4 percent of the disputed amount stated in the appeal, and where the claims, whether upheld or not by the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, are disputed in full, in the amount of 4 percent of the claim value, but in any event not less than 15-fold of the base duty and not more than 15 000 of the base duty

b. under cases of non-monetary claim:

b1.

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

c. for appeals against only the reasoning part of the judgment:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

d. for appeals of persons who have not been involved in the case as participants:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

e. for appeals against judicial acts of the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction rendered in cases under special proceedings:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

f. for appeals against the decisions on annulment of the decision of the Financial System Mediator, decisions on compulsory enforcement of the decision of the Financial System Mediator:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

g. for appeals against the decisions on recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

h. for appeals against the decisions on recognition and allowing the execution of a foreign judicial act:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

i. for appeals against the decisions on dismissing the proceedings of the case and leaving a claim or an application without consideration:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

j. for appeals against decisions rendered as a result of examination of applications for restoring the missed time limit for submission of a writ of execution for execution, delaying or deferring the execution of a judicial act, altering the manner of, and procedure for its execution, converting the execution of the judicial act:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

k. for appeals against the payment orders:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

l. for disputes envisaged by Chapter 27.2 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, except for cases provided for by sub-points “m” and “p” of this point:

in the amount of two percent of the procurement price, but not more than 10000-fold of the base duty

m. for disputes envisaged by Chapter 27.2 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, concerning the procurement processes envisaged by part 6 of Article 15 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

n. for disputes envisaged on the ground of point 2 of part 1 of Article 46 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 90-fold of the base duty

o. for disputes related to appealing against the decisions envisaged by part 2 of Article 6 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 75-fold of the base duty

p. for disputes related to unilateral rescission of the procurement contract:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

q. for appeals against the decision rendered upon the discussion of the application for annulment of the order issued by the notary with a claim for levy of execution of the amount:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

(11) for cassation appeals against the judicial acts of the Civil Court of Appeal:

 

a. for cases of monetary claim:

in the amount of 5 percent of the disputed amount stated in the cassation appeal, and where the claims, whether upheld or not by the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, are disputed in full in the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Appeal renders a decision on upholding the claim in full or rejecting it— in the amount of 5 percent of the claim value, but in any event not less than 30-fold of the base duty and not more than 10 000-fold of the base duty

b. for cases of non-monetary claim:

b1.

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

c. for appeals against only the reasoning part of the judgment:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

d. for appeals of persons who are not parties to the case:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

e. for appeals against judicial acts of the Civil Court of Appeal rendered in cases under special proceedings:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

f. for appeals against the decisions on annulment of a decision of the Financial System Mediator, the decisions of the Court of Appeal on compulsory enforcement of the decision of the Financial System Mediator:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

g. for appeals against the decisions of the Court of Appeal on recognition and compulsory enforcement of foreign arbitral award:

in the amount of 70-fold of the base duty

h. for appeals against the decisions on recognition and allowing the execution of a foreign judicial act:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

i. for appeals against decisions on fully or partially quashing the judgment and fully or partially dismissing the proceedings of the case, as well as on fully or partially quashing the judgment and fully or partially leaving the claim or application without examination:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

j. for appeals against decisions of the Court of Appeal rendered for cases of restoring the missed time limit for submitting the writ of execution for execution, delaying or deferring the execution of a judicial act , altering the manner of, and procedure for its execution, converting the execution of a judicial act:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

k. for disputes envisaged by Chapter 27.2 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, except for cases provided for by sub-points “m” and “p” of this point:

in the amount of two percent of the procurement price, but not more than 10000-fold of the base duty

l. for disputes envisaged by Chapter 27.2 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia concerning the procurement processes envisaged by part 6 of Article 15 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

m. for disputes envisaged on the ground of point 2 of part 1 of Article 46 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”:

in the amount of 90-fold of the base duty

n. for disputes related to appeals against the decisions envisaged by part 2 of Article 6 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On procurement”

in the amount of 75-fold of the base duty

o. for disputes related to unilateral rescission of procurement contract:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

1.1. If the law provides for the requirement of mandatory mediation prior to applying to court, the state duty established by point 2 of part 1 of this Article for applications for approval of a mediation agreement concluded in extra-judicial procedure with regard to these cases with the participation of a licensed mediator shall be reduced in the amount of the amount paid to a licensed mediator for mediation performed for up to two hours, but not more than the rate established by the Decision of the Government, and in the amount not less than 10-fold of the base duty.

1.2.

2. The following rates of state duty shall be charged for statements of claim, applications submitted to the courts as prescribed by the Administrative Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, appeals and cassation appeals against judicial acts of the court:

 

(1) for statements of claim submitted to the administrative court, except for the cases provided for this part:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

(2) for statements of claim involving request of contesting the administrative acts, based whereon an administrative sanction in monetary terms has been applied in the following amounts:

 

a. up to AMD 10 thousand, inclusive:

in the amount of 4-fold of the base duty

b. from AMD 10 thousand to AMD 100 thousand, inclusive:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty plus 1 percent of the part exceeding AMD 10 thousand

c. from AMD 100 thousand to AMD one million, inclusive:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty plus 0.5 percent of the part exceeding AMD 100 thousand

d. from AMD one million to AMD five million, inclusive:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty plus 0.25 percent of the part exceeding AMD one million

e. from AMD five million to AMD 10 million, inclusive:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty plus 0.1 percent of the part exceeding AMD five million

f. from AMD 10 million to AMD 50 million, inclusive:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty plus 0.05 percent of the part exceeding AMD 10 million

g. from AMD 50 million to AMD 100 million, inclusive:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty plus 0.025 percent of the part exceeding AMD 50 million

h. more than AMD 100 million:

in the amount of 70-fold of the base duty plus 0.01 percent of the part exceeding AMD 100 million, but not more than 80-fold of the base duty

(3) for applications (statements of claim) with regard to cases under special proceedings:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(4) appeals against the judicial acts of the Administrative Court, except for the cases described by this part:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(5) for appeals against judicial acts issued as a result of contesting the administrative acts provided for by point 2 of this part:

in the amount of state duty to be paid for contesting the relevant administrative act before the administrative court plus 10-fold of the base duty

(6) for appeals against judicial acts rendered with regard to cases under special proceedings of the Administrative Court:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(7) for appeals against decisions on dismissing the proceedings of the case:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(8) for cassation appeals against judicial acts of the Administrative Court of Appeal:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(9) for cassation appeals against judicial acts rendered as a result of examination of appeals provided for by point 5 of this part:

in the amount of state duty to be paid for contesting the relevant judicial act before the Administrative Court plus 20-fold of the base duty

(10) for appeals against judicial acts rendered with regard to cases under special proceedings of the Administrative Court of Appeal:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(11) for cassation appeals against decisions on full of partial quash of the judicial act and on dismissing the proceedings of the case in full or in part:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

3. The following rates of state duty are charged for applications filed to courts, appeals and cassation appeals filed against the court judgments as prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On bankruptcy”:

 

(1) for applications submitted to the Bankruptcy Court:

 

a. for applications on declaring legal persons bankrupt:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

b. for applications on declaring natural persons (including individual entrepreneurs) bankrupt:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

(2) for appeals against judgments rendered by the Bankruptcy Court:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(3) for cassation appeals against decisions of the Court of Appeal with regard to appeals filed against judgments rendered by the Bankruptcy Court:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

4. The following rates of state duty are charged for providing photocopies (duplicate copies) of documents issued by the court, media of photos (photo films), audio recordings, video recordings and media copied from the original electronic medium thereof available in the case and a duplicate copy from the computer recording of the court session:

 

(1) for providing a photocopy (duplicate copy) of civil and criminal judgements, court decisions upon a written application of the participants of the case or other persons:

In the amount of 50 percent of the base duty and in the amount of 15 percent of the base duty for each page prepared

(2) for providing the written hard copy of the writ of execution sent to the Compulsory Enforcement Service:

in the amount of state duty

(3) for providing, upon written application of the participants of the case or other persons, the photocopies of documents enclosed to the statement of claim of participants of the case or those existing in the case:

in the amount of 20 percent of the base duty, and in the amount of ten percent of the base duty for each page prepared

(4) for provision of media of photos (photo films), audio and video recordings available in the case and a medium copied from the original electronic media thereof:

in the amount of 50 per cent of the base duty for each medium (compact laser disc) prepared

(5) for providing a medium copied from the original medium of the computer recording of the court session:

in the amount of 50 per cent of the base duty for each medium (compact laser disc) prepared.

5. In case a claim is submitted in foreign currency or in case of contesting the claim, the state duty shall be calculated based on the average exchange rate of the Armenian Dram against the foreign exchange announced by the Central Bank as of the calendar day preceding the day of submitting the statement of claim or the claim respectively.

(Article 9 edited by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, edited, amended by HO-4 of 12 October 1999, amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented, amended by HO-219 of 11 September 2001, amended by HO-358-N of 29 May 2002, supplemented by HO-148-N of 7 July 2005, edited by HO-60-N of 25 December 2006, amended by HO-282-N of 28 November 2007, edited by HO-111-N of 9 February 2018, supplemented by HO-133-N of 9 July 2019, edited by HO-177-N of 19 April 2021, supplemented by HO-6-N of 21 January 2022, HO-437-N of 16 November 2022, HO-230-N of 26 June 2023)

(Law HO-177-N of 19 April 2021 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-230-N of 26 June 2023 has a final part and a transitional provision)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-181-N of 11 April 2024 shall enter into force from 1 July 2025)

(Article shall, with regard to the amendment to Law HO-390-N of 24 October 2024, enter into force after six months following its official promulgation)

(Law HO-390-N of 24 October 2024 contains a final part and transitional provisions)

 

Article 9.1

State duty rates for the individual applications filed with the Constitutional Court, for providing photocopies (duplicate copies) of documents issued by the Constitutional Court

The following rates of state duty are charged for applying to the Constitutional Court, as well as for providing photocopies (duplicate copies) of documents issued by the Constitutional Court:

 

1. For applying to the Constitutional Court:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

2. For providing the photocopy (duplicate copy) of the Decision of the Constitutional Court to Parties involved in the examination of the case or other persons upon the written application thereof:

in the amount of 50 percent of the base duty and 15 percent of the base duty for each page

(Article 9.1 supplemented by HO-45-N of 17 January 2018, amended by HO-177-N of 19 April 20 21)

(Law HO-177-N of 19 April 2021 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 9.2.

The Rates of state duty for issuing copies (duplicates) of documents issued by the Compulsory Enforcement Service

(Article with regard to supplement to Law HO-181-N of 11 April 2024 shall enter into force from 1 July 2025)

 

Article 10.

The rates of state duty for the statements of claim filed with the state arbitrage, as well as for applications on reviewing the judgments (decisions) of the state arbitrage

(Article deleted by HO-277 of 28 December 1998)

 

Article 11.

The rates of state duty for notarial actions

Notarial offices shall charge state duty for notarial actions at the following rates:

 

1.

for certification of contracts on alienation (except for gift) of each item of immovable property:

 
 

(a) for agricultural non-state land parcels or lands adjoining a house or state-owned or community-owned land parcels:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

 

(b) other immovable property:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

2.

for certification of contracts on the use (lease, gratuitous use, rent, etc.) of immovable property:

 
 

(a) for agricultural non-state land parcels or lands adjoining a house, land parcels deemed to be under state or community ownership, as well as dormitories:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

 

(b) for apartments:

in the amount of the base duty

 

(c) for other immovable property:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

3.

for certification of contracts on alienation (except for gift) of motor vehicles:

 
 

(a) to first priority heirs:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

 

(b) to second and third priority heirs:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

 

(c) to other persons:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

4.

for certification of contracts of pledge (except for mortgage of immovable property or hard pledge of movable property):

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

5.

for certification of contracts of mortgage of immovable property or hard pledge of movable property (except for each item of agricultural non-state land parcels, lands adjoining a house and gardening land parcels, and for residential property):

in the amount of the base duty

6.

for certification of contracts of each item of agricultural non-state land parcels, lands adjoining a house and gardening land parcels, and of residential property:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

7.

for certification of contracts of joining, splitting of agricultural lands, lands adjoining a house and gardening lands:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

8.

for certification of other contracts:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

8.1

for electronic certification of electronic contracts:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

9.

for certification of wills:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

10.

for issuance of a certificate of the right of succession and certification of gift contracts:

 
 

(a) to first priority heirs:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

 

(b) to second and third priority heirs:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

 

(c) to other persons:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

10.1.

for issuance of a certificate attesting the powers of the testator:

in the amount of the base duty

11.

for certification of powers of attorney for the right to possess, use and dispose of immovable property:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

12.

for certification of powers of attorney for possessing, using and disposing of immovable property (except for motor vehicles):

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

13.

for certification of powers of attorney for the management of property rights:

in the amount of the base duty

14.

for certification of powers of attorney for the right to dispose of motor vehicles:

 
 

(a) to first priority heirs:

in the amount of the base duty

 

(b) to second and third priority heirs:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

 

(c) to other persons:

in the amount of twenty-fold of the base duty

15.

for certification of powers of attorney with the power of re-authorisation of the right to dispose of motor vehicles:

 
 

(a) to first priority heirs:

in the amount of the base duty

 

(b) to other persons:

in the amount of thirty-fold of the base duty

16.

for certification of other powers of attorney:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

17.

for the implementation of measures aimed at maintenance of inheritable property:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

18.

for certification of authenticity of each translated page of documents:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

19.

for certification of authenticity of each page of photocopies of documents and excerpts from them:

in the amount of thirty percent of the base duty

20.

for certification of authenticity of document signatures, including the translator’s signature on each document:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

21.

for certification of an agreement concluded between the pledgee and pledgor on granting the claims of the pledgee at the expense of a pledged property without applying to court:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

21.1.

for issuance of an endorsed writ of execution:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

21.2.

for confirmation of facts of legal significance:

 

(a) for confirmation of kinship between persons:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

(b) for confirmation of the fact of custody of a person under another person:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

(c) for confirmation of registration of birth, adoption, marriage, divorce and death:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

(d) for confirmation of the fact of acceptance of succession and place of opening the succession:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

(e) for confirmation of pertinence of documents defining the right:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

(f) for confirmation of possession of property by the right of ownership:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

21.3.

for notifying bodies implementing registration of rights over property to make a preliminary note with regard to the right over property:

in the amount of the base duty

21.4

for certification of authentication of a signature in case of signing on spot in the notarial office under the civil initiative:

in the amount of ten percent of the base duty for each signature

22.

for other notarial actions:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty.

(Article 11 supplemented by HO-227 of 19 June 1998, edited, supplemented, amended by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, HO-4 of 12 October 1999, edited, amended by HO-111 of 6 November 2000, amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-136 of 15 December 2000, edited by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002, amended by HO-198-N of 4 October 2005, supplemented by HO-187-N of 19 October 2016, HO-317-N of 13 December 2017, HO-156-N of 23 March 2018)

 

Article 12.

State duty rates for registration of civil status acts

State duty for registration of civil status acts shall be charged at the following rates:

 

1. for changing the last name, first name and patronymic, including issuing a certificate:

in the amount of thirty-fold of the base duty

2. (point repealed by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021):

 

3. for registering a divorce, including issuing a certificate:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

4. for making an amendment to, supplement to and correction in the civil status acts registration records, including issuing a certificate:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

5. for issuing a duplicate copy of certificates of civil status acts registration:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

6. for acknowledging paternity (maternity):

in the amount of ten-fold the base duty

7. (point repealed by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021)

 

8. for restoring civil status acts registration records, including issuing certificates:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

9. (point repealed by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021)

 

10. (point repealed by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021)

 

11. (point repealed by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021)

 

12. for issuing a statement of information on the absence of marriage in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

13. (point repealed by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021)

 

(Article 12 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, edited, amended and supplemented by HO-28-N of 8 April 2008, supplemented by HO-125-N of 16 September 2010, amended, supplemented, edited by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021)

 

Article 13.

State duty rates for obtaining citizenship of the Republic of Armenia and changing the citizenship of the Republic of Armenia

State duty for obtaining citizenship of the Republic of Armenia and changing the citizenship of the Republic of Armenia shall be charged at the following rates:

 

1. for obtaining the citizenship of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of the base duty

2. for changing the citizenship of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty.

Article 14.

State duty rates for documents, certain services or actions of legal significance provided to natural persons

State duty for documents, certain services or actions of legal significance provided to natural persons shall be charged at the following rates:

 

1. for providing a passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of the base duty

1.1. for issuing an electronic passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia with biometric data or for issuing a convention travel document of a refugee with biometric data:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

1.2. for issuing an identification card of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia or of a refugee:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

2. for a residence certificate issued to stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 150 percent of the base duty

3. for providing documents to foreign nationals and stateless persons for invitation to the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

4. for record-registering citizens of the Republic of Armenia, foreign nationals and stateless persons permanently residing in the territory of the Republic of Armenia (except for refugees and citizens of the Republic of Armenia not having attained the age of sixteen) or for making notes on the actual place of residence in the passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of the base duty

5. for issuing a statement of information by the authorised body in the field of migration and citizenship on the record-registration addresses of natural persons (except for the statement of information on the record-registration addresses of citizens of the Republic of Armenia not having attained the age of sixteen or the statement of information provided to citizens upon the request of state and local self-government bodies of the Republic of Armenia):

in the amount of the base duty

5.1. for providing a statement of personal accounts to natural persons in a documented form by a tax authority more than once per calendar year:

in the amount of the base duty

5.2. for the activity of record-registration of the vehicle:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

5.3. for taking a practical exam for receiving a certificate for the right to drive a vehicle:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

5.4. for permitting to re-equip the vehicle:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

5.5. for providing a record-registration ticket for a newly issued (produced in the given year) vehicle:

in the amount of the base duty

6. (point repealed by HO-123 of 13 December 2000)

 

7. for making notes in the passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia and in the certificate of residence of a stateless person permanently residing in the Republic of Armenia on their validity in other States, for each calendar year of their validity:

in the amount of the base duty

8. for providing documents regarding the residence status of foreign nationals in the Republic of Armenia:

(a) for providing a temporary residence status in the Republic of Armenia and a residence card, as well as record-registration:

in the amount of also 105-fold of the base duty

(b) for providing a permanent residence status in the Republic of Armenia, a permanent residence card, as well as for record-registration:

in the amount of 140-fold of the base duty

(c) for providing a special residence status in the Republic of Armenia, a special passport, as well as for record-registration:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

(d) for extending the period of a temporary residence status in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 105-fold of the base duty

(e) for changing a permanent residence card:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(f) (sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006)

 

(g) for restoring the residence card of foreign nationals having permanent and temporary residence status in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

(h) for giving a new passport instead of a lost special passport of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 75-fold of the base duty

9. for giving foreign nationals and stateless persons an entry visa of the Republic of Armenia at the crossing points of state border of the Republic of Armenia:

(a) for giving an entry visa for visiting the Republic of Armenia:

 

with a right to stay for a period of up to 120 days:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

with a right to stay for a period of up to 21 days:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

(b) for providing a multiple entry visa for visiting the Republic of Armenia:

 

with the right to stay for a period of up to 120 days and with a validity period of up to one year:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

with the right to stay for a period of up to 60 days and with a validity period of up to six months:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(c) for providing a visa of the Republic of Armenia for official purposes:

0

(d) for providing a diplomatic entry visa of the Republic of Armenia:

0

(e) for providing a one-entry transit visa to the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

(f) for providing a multiple entry transit visa to the Republic of Armenia (with a validity period of one year):

in the amount of 18-fold of the base duty

10. for drawing up exit documents for departing for permanent residence outside the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

11. for restoring the lost exit documents for departing for permanent residence outside the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

12. for providing an insert in Russian enclosed to the passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of the base duty.

(Article 14 amended, supplemented by HO-237 of 6 July 1998, HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, edited by HO-462-N of 19 November 2002, supplemented by HO-59-N of 31 March 2004, amended, edited by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006, edited by HO-108-N of 28 April 2009, HO-168-N of 15 November 2010, supplemented by HO-283-N of 22 December 2010, HO-302-N of 30 November 2011, edited by HO-195-N of 17 December 2015, amended and supplemented by HO 464-N of 16 December 2022)

(Law HO-464-N of 16 December 2022 has a final part and transitional provisions)

 

Article 14.1.

State duty rates for extension of validity period of entry visa to the Republic of Armenia for foreign nationals and stateless persons

 

State duty shall be charged in the amount of 50 percent of the base duty for each day of extension of the entry visa.

(Article 14.1 supplemented by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006)

 

Article 14.2.

State duty rate for granting work permits to foreign nationals in the Republic of Armenia

(Article repealed by HO-269-N of 27 May 2021)

 

Article 14.3.

The rate established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia on the basis of reciprocity

 

Other rates not exceeding the maximum rate of state duty specified by law may be established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia for citizens of foreign state on the basis of reciprocity.

(Article 14.3 supplemented by HO-352-N of 13 June 2018)

 

Article 15.

State duty rates for consular services or actions

State duty for consular services or actions (consular charge) shall be charged at the following rates:

 

Rates with coefficients with respect to state duty

 

1.

Consular actions related to passports

Rate

 

(a) for providing (exchanging) an electronic passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia with biometric data

65

 

(b) for providing (exchanging) an electronic passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia under the age of sixteen with biometric data

30

 

(c) for providing (exchanging) a passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia valid in foreign states

65

 

(d) for providing (exchanging) a passport to the citizen of the Republic of Armenia under the age of sixteen valid in foreign states

30

 

(e) for extending the validity of a passport of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia in foreign states for a period of up to two years

10

 

(f) for extending the validity of a passport of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia in foreign states for a period of more than two years

20

 

(g) for providing a certificate of return to the Republic of Armenia

20

 

(h) (sub-point repealed by HO-329-N of 25 October 2023)

 
 

(i) for providing a certificate of return to the Republic of Armenia in cases determined by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, as well as in cases stipulated in the international treaties of the Republic of Armenia

0

 

(j) for taking under consular registration

0

 

(k) for removing from consular registration

0

2.

(point repealed by HO-65-N of 19 June 2013)

 

3.

Processing of entry visa to the Republic of Armenia

 
 

(a) for providing an entry visa to visit the Republic of Armenia (with a right to stay for a period of up to 21 days)

3

 

(b) for providing an entry visa to visit the Republic of Armenia (with a right to stay for a period of up to 120 days)

15

 

(c) for providing a multiple entry visa to visit the Republic of Armenia (with a right to stay for a period of up to 60 days and a validity period for up to six months)

20

 

(d) for providing a multiple entry visa to visit the Republic of Armenia (with a right to stay for a period of up to 120 days and a validity period for up to one year)

40

 

(e) for providing an entry visa to the Republic of Armenia for official purposes

0

 

(f) for providing a diplomatic visa to the Republic of Armenia

0

 

(g) for providing a one-entry transit visa to the Republic of Armenia

10

 

(h) for providing a multiple entry transit visa to the Republic of Armenia (with a validity period of one year)

18

4.

State registration of civil status acts

 
 

(a) for state registration of death, including issuing a certificate

0

 

(b) state registration of birth of a child born to unmarried mother, including issuing a certificate

5

 

(c) for state registration of birth of a child born to married parents, including issuing a certificate

20

 

(d) for state registration of marriage, establishment of paternity or adoption, including issuing a certificate

25

 

(e) for state registration of divorce upon a joint application of spouses or through judicial procedure, including issuing a certificate

120

 

(f) for state registration of divorce from a person having been, in the manner prescribed, declared as missing or having no active legal capacity or imprisoned for a term of not less than three years, including issuing a certificate

20

 

(g) for state registration of change in the last name, first name and patronymic, including issuing a certificate

45

 

(h) for making corrections in or amendments to the civil status acts records

30

 

(i) for recovering the record of the civil status act, including issuing a relevant certificate

45

5.

Notarial actions

 
 

(a) for certification of powers of attorney for the right to possess, use and dispose of immovable property

30

 

(b) for certification of other powers of attorney

15

(b.1) for issuing a certificate attesting the powers of the testator

15

 

(c) for notarial certification of contracts

25

(c.1) for notifying bodies implementing registration of rights over property to make a preliminary note with regard to the right over property

3

 

(d) for certification of each page of copies of documents and excerpts from documents

10

 

(e) for translation of documents from a foreign language into Armenian and notarial certification of each page

10

 

(f) for translation of documents (except for passports and civil status certificates) from Armenian into a foreign language and notarial certification of each page

15

 

(g) for translation of passports and civil status certificates from Armenian into a foreign language and notarial certification of each page

7

 

(h) for the drawing up and confirmation of statements of information attesting a person to be alive, his or her whereabouts and other statements of information

15

 

(i) for certification of authentication of a signature

7

 

(j) for implementation of measures aimed at maintenance of inheritable property

15

 

(k) for certification of wills

15

 

(l) for issuing a certificate of right of succession

10

 

(m) for maintenance of documents accepted for custody — monthly

5

 

(n) for maintenance of money, securities and other values accepted for custody — monthly

10

 

(o) for other notarial services

7

6.

Consular authentication of documents

 
 

(a) for authentication of documents — from natural persons

5

 

(b) for authentication of documents — from legal persons

15

7.

Consular actions related to the request of documents

 
 

(a) for requesting documents and delivering them to an applicant

10

 

(b) for requesting documents and (or) information and drawing up statements of information based thereon

25

8.

For the performance of consular actions beyond working hours — for each hour additionally

 
 

(a) from citizens of the Republic of Armenia

7

 

(b) from foreign nationals

14

8.1

Services provided via visual communication

 
 

(a) for providing (exchanging) a passport of a citizen of the Republic of Armenia valid in foreign states through clarifying the identity of the person applying via visual communication

90

 

(b) for extending the validity of a passport of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia in foreign states through clarifying the identity of the person applying via visual communication

45

 

(c) for providing a certificate of return to the Republic of Armenia through clarifying the identity of the person applying via visual communication

45

9.

For other services

10

 

The rates of state duty defined by this Article shall not include the expenses relating to the delivery of services or performance of actions.

(Article 15 amended, supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, edited by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006, HO-108-N of 28 April 2009, HO-203-N of 8 December 2010, edited, amended by HO-65-N of 19 June 2013, supplemented by HO-187-N of 19 October 2016, edited, amended and supplemented by 329-N of 25 October 2023)

(by point 3 of Article 2 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia HO-187-N “On making supplements to the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On state duty””) (HHPT No 83, 16 November 2016), in sub-point “m” of point 5 of part 1 of Article 15 of the Law HO-186 of 27 December 1997 (HHPT No 1, 11 January 1998), the word “securities” shall be supplemented by the words “, precious metals, stones”, and the word “maintenance” shall be supplemented by the words “and for issuing a certificate”.

The specified supplements may not be made because the words “securities” and “maintenance” are succeeded in sub-point “n” of point 5 of part 1 of Article 15 of the Law.)

 

Article 16.

State duty rates for state registration

State duty for state registration shall be charged at the following rates:

 

1.

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

1.1

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

1.2.

(point repealed by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012)

1.3.

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

1.4.

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

1.5.

(point repealed by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012)

1.6.

for registration (record-registration), at the request of a person, by the State Register of organisations, separated subdivisions and institutions registered (record-registered) by other body carrying out state registration (without registration or record-registration of amendments):

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

1.7.

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

1.8.

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

1.9.

(point repealed by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012)

1.10

for preliminary registration of redomiciliation of foreign legal persons subject to registration in the State Register:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

1.11

for redomiciliation from the Republic of Armenia to other state of legal persons subject to registration in the State Register:

in the amount of twenty-fold of the base duty

1.12.

for the following structures subject to registration (record-registration) in the Single State Register:

 
 

(1) for state registration of non-commercial organisations (except for political parties):

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

 

(2) for state registration of political parties:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

(3) for record-registration of separated sub-divisions, institutions of legal persons registered in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

 

(4) for record-registration of separated sub-divisions, institutions of foreign legal persons:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

(5) for registration of amendments and supplements to the charters of legal persons and separated sub-divisions and institutions thereof, charters with a new edition, amendments to information subject to being recorded in the single state register (except for state registration of the liquidation of a legal person, record of information on being in the process of liquidation, registration in the state register conditioned by changes in the participants of limited liability companies, as well as for registration of amendments to information that are updated in the single state register):

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

 

(6) for state registration of amendments to data (except for the data being automatically updated) of legal persons, head or participant of the executive body of the sub-divisions and institutions thereof in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

 

(6.1) for registration of transfer to trust management of shares of a limited liability company or an additional liability company:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

 

(7) for registration (registrations) according to an application, conditioned by the change of participants of limited liability companies in the state register:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

(8) for state registration of information on the legal person being in the process of liquidation:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

(9) for each state registration conditioned by the re-organisation of legal persons (state registration of a legal person being newly established, state registration of an amendment, state registration of information on the termination of activity):

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

(10) for each state record-registration conditioned by the re-organisation of the institutions and separated sub-divisions (newly created state record-registration, state record-registration of an amendment, state record-registration of information on the termination of activity) in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

2.

for acceptance of an application in paper form for the purpose of state record-registration of individual entrepreneurs:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

2.1

for state record-registration of an amendment to data of individual entrepreneurs, except for information automatically updated in the database of the State Register without an additional application or request of a person:

in the amount of 150 percent of the base duty

2.2

(point repealed by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012)

3.

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

3.1

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

3.2

(point repealed by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021)

4.

(point repealed by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012)

4.1

(point repealed by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012)

47.

(point repealed by HO-109-N of 1 June 2006)

5.

for registration of banks, corporate investments funds, rules of contractual investment funds, investment fund managers, securitisation funds, insurance companies, pension Funds:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

51.

for current state registrations of investments funds, investment fund managers, insurance companies, pension Funds:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

52.

for re-registration of investment funds into investment fund managers:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

6.

for registration of branches of foreign banks, investment fund managers, insurance companies, pension funds:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

7.

for registration of branches of banks, investment fund managers, insurance companies, pension funds registered in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

8.

for registration of representations of foreign banks, investment fund managers, insurance companies, pension funds:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

81.

for registration of representations of banks, investment fund managers and insurance companies registered in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

9.

(point repealed by HO-249-N of 8 December 2005)

10.

(point repealed by HO-27-N of 8 April 2008)

11.

(point repealed by HO-16-N of 13 December 2003)

12.

(point repealed by HO-16-N of 13 December 2003)

13.

(point repealed by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002)

14.

(point repealed by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002)

15.

(point repealed by HO-99 of 11 October 2000)

16.

for registration of the prospectus for securities:

 

(a) where the prospectuses of securities are registered by the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

(b) where the prospectuses of securities are registered by the stock exchange:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

17.

for allocating a registration plate number to an automobile:

in the amount of twelve-fold of the base duty

17.1.

for allocating a registration plate number to a motor vehicle, tricycle, quadricycle, trailer (semi-trailer):

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

18.

(point repealed by HO-173-N of 15 November 2010)

19.

(point repealed by HO-123 of 13 December 2000)

20.

for registration of water transport means:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

21.

for registration of and issuing vehicle registration and state plate numbers to self-propelled agricultural machines:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

22.

for restoration of the lost state registration plate number of self-propelled agricultural machines:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

23.

for issuing a state registration plate number to tractor-trailers:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

24.

for restoration of state registration plate numbers of tractor-trailers:

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

25.

for allocating vehicle record-registration plates to diplomatic representations, consular offices and international organisations:

in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the base duty

26.

for issuing a registration certificate to an automobile, motor vehicle, tricycle, quadricycle, trailer (semi-trailer):

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

27.

(point repealed by HO-173-N of 15 November 2010)

28.

for providing a relevant document on passing annual technical inspection of transportation means:

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

28.1

(point repealed by HO-60-N of 20 January 2021)

29.

for providing a relevant document to self-propelled agricultural machines on having undergone annual technical inspection:

in the amount of 150 percent of the base duty

30.

(point repealed by HO-229-N of 29 November 2006)

31.

(point repealed by HO-123 of 13 December 2000)

32.

for re-registration and removal from record-registration of water transport means, as well as for performance of any action in relation to the amendment to their registration data:

in the amount of the base duty

33.

for registration, re-registration, removal of self-propelled agricultural machines from record-registration, as well as for performance of any action in relation to the amendment to their registration data:

in the amount of 50 percent of the base duty

33.1

for registration of self-propelled road construction vehicles and machines:

in the amount of 150 percent of the base duty

34.

(sub-point repealed by HO-181 of 2 May 2001)

35.

for state registration of medicines:

 
 

(a) for medicines, including new, reproduced, of biotechnological origin, received from blood or plasma, immunological (vaccines, serums, allergens), radioactive, multi-component, homeopathic, veterinary medicine:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

 

(b) for each dosage and (or) form of medicine:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

(c) for new indication(s) of registered medicines:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

(d) for new combinations of registered medicines:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

 

(e) for traditional and herbal medicines (including packaged and labelled herbal raw materials, medicinal teas):

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

(f) for the first form and dosage of one-component homeopathic medicines, each consecutive form and dosage of medicine, new indication(s):

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

 

(g) antiseptics and anti-parasitic medicines for pathogens of diseases, as well as for destructing parasites and insects transferring those pathogens, designed for skin, mucous, hair and nails:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

(h) for reformulation of certificate for state registration:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

 

(i) for re-registration and extension of the period of the certificate:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

35.1

for state registration of goods subject to sanitary and epidemiological control:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

35.2

for state registration of medical products:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

36.

for state registration of rights to property:

 

1.

for state registration of the right of ownership over an item of immovable property or immovable property forming a part of an item of immovable property, except for state registration of the right of ownership based on alienation or judicial act:

in the amount of the base duty

2.

for state registration of the right based on alienation (purchase and sales, gift, exchange, transfer) of a share(s) over an item of immovable property or a part thereof or an item of immovable property, except for undeveloped land parcels considered as state-owned or community-owned ownership:

 
 

(a) for undeveloped land parcels, except for agricultural land parcels or constructions of social or industrial significance with an internal surface area of up to 200 square meters:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

(b) for constructions of social or industrial significance with an internal surface area of more than 200 square meters:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

(c) for agricultural land parcels:

in the amount of the base duty

 

(d) other immovable property:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

3.

for state registration of the right based on alienation (purchase and sales, gift, exchange) of undeveloped land parcels considered as state-owned or community-owned ownership:

in the amount of the base duty

4.

for state registration of rights over immovable property, except for the right of ownership:

in the amount of the base duty

5.

for state registration of the restriction on the right over immovable property, except for cases of restriction applied by virtue of law:

in the amount of the base duty

6.

for state registration of arising, change, transfer or termination of the right over immovable property based on judicial act:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

7.

based on the change of owner of immovable property, where the change of owner is due to delivery (investment, transfer) of immovable property as a contribution in the authorised capital of a legal person or reorganisation of a legal person (consolidation, absorption, division, separation, restructuring) or liquidation of a legal person or transfer, in return for the stock (share) of a legal person, of immovable property to the owner of the stock (share):

in the amount of the base duty

8.

for registration of secured right over movable property, including the pledge of the property right over immovable property:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

In case of state registration of rights over an item of immovable property on different grounds simultaneously, as well as of more than one right over an item of immovable property simultaneously, the maximum of the rates of state duty prescribed for them shall be applied, and in case the rates of state duty are equal — one state duty:

37.

for state registration of certification of types of units of measurement, certification of standard samples:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

38.

for state registration of the permission for the exploration of immovable monuments and archaeological excavations:

 
 

(a) from natural persons:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

 

(b) from legal persons and enterprises having no status of a legal person:

in the amount of four-fold of the base duty

39.

(point repealed by HO-205-N of 11 October 2007)

40.

for registration of an object of intellectual property and for acceptance, by a superior customs authority, of the application on the suspension of release under any customs regime of these products corr.:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

41.

for appointment of conformity assessment body:

in the amount of 120-fold of the base duty

42.

for issuing a certificate of seeds and seedling

in the amount of 5-fold of base duty:

The rates of the state duty defined by points 35, 36 and 42 of this Article shall not include the expenses relating to the delivery of services or performance of actions.

(Article 16 supplemented, amended by HO-227 of 19 June 1998, HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-4 of 12 October 1999, HO-99 of 11 October 2000, HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-136 of 15 December 2000, amended by HO-181 of 2 May 2001, edited, amended by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002, amended by HO-16-N of 13 December 2003, edited by HO-77-N of 11 May 2004, amended by HO-84-N of 26 May 2004, HO-198-N of 4 October 2005, HO-249-N of 8 December 2005, HO-109-N of 1 June 2006, edited by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006, edited, amended by HO-168-N of 9 April 2007, amended, supplemented by HO-229-N of 29 November 2006, supplemented by HO-238-N of 5 December 2006, amended by HO-205-N of 11 October 2007, supplemented by HO-109-N of 26 May 2008, amended, supplemented by HO-173-N of 15 November 2010, amended by HO-221-N of 21 December 2010, amended, supplemented by HO-283-N of 22 December 2010, edited by HO-63-N of 1 March 2011, amended, supplemented by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012, supplemented by HO-44-N of 30 April 2013, edited, amended by HO-275-N of 17 December 2014, edited by HO-167-N of 20 October 2016, HO-88-N of 17 May 2016, supplemented by HO-208-N of 17 November 2016, edited by HO-280-N of 9 December 2019, supplemented by HO-20-N of 19 January 2021, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021, amended by HO-60-N of 20 January 2021, supplemented by HO 545-N of 7 December 2022, HO-306-N of 6 July 2022, amended by HO-464-N of 16 December 2022, supplemented, amended by HO-393-N of 26 October 2022, supplemented by HO-234-N of 22 May 2024)

(Law HO-41-N of 19 January 2021 has a transitional provision and a final part)

(Law HO-464-N of 16 December 2022 has a final part and transitional provisions)

 

Article 17.

State duty rates for granting a conclusion (authorisation document) of right to export or temporarily export cultural values

(title amended by HO-202-N of 17 November 2017)

 

State duty for granting a conclusion (authorisation document) of right to export or temporarily export cultural values shall be charged at the following rates:

(a) for granting a conclusion (authorisation document) of right to export or temporarily export cultural values – in the amount of five-fold of the base duty;

(b) (point repealed by HO-177-N of 6 December 2004)

(c) (point repealed by HO-177-N of 6 December 2004)

(d) (point repealed by HO-177-N of 6 December 2004)

(e) (point repealed by HO-177-N of 6 December 2004)

(f) for issuing a duplicate copy of a conclusion (authorisation document) of right to export or temporarily export cultural values — in the amount of three-fold of the base duty.

The rates of the state duty defined by this Article shall not include the expenses relating to the delivery of services or performance of actions.

(Article 17 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended, supplemented by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, edited, amended by HO-177-N of 6 December 2004, amended by HO-202-N of 17 November 2017)

 

Article 18.

State duty rates for actions of legal significance in relation to legal protection of inventions, industrial designs, plant species, trademarks, geographical indications, appellation of origin, traditional speciality guaranteed, trade names, integrated circuit topographies

(title amended by HO-14 of 26 October 1999, HO-123 of 13 December 2000, HO-62-N of 29 April 2010, supplemented by HO-234-N of 8 December 2017, amended by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021)

 

State duty for actions of legal significance in relation to legal protection of inventions, industrial designs, plant species, trademarks, geographical indications, appellation of origin, traditional speciality guaranteed, trade names, integrated circuit topographies shall be charged at the following rates (by coefficients with regard to the base duty)

 

1.

with regard to the legal protection of inventions:

 
 

(a) for an application for receipt of a patent certificate (short-term patient certificate) for an invention, including for an international application transitioned to the national phase, to take a decision based on the results of registration and preliminary examination

20

for each of more than five points of definition of claim — additional

5

 

(b) for considering the request on earlier publication of the application and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(c) for conducting expert examination of the invention on the merits and taking a decision based on the results thereof (for each independent point of definition of the claim)

120

 

(d) for state registration of the invention and for issuing a patent certificate (short-term patent certificate)

15

 

(e) for publication of the full description of the invention attached to the patent certificate (short-term patent certificate) of the invention — for each page exceeding 25 pages

2,5

 

(f) for considering the appeal filed before the Board of Appeal and taking a decision based on the results thereof 25

 
 

(g) for examining the request for converting the application for granting a patent certificate for an invention into granting a short-term patient certificate for an invention and taking a decision on the basis of the results thereof

10

 

(h) for examining the request for converting the application for granting a short-term patent certificate for an invention into a patent certificate for an invention and taking a decision on the basis of the results thereof

10

 

(i) for examining the request for extending the established time limits and taking a decision based on the results thereof

8

 

(j) for examining the request on continuing the proceeding of the application and taking a decision based on the results thereof

15

 

(k) for examining the request on restoring the rights and taking decisions based on the results thereof

10

 

(l) for examining the claiming of an International or exhibition priority and taking a decision based on the results thereof (for each priority claimed)

10

 

(m) for examining the request for correcting or supplementing the claimed priority and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(n) for examining the request for restoration of the priority right and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(o) for granting the duplicate of the patent certificate (short-term patent certificate)

10

 

(p) for granting the carbon copy of the patent certificate (short-term patent certificate)

5

 

(q) for preserving the validity of the patent certificate for an invention (for each year):

 
 

for the second and third years

20

 

for the fourth and fifth years

25

 

for the sixth and seventh years

30

 

for the eighth and ninth years

40

 

for the tenth and eleventh years

50

 

for the twelfth and thirteenth years

60

 

for the fourteenth and fifteenth years

70

 

for the sixteenth and seventeenth years

80

 

for the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth years

100

 

for the twenty-first and twenty-second years

130

 

for the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years

160

 

(r) for preserving the validity of the short-term patent certificate for an invention (for each year):

 
 

for the second and third years:

20

 

for the fourth and fifth years:

25

 

for the sixth and seventh years:

30

 

for the eighth and ninth years

35

 

for the tenth year

40

 

(s) for examining the request for restoration of validity of the patent certificate (short-term patent certificate) for invention and taking a decision based on the results thereof

50

 

(t) for examining the request for claiming supplementary legal protection and taking a decision based on the results thereof

50

 

(u) for examining the request for making an amendment to the relevant State Register of the Republic of Armenia on Inventions and taking a decision based on the results thereof

8

 

(v) for examining the objection filed to the Board of Appeal against granting a short-term patent certificate for the invention and taking a decision based on the results thereof

40

 

(w) for publication of the new full description of the invention attached to the short-term patent certificate for the invention

5

 

for each page exceeding 25 pages —additional:

1.5

 

(x) for taking a decision on registering the assignment of the rights of the patent holder (for each invention provided for by a contract (assignment deed))

40

 

(y) for registration of a licence (for each invention):

60

 

(z) for registering the amendments to the licence and revoking the licence

10

 

(aa) for examining the request for publication of the announcement on readiness to issue an open licence and taking a decision based on the results thereof

2

 

(ab) for examining the request for publication of information on withdrawal of the announcement on readiness to issue an open licence and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(ac) for examining the request for assignment of the right to receive a patent certificate and taking a decision based on the results thereof

15

 

(ad) for examining the request for making an amendment to the application and taking a decision based on the results thereof

2

 

(ae) for examining the request on reviewing and getting familiar with the documents and materials concerning the application or the registered rights and taking a decision based on the results thereof

12

 

(af) for verifying the conformity of the application with the examination requirements (in formal features) of the Eurasian Patent Convention and for delivering it

30

 

(ag) for examining the request for commencing the examination of the International application transitioned into the national phase earlier than the prescribed time limit and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

2.

(point repealed by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021)

 

3.

with regard to the actions relating to the legal protection of industrial design

 
 

(a) for registering the application on granting a patent certificate for industrial design, conducting preliminary expert examination of the application and taking a decision based on the results thereof

20

 

for each industrial design among industrial designs included in the application — additional:

8

 

(b) for examining the request for making an amendment to the application and taking a decision based on the results thereof

2

 

(c) for examining the claiming of International or exhibition priority and taking a decision based on the results thereof (for each)

10

 

(d) for examining the request for restoration of the priority right and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(e) for examining the request for correcting or supplementing the claimed priority and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(f) for examining the request for extending the publication of the application and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(g) for examining the request for examining and getting familiar with the documents and materials concerning the application or the registered rights and taking a decision based on the results thereof

12

 

(h) for examining the request for restoring the rights and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(i) for examining the request for extending the time limits prescribed and taking a decision based on the results thereof

8

 

(j) for conducting expert examination of the application for industrial design on the merits and taking a decision based on the results thereof

30

 

(k) for each of multiple industrial designs included in the application — additional

20

 

(l) for examining the complaint filed before the Board of Appeal and taking a decision based on the results thereof

15

 

(m) for state registration of the industrial design and granting a patent certificate

15

 

(n) for examining the objection against granting a patent certificate for industrial design and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(o) for extending the validity period of the patent certificate for industrial design:

 
 

for the first five years

60

 

for the second five years

120

 

for the third five years

180

 

for the fourth five years

270

 

for the fifth five years

480

 

(p) for registering the transfer of rights over industrial design (for each industrial design)

40

 

(q) for registering a licence

60

 

for each of multiple industrial designs — additional

45

 

(r) for registering the amendments to the licence on industrial design and revoking the licence

10

 

(s) for issuing a counterpart of the patent certificate

10

 

(t) for issuing a carbon copy of the patent certificate

5

 

(u) for making an amendment to the State Register of Industrial Designs of the Republic of Armenia

8

 

(v) for examining the request for assignment of the right to receiving the patent certificate for industrial design and registering the assignment

15

 

(w) (point repealed by HO-123-N of 22 March 2022)

 
 

(x) for examining the request for restoring the validity of the patent certificate for industrial design and taking a decision based on the results thereof

40

 

(y) for examining the request for restoring the rights to the application and taking a decision based on the results thereof

10

 

(z) for delivering the International application and Eurasian application on industrial design

30

3.1.

with regard to the actions relating to the plant species:

 
 

(a) for filing an application on the plant species

5

 

(b) for claiming priority under the Convention

4

 

(c) for publication of the description of the plant species, for each page exceeding five pages

2

 

(d) for granting a patent certificate

3

 

(e) for registering the licence contract, where that concerns one patent certificate, several patent certificates

(for each of multiple patent certificates)


10

5

 

(f) for granting the counterpart of the patent certificate

1

4.

with regard to the actions relating to the legal protection of trademarks

 
 

(a) for filing an application for a trademark

30

 

(b) for carrying out expert examination of a trademark

40

 

for each of more than one class — additional

15

 

(c) for enjoying a right of priority (by each primary application)

10

 

(d) for separating an application for a trademark

15

 

(e) for filing an application for restoration of a right lost upon missed time limit for implementation of a process in the authorised state body

20

 

(f) for filing an appeal against the decision on restoration of rights before the Board of Appeal

50

 

(g) for filing a complaint before the Board of Appeal, in case of a disagreement with the refusal of the registration of a trademark or the decision on double expert examination on partial registration

50

 

(h) for restoration of the missed time limit

30

 

(i) for extending the time limit envisaged for carrying out any action of the process in the authorised state body

10

 

(j) for making an amendment to the application for a trademark

10

 

(k) for registering a trademark

50

 

(l) for issuing a counterpart of a trademark certificate

30

 

(m) for registering the transfer of rights over a trademark in the State Register of Trademarks (for each trademark provided for by a contract)

60

 

(n) for making an amendment to the State Register of Trademarks

20

 

(o) for submitting an objection against registration of a trademark applied for

10

 

(p) for registering each collective mark and certification mark

90

 

(q) for making the trademark well-known in the Republic of Armenia

250

 

(r) for extending the time limit for the registration of a trademark

120

 

for each of more than one class — additional

10

 

(s) for registering a trademark licence or sublicence in the State Register of Trademarks (for each trademark provided for by a contract)

60

 

(t) for registering changes in conditions of the registered licence or sublicence or the cancellation thereof

25

 

(u) for separating the registration of a trademark and providing a certificate

40

 

(v) for filing an application for international registration or territorial extension of a trademark

30

 

(w) for mentioning the Republic of Armenia under Article 3 in connection with each international registration of a trademark, pursuant to Article 8(7)(a) of the Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks for products of a single class

100

 

for each of more than one class

10

 

for renewing such international registration:

 
 

for products of a single class

100

 

for each of more than one class

10

 

(x) for making a search in the State Register of Trademarks and in the current database of applications for trademarks:

according to the international classification of goods and services — for trademarks identical or similar to
the trademark represented in each class,

according to the international classification of goods and services — for trademarks identical or similar to the trademark presented in each class, by an accelerated procedure,

for trademarks owned by one rightholder and (or) applicant;


 

20


60


60

 

(y) for giving extracts from the State Register of Trademarks

2

 

(z) for filing an application for trademarks and service marks of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter referred to as “Union Trademark”;

35

 

(aa) for filing an application for a Union Collective Trademark;

51

 

(ab) for extending the time period for the response to the request of the agency to be submitted at the stage of preliminary expert examination of the application for the Union Trademark

15

 

(ac) for conducting expert examination of the submitted sign for registration as a Union Trademark or Union Collective Trademark (where the trademark is requested for 1-3 classes of International Classification of Goods and Services (ICGS) (payment to each national patent agency)

102

 

for each of more than three classes – additionally (payment to each national patent agency)

11

 

(ad) for converting an application for a Union Collective Trademark into an application for a Union Trademark

25

 

(ae) for converting an application for a Union Trademark into an application for a Union Collective Trademark

25

 

(af) for converting a Union Collective Trademark into a Union Trademark

51

 

(ag )For converting a Union Trademark into a Union Collective Trademark

51

 

(ah) for making changes in the application for to the Union Trademark or Union Collective Trademark

20

 

(ai) for providing an additional time period for submitting arguments and comments on notification based on the results of the expert examination of an application for a Union Trademark or for a Union Collective Trademark

15

 

(aj) for registering the Union Trademark or a Union Collective Trademark and the issuance of a certificate

76

 

(ak) for making changes to the Single Register of Union Trademarks

25

 

(al) for registering the disposal of the exclusive right (transfer of the right, licence, franchising) over the Union Trademark

76

 

(am) for extending the period of the exclusive right over a Union Trademark or a Union Collective Trademark (payment to each national patent agency)

180

 

(an) for providing an additional 6-month time period for submitting an application for extending the period of the exclusive right over a Union Trademark or a Union Collective Trademark

76

5.

with regard to the legal protection of geographical indications, appellation of origin and traditional speciality guaranteed:

 
 

(a) for filing an application for registration of a geographical indication or an appellation of origin or traditional speciality guaranteed

30

 

(b) for filing an application for the right to use a geographical indication or an appellation of origin

30

 

(c) for conducting expert examination of a geographical indication, an appellation of origin or traditional speciality guaranteed

40

 

(d) for filing, to the Board of Appeal, a complaint against any decision relating to a geographical indication, an appellation of origin or traditional speciality guaranteed

50

 

(e) for submitting an objection against registration of a geographical indication, an appellation of origin or traditional speciality guaranteed

10

 

(f) for withdrawing the application for a geographical indication, an appellation of origin or traditional speciality guaranteed

10

 

(g) for making an amendment, supplement or correction to the documents of the application for a geographical indication, an appellation of origin or traditional speciality guaranteed

10

 

(h) for extending the time limit for submitting additional documents according to the request of the state authorised body during the expert examination

10

 

(i) for granting a certificate for the right to use a geographical indication or an appellation of origin

50

 

(j) for issuing a counterpart of the certificate for the right to use a geographical indication or an appellation of origin

30

 

(k) for renewing the right to use a geographical indication or an appellation of origin

100

 

(l) for filing an application for the right of registration and (or) use of appellations of origin of goods of the Union and conducting an expert examination of the claimed name

102

 

(m) for making changes in the application for the right of registration and (or) use of appellations of origin of goods of the Union

20

 

(n) for registration of the right of registration and (or) use of appellations of origin of goods of the Union

102

 

(o) for making changes to the data of the Single Registry of the appellations of origin of goods of the Union

25

 

(p) for extending the time period of the certificate of the right to use of appellations of origin of goods of the Union (payment to each national patent agency)

180

 

(q) for providing additional 6-months time period for submitting an application for extension of the validity period of the certificate of the right to use of appellations of origin of goods of the Union

76

 

(r) for registration of the right to use of appellations of origin of goods of the Union and provision of a certificate (applies to the appellations of origin of the goods that have been registered before the entry into force of the Agreement on the EAEU Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin of 3 February 2020) (payment to each national patent agency)

51

6.

with regard to the actions relating to the legal protection of trade names:

 
 

(a) for filing an application for registration of trade names to the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia

5

 

(b) (sub-point repealed by HO-63-N of 1 March 2011)

 
 

(c) (sub-point repealed by HO-63-N of 1 March 2011)

 

7.

with regard to the actions relating to the legal protection of integrated circuit topographies:

 
 

(a) for filing an application for the registration of integrated circuit topographies and granting a certificate

20

 

(b) for registering a contract on surrender of exclusive property rights over integrated circuit topographies

30

 

(c) for registering a contract on transfer of property rights on integrated circuit topographies

20

 

(d) for issuing a counterpart of the registration certificate on integrated circuit topographies

2

8.

with regard to other actions:

 
 

(a) for each page of patent information

0.2

 

(b) for issuing extracts from the State Register of the Republic of Armenia on Industrial Property Objects, as well as for providing information on the application (for each object)

2

 

(c) for issuing a certified copy of an application for the industrial property object

10

 

(d) for delivering the international application for an invention

32

 

(e) (sub-point repealed by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021)

 
 

(f) for submitting an application for a qualification examination for a candidate of a patent attorney and accepting the examination

20

 

(g) for registering a patent attorney or for making an amendment to the registration thereof

4

 

(h) for correcting the errors made by the applicant, patent holder or other right holder in the official publications on objects of industrial property (for each)

2.5

 

(i) for filing a complaint before the Board of Appeal in case of a disagreement with the decision of the authorised body on registering licence, sub-licence, transfer (surrender) of rights, or rejecting the registration thereof

50

 

(j) for registering a franchise (for each industrial property object)

60

 

(k) for registering changes in conditions of a registered franchise (for each industrial property object)

30

(Article 18 amended by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, edited, amended by HO-14 of 26 October 1999, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, amended, supplemented by HO-178 of 2 May 2001, edited, supplemented by HO-358-N of 29 May 2002, supplemented by HO-32-N of 18 November 2003, supplemented, amended, edited by HO-140-N of 24 November 2004, HO-255-N of 5 December 2006, amended, supplemented, edited by HO-113-N of 10 June 2008, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-62-N of 29 April 2010, edited, amended by HO-63-N of 1 March 2011, amended by HO-154-N of 28 September 2016, amended, supplemented by HO-156-N of 28 September 2016, supplemented by HO-234-N of 8 December 2017, amended, edited by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021, amended, supplemented and edited by HO-123-N of 22 March 2023)

(Law HO-123-N of 22 March 2023 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 19.

State duty rates for issuing licences, patent certificates (permissions) for the purpose of carrying out activities subject to licensing or permissions

(title supplemented by HO-378-N of 10 December 2021)

 

State duty for issuing licences, patent certificates (permissions) for the purpose of carrying out activities subject to licensing shall be charged at the following rates:

 

1. TRADE SECTOR

(section repealed by HO-171-N of 27 October 2017)

 

2. HEALTHCARE SECTOR

 

2.1

for production of medicines – annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

 

2.2

(sub-point repealed by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007)

 

2.3

(sub-point repealed by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007)

 

2.4

for pharmaceutical activities – annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

2.5

for provision of medical aid and service— annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

2.6

(sub-point repealed by HO-160-N of 25 October 2017)

 

2.7

(sub-point repealed by HO-85-N of 19 June 2013)

2.71.

(sub-point repealed by HO-85-N of 19 June 2013)

2.8

for obtaining a certificate on continuing professional development:

(a) for a senior medical worker:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

(b) for an average medical worker:

in the amount of the base duty

2.8.1.

2.8.2.

2.8.3.

 

2.9.

wholesale of medicines – annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

2.10

for state registration of medical products- annually:

in the amount of the 60-fold of the base duty

 

2.11

for service support of medical products- annually:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

2.12

using of narcotic drugs or psychotropic (psychoactive) substances for scientific and educational purposes:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

2.13

conduct of expert examination by using narcotic drugs or psychotropic (psychoactive) substances — annually:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

3.CURRENCY REGULATION SECTOR

 

from 1 January 2020

from 1 January 2021

 

3.1

trade in foreign currency (at each separate address)— annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

3.2

for holding foreign currency auctions — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 
 

3.3

(point repealed by HO-181-N of 25 March 2020)

4. SECURITIES TURNOVER SECTOR

 

4.1

(sub-point repealed by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007)

 

4.2

for provision of investment services – annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

4.3

for activities of the regulated market operator, of the Central Depositary – annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

4.4.

for carrying out fund management activities – annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

5. SECTOR OF BANKING AND FINANCIAL-CREDIT ORGANISATIONS

 

5.1

for activities of banks (also branches of foreign banks attracting deposits) — annually:

in the amount of 8000-fold of the base duty

 

5.1.1

for activities of each branch of a bank— annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

5.1.2

for activities of each representation of a bank— annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

5.1.3

for activities of each representation of a foreign bank— annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

5.1.4

for activities of branches of foreign banks (not attracting deposits) — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

5.2

for organisation of pawnshops (at each separate address) — annually:

from 1 January 2020 — in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty, from 1 January 2021 — in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

 

5.3

(point repealed by HO-283-N of 22 December 2010)

 

5.4

for performing each class of life insurance — annually:

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

 

5.4.1

for performing any class of non-life insurance — annually:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

 

5.4.2

for performing each class of reinsurance — annually:

in the amount of 3000-fold of the base duty

 

5.4.3

for activities of each branch of an insurance company — annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

 

5.4.4

for activities of each representation of an insurance company — annually:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

 

5.4.5

for activities of each representation of a foreign insurance company — annually:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

 

5.5

the provision of collection services — annually:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

 

5.6

for insurance broker activities — annually:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

 

5.7

(point repealed by HO-289-N of 4 December 2019)

 
 

5.8

for activities of a credit organisation — annually:

in the amount of 6000-fold of the base duty

 

5.8.1

for activities of each branch of a credit organisation (which carries out cash foreign currency exchange) — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

5.8.2

for activities of each branch of a credit organisation (which does not carry out foreign currency exchange) — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

5.8.3

for activities of each representation of a credit organisation) — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

5.9

for performing cash transfers — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

5.9.1

for activities of each branch of an organisation performing cash transfers — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

5.10

for carrying out processing and clearing of payment instruments and settlement documents — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

5.11

for activities of a credit bureau — annually:

 in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

5.12

(point repealed by HO-151-N of 24 November 2004)

 

6. SECTOR OF AGRICULTURE
(point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

7. ENERGY SECTOR

 

7.1

for import of natural gas — annually:

in the amount of 10000-fold of the base duty

 

7.2

for transportation of natural gas — annually:

in the amount of 15000-fold of the base duty

 

7.3

for distribution of natural gas — annually:

in the amount of 15000-fold of the base duty

 

7.4

for export of natural gas — annually:

in the amount of 10000-fold of the base duty

 

7.5

for production of electric energy, including:

 

7.5.1

for the period of construction (reconstruction) of new production capacities in the electric energy system — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

7.5.2

for the period of producing electric energy, including:

 

7.5.2.1

for stations with rated capacity of up to 6 MW (inclusive) — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

7.5.2.2

for stations with rated capacity of 6-15 MW (inclusive) — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

7.5.2.3

for stations with rated capacity of 15-25 MW (inclusive) — annually:

in the amount of 2500-fold of the base duty

 

7.5.2.4

for stations with rated capacity of 25-50 MW (inclusive) — annually

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

 

7.5.2.5

for stations with rated capacity of more than 50 MW (inclusive) — annually:

in the amount of 15000-fold of the base duty

 

7.6

for wholesale trade in electric energy — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

7.7

for transmission of electric energy — annually:

in the amount of 15000-fold of the base duty

 

7.8

for distribution of electric energy — annually:

in the amount of 30000-fold of the base duty

 

7.9

for supply of electric energy (including guaranteed) — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

7.10

for production of thermal energy — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

7.11

for transportation of thermal energy — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

7.12

for distribution of thermal energy — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

7.13

for services of electric energy and gas supply systems — annually:

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

 

7.14

for services of an energy market operator — annually:

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

 

7.15

for construction (reconstruction) of new production capacities in the gas supply system — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

7.1. WATER SECTOR

7.1.1.

for providing drinking water supply or water disposal (cleaning of waste water) services — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

8. EDUCATION SECTOR

 

8.1

implementation of pre-school education programme and (or) provision of pre-school service:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

8.2

implementation of general elementary education programme:

 in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

 

8.3

implementation of basic general education programme:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

 

8.4

implementation of secondary general education programme:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

 

8.5

(sub-point repealed by HO-164-N of 10 July 2009)

 
 

8.5.1

for implementation of primary vocational (handicraft) education programmes:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

 

8.5.2

for implementation of middle vocational education programmes:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

 

8.5.3

for implementation of Bachelor’s education programme — annually:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

 

8.5.4.

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 

8.5.5.

for implementation of Master’s education programme — annually:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

9. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR

9.1.

(sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013)

9.1.1.

(sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013)

9.1.2.

(sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013)

9.1.3.

(sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013)

9.1.4.

(sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013)

 

9.1.1

for operation of public electronic communications network, including:

 

9.1.1.1

for operation of a network in Yerevan and simultaneously in one or more marzes — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

9.1.1.2

for operation of a network in the territory of Yerevan — annually:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

 

9.1.1.3

for operation of a network in more than one marz, the city of Yerevan being not included— annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

 

9.1.1.4

for operation of a network in the territory of one marz — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

9.2.

(sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013)

 
 

9.3.

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

9.4.

(sub-point repealed by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007)

 
 

9.5.

(sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013)

 
 

9.6.

for broadcasting of radio and television programmes, including:

 

(a)

9.6.1.

for on-air broadcasting of television programmes:

 
 

9.6.1.1.

for republican coverage — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

9.6.1.2

for coverage throughout the capital —annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

9.6.1.3

for territorial coverage (except for analog broadcasting) — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(b)

9.6.2.

for broadcasting of radio programmes:

 
 

9.6.2.1

for broadcasting in Yerevan and simultaneously in one or more marzes —annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

9.6.2.2

for broadcasting in the territory of Yerevan — annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

 

9.6.2.3

for broadcasting in more than one marz, the city of Yerevan being not included — annually:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

 

9.6.2.4

for broadcasting in the territory of one marz — annually:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

 

Where the activity of television and radio programme broadcasting is carried out concurrently, the maximum of the state duty rates established for such activity shall apply.

 

9.7.

for receiving a patent certificate (licence) for broadcasting of television and radio programmes, including:

 

9.7.1.

for participating in the tender for licensing television broadcasters to carry out on-air broadcasting of television programmes through digital broadcasting network:

 
 

9.7.1.1.

for republican coverage —

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.1.2.

for coverage throughout the capital —

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.1.3.

for territorial coverage —

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.2.

for on-air broadcasting of radio programmes:

 
 

9.7.2.1.

for on-air broadcasting of radio programmes in the territory of Yerevan and in the territory of one or more marzes —

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.2.2.

for on-air broadcasting of radio programmes in the territory of Yerevan —

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.2.3.

for on-air broadcasting of radio programmes in the territory of several marzes —

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.2.4.

for on-air broadcasting of radio programmes in the territory of one marz —

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.3.

for cable broadcasting of television programmes:

 

9.7.3.1.

for cable broadcasting of television programmes in Yerevan and one or more marzes — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.3.2.

for cable broadcasting of television programmes in Yerevan — annually:

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.3.3.

for cable broadcasting of television programmes in more than one marz — annually:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

 

9.7.3.4.

for cable broadcasting of television programmes in one marz — annually

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

9.8.

for activity of private multiplexor — annually:

in the amount of 100.000-fold of the base duty

   

91. POSTAL COMMUNICATION SECTOR

 

9.1.1

for activities of postal communication — annually:

in the amount of 3000-fold of the base duty

10. CUSTOMS SECTOR

(section repealed by HO-171-N of 27 October 2017)

11. SECTOR OF ATOMIC ENERGY USE

 

11.1.

for selection of a site for nuclear installations — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

11.2

for selection of a site for radioactive waste storage facilities— annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

11.3

for selection of a site for radioactive waste disposal sites — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

11.4

for designing nuclear installations — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

11.5

for designing radioactive waste storage facilities — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

11.6

for designing radioactive waste disposal sites — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

11.7

for construction of nuclear installations — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

11.8

for construction of radioactive waste storage facilities — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

11.9

for construction of radioactive waste disposal sites — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

11.10

for exploitation of nuclear installations — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

11.11

for exploitation of radioactive waste storage facilities — annually:

 in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.12

for exploitation of radioactive waste disposal sites — annually

 in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.13

for decommissioning of nuclear installations — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

11.14

for decommissioning of radioactive waste storage facilities — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.15

for decommissioning of radioactive waste disposal sites — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.16

for import or export of nuclear substances — annually:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

11.17

for import or export of radioactive substances or of devices containing radioactive substances — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.18

for import or export of radioactive wastes — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.19

for utilisation of nuclear substances — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.20

for transportation of nuclear substances — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.21

for storage of nuclear substances — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.22

for production of nuclear substances — annually:

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

 

11.23

for production or utilisation or transportation or storage of radioactive substances — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.24

for production or utilisation or repair or assembly and adjustment or transportation of devices containing radioactive substances — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.25

for utilisation or adjustment of sources of generating radiation — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

11.26

for performing works i.e. for processing of radioactive wastes — annually:

 in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

 

11.27

for performing works, i.e. for storage of radioactive wastes — annually:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

 

11.28

for physical protection of nuclear installations and nuclear substances — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

11.29

for designing devices, equipments, systems important from the point of safety of items of nuclear power utilisation — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

11.30

for preparing devices, equipments, systems important from the point of safety of items of nuclear power utilisation — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

11.31

for expert examination of designs and other documents of items of nuclear power utilisation — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

11.32

for activities of natural persons occupying important positions from the point of ensuring safety in the field of nuclear power utilisation — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

12. ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION SECTOR

 

12.1

for each transcript of the licence for dealing with dangerous wastes — annually:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

12.2

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

12.3

for issuing a permission for delivery of substances destructing the ozone layer:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

12.4

Environmental impact expertise:

1. for carrying out expert examination:

(a) for expert examination of documents of intended activities of Category A:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty, except for the cases of extraction of non-metallic minerals or re- processing of minerals — in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(b) for expert examination of documents of intended activities of Category B:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

2. for examination of the application:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

12.5

(point repealed by HO-210-N of 17 November 2017)

12.6

for issuing a licence to develop an environmental impact assessment report or a strategic environmental assessment report:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

13. QUALITY, STANDARDISATION, CERTIFICATION, CALIBRATION SECTOR

(Section repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

14. SECTOR OF LOTTERIES, GAMES OF CHANCE

 

14.1

for organisation of lotteries — annually:

in the amount of 600000-fold of the base duty

14.2

for organisation of games of chance and operation of casinos in each place, including:

 

14.2.1

in Tsaghkadzor city — annually:

in the amount of 180000-fold of the base duty

 

14.2.2

in Sevan city — annually:

in the amount of 150000-fold of the base duty

 

14.2.3

in Jermuk city — annually:

in the amount of 100000-fold of the base duty

 

14.2.4

in Meghri city — annually:

in the amount of 35000-fold of the base duty

 

14.2.5

in other places — annually:

in the amount of 5500000-fold of the base duty

 

14.3

for organisation of internet gaming — annually:

in the amount of 600000-fold of the base duty

15. TRANSPORT SECTOR

 

15.1

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

15.2

(sub-point repealed by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007, HO-85-N of 22 February 2007)

 

15.3

for organising railway transport activities — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

15.4

for carrying out activities of compulsory technical inspection of transportation means and trailers thereof for each flow line used — annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

15.4.1

for organisation of regular transportation by passenger motor vehicles designated for general use:

 
 

-for obtaining a right of service support of interstate, inter-regional, intra-regional, intra- community route (irrespective of number of routes) by organisations and individual entrepreneurs:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

15.5

for organisation of passenger transportation by passenger taxi:

 
   

- for organisation of transportation of passengers by one to four passenger taxis by individual entrepreneurs and organisations — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

   

- for organisation of transportation of passengers by more than four passenger taxis by individual entrepreneurs and organisations — annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

- for operating an airport taxi service by individual entrepreneurs and organisations — annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

- for carrying out activities of professional training for transporting dangerous cargo — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

15.6

(point repealed by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019)

15.7.

for granting, in cases provided by law, to heavy means of transportation exceeding the permissible maximum mass and (or) the load on one axle and (or) exceeding large dimensions, a one-time route permit for transportation of indivisible goods on the motor roads of common use of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

15.8

for carrying out activities with regard to installation of gas tanks on motor vehicles operating on compressed natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas and (or) regular certification of gas tanks — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

16. URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECTOR

 

16.1.

1st class

Drawing up of urban development documents (except for design and architectural parts), for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

 

16.2.

2nd class

Drawing up of urban development documents (except for design and architectural parts), for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

16.3.

3rd class

Drawing up of urban development documents (except for design and architectural parts), for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

 

16.4.

1st class

Expert examination of urban development documents, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

16.5.

2nd class

Expert examination of urban development documents, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

16.6.

1st class

Performing construction, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 160-fold of the base duty

 

16.7.

2nd class

Performing construction, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

 

16.8.

3rd class

Performing construction, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

16.9.

1st class

Technical inspection of construction quality, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 70-fold of the base duty

 

16.10.

2nd class

Technical control of construction quality, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

16.11.

1st class

Providing inspection and survey services for objects of urban development, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

 

16.12

2nd class

Providing inspection and survey services for objects of urban development, for each insert — annually:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

 

16.13.

For obtaining 1st category certificate for continuous professional development:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

16.14.

For obtaining 2nd category certificate for continuous professional development:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

 

16.15.

For obtaining 3rd category certificate for continuous professional development:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

 

16.16.

For highest level rating (in compliance with the prescribed standards):

 
   

(a) for 1st class licensed entities of urban development:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

   

(b) for 2nd class licensed entities of urban development:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

   

(c) for 3rd class licensed entities of urban development:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

   

17. SECTOR OF PATENT CERTIFICATES (PERMISSIONS, LICENCES) FOR USE (EXPLOITATION) OF STATE-OWNED SUBSOIL AND NATURAL RESOURCES

(point repealed by HO-282-N of 28 November 2011)

   

171. SOCIAL PROTECTION SECTOR

(section repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

18. OTHER SECTORS OF ACTIVITIES

 

18.1

for conducting expert examinations provided for by law as regards the types of activities subject to licensing — annually:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

 

18.2

(sub-point repealed by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007)

 
 

18.3

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

18.4

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

18.5

(sub-point repealed by HO-338-N of 8 December 2011)

 
 

18.6

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

18.7

(sub-point repealed by HO-482-N of 11 December 2002)

 
 

18.8

(sub-point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

 
 

18.8.1

(sub-point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

 
 

18.9

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

18.10

(sub-point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

 
 

18.11

(sub-point repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

 
 

18.12*

Regarding the narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances or the precursors thereof defined by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, except where the activity subject to licensing concerns the industrial hemp:

 
   

- for production thereof — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

   

- for export, import or wholesale trade thereof — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

18.13*

(sub-point repealed by HO-13-N of 4 February 2010)

 

18.14

(sub-point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

 

18.14.1.

(sub-point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

 

18.14.2.

(sub-point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

 

18.14.3.

(sub-point repealed by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015)

 

18.15

Production of industrial hemp — annually:

   

- for up to one tonne quota of hemp flower and herbage:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

   

- for up to 100 litre quota of cannabis oil:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

   

- for quota exceeding one tonne of hemp flower and herbage:

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty for each tonne

   

- for quota exceeding 100 litre of cannabis oil:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty for each 10 litres

   

- import, export or wholesale trade:

 
   

- for up to one tonne quota of hemp flower and herbage:

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

   

- for up to 100 litre quota of cannabis oil:

in the amount of 10000-fold of the base duty

   

- for quota exceeding one tonne of hemp flower and herbage:

in the amount of 30000-fold of the base duty

   

- for quota exceeding 100 litre of cannabis oil:

in the amount of 60000-fold of the base duty

   

- for each hemp plant or for 350-500 pieces of cuttings:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

   

- for each gram of seed:

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

 

18.16

For granting permit to export, import of industrial hemp:

 
   

-for each kilogram of hemp flower and herbage:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

   

- for each litre of cannabis oil:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

   

- for each hemp plant or for 350-500 pieces of cuttings:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

   

- for each gram of seed:

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

 

18.17

a state duty is charged for renewal or reformulation of licences mentioned in point 18.15 in the same amount provided for the given licences:

 
 

18.18.

for the use (including import, export) of genetically modified organisms in an isolated system:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

18.19.

Production of pyrotechnic products:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

18.20.

Import of pyrotechnic products:

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

 

18.21.

Trade in (sales of) pyrotechnic products (except for the I and II class pyrotechnic products of household significance) :

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

18.22.

Storage of pyrotechnic products:

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

 

18.23.

Transportation of pyrotechnic products:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

 

18.24.

Application (exploitation) of pyrotechnic products (except for the I and II class pyrotechnic products of household significance) :

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

 

19.

Except for the cases referred to in points 1 to 18.17 of this Article and in Articles 191 and 192:

 
   

from natural persons — annually:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

   

from legal persons — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

20.

For sales in the trade for purchase of a motor vehicle (including agricultural machinery) - annually:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty from 1 January 2023— in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

   

19. FIELD OF SPACE ACTIVITIES

 
 

19.1

For space activities — annually:

In the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

 

20.

For issuing a duplicate copy of the licence:

in the double amount of the rate provided for issuing the given type of licence, but not more than the 24-fold of the base duty

 

21.

For issuing a duplicate copy of the insert of the licence:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

22.

For reformulation of a licence:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

 

23.

For providing the hard copy of each piece of information from the e-register of licences to other persons:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

 

24.

For renewal of a licence:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

 

25.

Except for the types of activities subject to licensing as referred to in points 3.1.1, 5.2, 9.1 to 9.6, 14.2, 17.1 to 17.6 and 18.14, for issuing a licence for carrying out the same type of activities subject to licensing in each additional place — annually:

in the amount of 50 percent of the state duty rate defined for issuing the given type of licence.

 

Where pursuant to the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On licensing”, a licensee is obliged to carry out the activities subject to licensing only in the place stated in the licence, in case of simultaneous filing of applications for obtaining licences to perform the same activity subject to licensing in more than one place, the applicant may, on his or her own, choose the licence, wherefor the annual state duties defined by this Law are to be charged (paid) by the rates established by points 1 to 19 of this Article. In case the applicant fails to determine on his or her own and (or) inform the licensing authority, the latter shall determine upon its discretion under which licence for carrying out the same activity the annual state duty — defined by this Law at the rates established by points 1 to 19 of this Article — is subject to charging (payment).

Except for the licence granted based on the state duty paid at the rates defined by points 1 to 19 of this Article the annual state duties for granting a licence for an additional place shall be charged (paid) at the rates defined by point 25 of this Article, unless otherwise prescribed by the same point.

Where the licensee has obtained a licence (licences) by paying the annual state duty pursuant to point 25 of Article 19 of this Law, the duty paid pursuant to point 25 of Article 19 of this Law shall — from the day when the licence obtained on the basis of a state duty paid as prescribed by other points of Article 19 of this Law, is declared as invalid or is deemed as suspended by failure to pay the regular annual state duty prescribed within the specified time limit — be subject to surplus payment for any of these licences within a period of three days in the amount of 50 percent of the state duty rate prescribed by other points of Article 19 for issuing a licence to carry out the given activity. In case of failure to make the surplus payment within a period of three days, the licence (licences) issued on the ground of an annual state duty paid pursuant to point 25 of Article 19 of this Law shall be deemed as suspended from the day following the three-day period.

In case of renewal, for a period of full year (s), of a patent certificate, permission or licence deemed as object chargeable with an annual state duty by the authorised body, the annual state duty prescribed for issuing it shall continue to be paid by the general procedure for charging and paying annual state duty, as prescribed by this Law.

In case of renewal of a licence, patent certificate or permission solely for an incomplete year as prescribed by legislation, the annual state duty established by law shall be proportionally calculated and charged by the body responsible for charging a state duty, based on the number of months of the incomplete year of the renewed time limit of the licence (the validity period of a licence, patent certificate or permission may, as prescribed by the legislation, be renewed for an incomplete year exclusively for months).

(Article 19 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, supplemented, edited by HO-77 of 7 July 2000, supplemented by HO-99 of 11 October 2000, amended, supplemented by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-181 of 2 May 2001, edited by HO-283 of 14 December 2001, edited, amended by HO-321 of 3 April 2002, supplemented by HO-369-N of 29 May 2002, amended, edited by HO-482-N of 11 December 2002, supplemented by HO-523-N of 31 March 2003, edited by HO-5-N of 17 December 2003, supplemented by HO-51-N of 16 March 2004, edited, supplemented by HO-102-N of 11 June 2004, edited by HO-114-N of 28 September 2004, HO-170-N of 8 December 2004, supplemented by HO-99-N of 5 May 2005, edited, amended by HO-151-N of 24 November 2004, edited by HO-128-N of 25 May 2005, edited, supplemented by HO-139-N of 25 May 2005, supplemented by HO-47-N of 14 December 2004, amended by HO-198-N of 4 October 2005, edited by HO-11-N of 15 December 2005, HO-30-N of 16 December 2005, supplemented by HO-42-N of 23 March 2006, edited by HO-93-N of 23 May 2006, supplemented by HO-88-N of 23 May 2008, HO-248-N of 20 December 2006, edited by HO-198-N of 27 November 2006, supplemented by HO-219-N of 27 November 2006, HO-243-N of 5 December 2006, HO-151-N of 13 June 2006, HO-23-N of 25 December 2006, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007, edited, amended by HO-85-N of 22 February 2007, amended by HO-161-N of 9 April 2007, supplemented by HO-229-N of 29 November 2006, HO-238-N of 5 December 2006, amended by HO-52-N of 25 December 2006, supplemented, amended by HO-187-N of 9 April 2007, edited, supplemented by HO-205-N of 11 October 2007, supplemented by HO-266-N of 13 November 2007, amended by HO-71-N of 19 May 2008, supplemented, amended, edited by HO-141-N of 21 August 2008, supplemented by HO-157-N of 21 August 2008, edited by HO-178-N of 22 October 2008, amended by HO-74-N of 19 March 2009, supplemented by HO-190-N of 22 October 2008, supplemented by HO-108-N of 28 April 2009, HO-112-N of 28 April 2009, HO-2-N of 26 December 2008, edited, amended by HO-164-N of 10 July 2009, edited by HO-86-N of 20 May 2010, supplemented, amended by HO-13-N of 4 February 2010, edited by HO-121-N of 16 September 2010, amended, edited by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010, supplemented, amended by HO-283-N of 22 December 2010, amended by HO-201-N of 25 May 2011, edited by HO-231-N of 23 June 2011, HO-159-N of 11 May 2011, amended by HO-282-N of 28 November 2011, HO-302-N of 30 November 2011, supplemented by HO-326-N of 8 December 2011, amended by HO-338-N of 8 December 2011, edited, supplemented by HO-350-N of 8 December 2011, HO-232-N of 6 December 2012, amended by HO-49-N of 29 April 2013, edited by HO-88-N of 19 June 2013, amended, edited by HO-133-N of 23 December 2013, amended by HO-85-N of 19 June 2013, supplemented by HO-111-N of 21 June 2014, edited by HO-167-N of 20 November 2014, edited, supplemented by HO-171-N of 20 November 2014, supplemented by HO-196-N of 1 December 2014, amended by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015, supplemented by HO-204-N of 18 December 2015, HO-112-N of 23 June 2015, HO-10-N of 21 December 2015, HO-114-N of 6 October 2015, HO-20-N of 21 December 2015, HO-88-N of 17 May 2016, amended by HO-218-N of 23 December 2016, edited by HO-19-N of 16 December 2016, amended by HO-160-N of 25 October 2017, HO-171-N of 27 October 2017, HO-210-N of 17 November 2017, edited by HO-88-N of 31 May 2017, HO-265-N of 21 December 2017, HO-105-N of 8 February 2018, HO-163-N of 25 October 2017, edited, supplemented by HO-237-N of 6 December 2017, amended by HO-102-N of 7 February 2018, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019, edited by HO-38-N of 31 May 2019, edited by HO-128-N of 2 March 2018, amended by HO-289-N of 4 December 2019, supplemented by HO-154-N of 6 March 2020, edited by HO-181-N of 25 March 2020, supplemented by HO-272-N of 6 May 2020, supplemented, amended by HO-279-N of 3 June 2021, supplemented by HO-34-N of 19 January 2021, HO-50-N of 20 January 2021, HO-226-N of 27 May 2021, supplemented, amended by HO-378-N of 10 December 2021, amended by HO-294-N of 30 June 2021, supplemented by HO-10-N of 18 January 2022, edited by HO-306-N of 06 July 2022, edited and supplemented by HO-153-N of 3 May 2023, supplemented by HO-19-N of 17 January 2023, edited by HO-432-N of 16 November 2022, supplemented by HO-299-N of 3 October 2023, HO-258-N of 13 July 2023)

(Law HO-19-N of 16 December 2016 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-69-N of 25 June 2019 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-432-N of 16 November 2022 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-258-N of 13 July 2023 has a transitional provision)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-165-N of 11 April 2024 shall enter into force from 1 July 2025)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-254-N of 22 May 2024 shall enter into force from 1 July 2025)

(Article with regard to amendment to Law HO-266-N of 12 June 2024 shall enter into force the day the Law “On regulation of gambling activities” is fully put into operation)

 

Article 19.1

State duty rates for issuing and renewing licences and permissions provided for by the Law “On regulation of weapon circulation”

(title edited by HO-379-N of 5 October 2022)

 

Licences issued to legal persons

1. For organising the production of civil and service weapon:

(a) for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

2. For organising the repair of civil and service weapon:

(a) for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

3. For trading in civil and service weapon:

(a) for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

4. For launching a shooting gallery:

(a) open shooting gallery for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(b) a semi-closed shooting gallery for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(c) a closed shooting gallery for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

Permissions issued to legal persons

5. For acquiring each unit of weapon (for a period of 6 months) :

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

6. (part repealed by HO-43-N of 16 January 2024)

 

7. For acquiring the main components of firearm (for a period of 6 months):

in the amount of the base duty

7.1. For import, export, transit transportation of weapon, main constituent parts, bullets of firearm (for a period of 6 months):

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

8. For permissions for making weapon sets:

(a) for a period of 10 years:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for 10 years:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

9. For exhibition of the collection of weapons:

(a) for a period of 6 months:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for a period of 6 months:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

10. For permission of keeping and using civil and service weapon and, in certain cases, for keeping combat weapon:

(a) for a period of 10 years:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for a period of 10 years:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

11. For carrying, keeping and carrying weapons in the course of performing service duties (for a period of 5 years or for renewal for a period of 5 years):

 

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

Permissions issued to natural persons

12. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia, for acquisition of each unit of civil and service weapon (for a period of 6 months):

(a) for a gas spray weapon:

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

(b) for smooth-bore long barrelled firearm or pneumatic weapon with a muzzle energy of more than 7,5 joule:

in the amount of four-fold of the base duty

(c) for rifled barrel or integrated firearm:

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

(d) for acquiring a service weapon:

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

12.1. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for acquiring main constituent parts of firearm (for a period of 6 months):

 

in the amount of the base duty

13. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for collecting weapons:

(a) for a period of 10 years:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for a period of 10 years:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

14. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for exhibiting a collection of weapons:

(a) for a period of 6 months:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for a period of 6 months:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

15. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for keeping and carrying a gas spray weapon (for an indefinite period)

 

in the amount of eight-fold of the base duty

16. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for keeping and carrying a smooth-bore long barrelled firearm (for a period of 10 years or for renewal for a period of 10 years):

 

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

17. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for keeping and carrying firearm with rifled barrel or integrated firearm (for a period of 10 years or for renewal for a period of 10 years):

 

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

18. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for keeping and carrying a pneumatic weapon (for a period of 10 years or for renewal for a period of 10 years):

 

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

19. To citizens of the Republic of Armenia for keeping and carrying a service weapon (for a period of 10 years or for renewal for a period of 10 years):

 

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

20. For importing and exporting weapon, the main constituent parts, bullets of firearm ( for a period of 6 months or for renewal for a period of 6 months):

 

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

21. In case of succession of a weapon received as a reward and unsuitable for shooting (dummy round) — permission for keeping for an indefinite time period:

 

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

22. To foreign nationals, for acquisition of civil weapons, the main constituent parts and bullets of firearm in the Republic of Armenia (for a period of 5 days):

(a) for each unit of throwing or cold weapon:

in the amount of the base duty

(b) for each unit of gas spray weapon:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(c) for each unit of smooth-bore long-barrelled firearm or pneumatic weapon with a muzzle energy of more than 7,5 joule:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(d) for each unit of firearm with long-barrelled or integrated firearm:

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

(e) for acquiring a batch of weapons consisting of 100 bullets:

in the amount of the base duty

(f) for acquiring main constituting parts of firearm:

in the amount of the base duty

23. To foreign nationals for permission for export of weapon issued by the Republic of Armenia as a reward for a period of 2 months:

 

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

24. For reformulation and provision of a duplicate copy of licences and permissions specified in this Article:

 

in the amount of 50 percent of the rate defined for issuing the given type of licence or permission, but not more than 12-fold of the base duty

25. For theoretical and practical examinations of knowledge of weapons and safety rules:

 

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

(Article 19.1 supplemented by HO-181 of 2 May 2001, edited by HO-117-N of 22 February 2007, edited by HO-379-N of 5 October 2022, supplemented, edited by HO-269-N of 13 July 2023, amended by HO-43-N of 16 January 2024)

(Law HO-379-N of 5 October 2022 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 19.2.

State duty rates for issue of licences in tourism sector and for qualification of objects of hotel industry

1. (part repealed by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010)

2. For qualification of objects of hotel industry (in accordance with the established standards), except for qualifications issued by associations of persons delivering touristic services:

 

(a) for each star of a hotel, a motel rated with up to three stars — annually:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

(b) for each star of a hotel, a motel rated with four stars — annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

(c) for each star of a hotel, a motel rated with five stars — annually:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

(c.1) for hotel “Deluxe” rated with five stars — annually:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

(d) for each star of a hotel-type facility, health resort— annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(e) with regard to rest camp and specialised camp or house, boarding house, tourist, youth, camp settlement (complex):

 

for category I – annually:


for category II – annually:


for category III – annually:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(f) with regard to a tourist house:

 

for category I – annually:


for category II – annually:


for category III – annually:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

3. For acquisition of the right to engage in the activity subject to notification in the field of tourism, the state duty shall be levied at the following rates:

 

(1) For notification of activities of tour operators, travel agents, guides and escorts:

a. for notification of implementing activities of a tour operator — annually:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

b. for notification of implementing activities of a travel agent — annually:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

c. for notification of implementing activities of a guide — annually:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

d. for notification of implementing activities of an escort — annually:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

(2) for notification of the activities of persons delivering hotel services:

e. for delivering hotel services at a hotel — annually:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

f. for delivering hotel services at an aparthotel — annually:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

g. for delivering hotel services at a health resort — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

h. for delivering hotel services at a motel — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

i. for delivering hotel services at a hostel — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

j. for delivering hotel services at specialised camps or houses — annually:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

k. for delivering hotel services at rest house (boarding house) — annually:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

l. for delivering hotel services at camping sites (camping) — annually:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

m. for delivering hotel services at a guest house — annually:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

n. for delivering hotel services at a tourist settlement (B&B) — annually:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

4. For carrying out the same type of activity subject to notification provided for by sub-points (a) and (b) of point 1 and point 2 of part 3 of this Article in more than one place, the state duty shall be levied for each place.

5. For qualification of tourist buses, tourist centre management organisations, tourist information centres, tourist experiences, guides and escorts the state duty shall be levied at the following rates:

 

(1) for qualification of tourist buses, tourist centre management organisations, tourist information centres, tourist experiences, guides and escorts:

a. for qualification of one tourist bus — annually

- in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

b

-

c. for qualification of tour guide — annually

- in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

d. for qualification of conductor— annually

- in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

e.

-

f.

-

(Article 19.2 supplemented by HO-108-N of 28 April 2009, amended by HO-242-N of 8 December 2010, supplemented by HO-14-N of 26 February 2013, HO-7-N of 22 December 2023)

(Sub-points (b), (e) and (f) of point 1 of part 5 of the Article shall, with regard to the amendment to Article 1 of the Law HO-7-N of 22 December 2023, enter into force from 30 June 2025)

(Law HO-7-N of 22 December 2023 has a final part and transitional provisions)

 

Article 19.3.

State duty rates for issue and renewal of licences for production, import, export and carriage in transit of products of military significance and for mediatory activities related to trade in products of military significance

(title edited by HO-379-N of 5 October 2022)

 

1. Issuing a licence for organisation of production of products of military significance:

 

(a) for an indefinite tine period:

in the amount of 3000-fold of the base duty

2. For export and import of products of military significance:

 

(a) for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

3. For carriage in transit of products of military significance:

 

(a) for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

4. For carrying out mediatory activities related to trade in products of military significance:

 

(a) for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

(b) for renewal for an indefinite time period:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

(Article 19.3 supplemented by HO-167-N of 17 September 2009, edited by HO-379-N of 5 October 2022)

(Law HO-379-N of 5 October 2022 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 19.4.

State duty rates for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) of state-owned subsoil and mineral resources

(1) for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) of each deposit of noble, nonferrous and rare metals — annually:

in the amount of 10000-fold of the base duty

(2) for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) of each deposit of fuel power materials — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(3) for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) of each deposit of materials used in production of construction, among them coating and construction stones, fillers and ballasting materials — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(4) for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) of each deposit of coloured stones, except for obsidian — annually:

in the amount of 10000-fold of the base duty

4.1. for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) of each deposit of obsidian — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(5) for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) of each deposit of materials of metal, chemical, consumer goods industries and of other industrial branches — annually:

in the amount of 10000-fold of the base duty

(6) with regard to each deposit or mine of mineral waters:

 

- for issuing a permission of use (exploitation) for industrial (bottling) purposes — annually:

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

- for issuing a permission of use (exploitation) for industrial purposes (for obtaining carbonic acid) — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

- for issuing a permission for use (exploitation) for medical (recreational) purposes — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(7) for issuing a permission for use of surface waters, renewal of a permission, reformulation of a permission:

 

from natural persons:

in the amount of the 25-fold of the base duty

from legal persons:

in the amount of 75-fold of the of the base duty

(7.1) issue of the permission for the use of fresh groundwaters:

 

from natural persons:

in the amount of the 95-fold of the base duty

from legal persons:

in the amount of 145-fold of the of the base duty

(7.2) for renewal of the permission, reformulation of the permission for the use of fresh groundwaters:

 

from natural persons:

in the amount of the 25-fold of the base duty

from legal persons:

in the amount of 75-fold of the of the base duty

(8) (point repealed by HO-112-N of 23 June 2015)

(9) for issuing a permission of geological survey for extraction of mineral resources — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(10) for issuing a one-off permission for non-metallic minerals mining — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(11) for issuing a permission for non-metallic minerals mining for construction or operation of underground storage facilities that are objects of great importance — annually:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(Article 19.4 supplemented by HO-282-N of 28 November 2011, HO-255-N of 19 December 2012, amended by HO-112-N of 23 June 2015, supplemented by HO-78-N of 12 May 2016, amended by HO-123-N of 29 June 2016, supplemented by HO-257-N of 13 November 2019, edited and supplemented by HO-321-N of 07 July 2022)

(Law HO-321-N of 7 July 2022 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 19.5.

State duty rates for issuing and renewal of a licence for carrying out private guarding activity

(1) for carrying out private guarding activity:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(2) for reformulation or issue of a duplicate copy of the licence for carrying out private guarding activity:

in the amount of 10 percent of the prescribed rate

(Article 19.5 supplemented by HO-9-N of 9 February 2012)

 

Article 19.6.

State duty rates for issuing licences or permissions or certificates (or duplicate copies thereof) for export and (or) import of products provided for by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On trade and services”

1. For issuing licences or permissions or certificates (or duplicate copies thereof) for importing from third countries and (or) exporting to third countries products subject to restrictions in the sphere of foreign trade within the scope of the Eurasian Economic Union:

in the amount of the base duty, unless other rate is provided for by this Law

2. For issuing an import licence for each up to 100 tonnes of cement classified under code 2523 of the “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier (except for codes classified under headings 2523210000, 2523100000) under the customs procedures “Release for internal consumption”, “Reprocessing in the customs territory” and “Reprocessing for internal consumption” :

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

3. (part repealed by HO-359-N of 5 October 2022)

 

4. (part repealed by HO-150-N of 15 June 2022)

 

5. (part repealed by HO-150-N of 15 June 2022)

 

6. (part repealed by HO-150-N of 15 June 2022)

 

7. “For issuing export licences or permissions or certificates for each tonne of goods classified under code 7206 of “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier, except for the EAEU countries

-in the amount of 110-fold of the base duty

8. “For issuing export licences or permissions or certificates for each tonne of goods classified under code 7207 of “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier, except for the EAEU countries

-in the amount of 110-fold of the base duty

9. “For issuing export licences or permissions or certificates for each tonne of goods classified under code 7224 of “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier, except for the EAEU countries

-in the amount of 110-fold of the base duty

10. “For issuing export licences or permissions or certificates for each tonne of goods classified under code 7403 of “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier, except for the EAEU countries

-in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

11. For issuing export licences or permissions or certificates for each tonne of goods classified under codes 7601, 7603 of “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier, except for the EAEU countries

-in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

12. For issuing export licences or permits or certificates for each kilogram of goods classified under code 7108 of the “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier (except for alloys and concentrates containing gold originating in the Republic of Armenia), except for export (transfer) to EAEU countries and goods exported and subsequently imported under the customs procedure “Outward processing” :

in the amount of 180-fold of the base duty

13. For issuing export licences or permits or certificates for each kilogram of platinum goods classified under code 7110 of the “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier (except for alloys and concentrates containing platinum originating in the Republic of Armenia), except for export (transfer) to EAEU countries and goods exported and subsequently imported under the customs procedure “Outward processing” :

in the amount of 90-fold of the base duty

14. For issuing export licences or permits or certificates for each kilogram of palladium goods classified under code 7110 of the “Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity” (CNF EA) classifier (except for alloys and concentrates containing palladium originating in the Republic of Armenia), except for export (transfer) to EAEU countries and goods exported and subsequently imported under the customs procedure “Outward processing” :

in the amount of 105-fold of the base duty

(Article 19.6 supplemented by HO-79-N of 12 May 2016, HO-243-N of 26 May 2021, edited by HO-310-N of 15 July 2021, edited and amended by HO-359-N of 5 October 2022, amended by HO-150-N of 15 June 2022, supplemented by HO-146-N of 14 April 2024,HO-85-N OF 7 February 2024)

(Law HO-243-N of 26 May 2021 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-310-N of 15 July 2021 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 19.7.

State duty rates for issuing a licence for the operation of an intra-urban route by organizations and individual entrepreneurs, for organising non-regular passenger transportation by light passenger cars, as well as for carrying out passenger transportation by passenger-taxi cars by organizations, individual entrepreneurs and natural persons

(title edited by HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

 

1. For issuing a licence for the operation of intra-urban route or organising passenger transportation by buses (minivans) via the intra-urban route by organisations and individual entrepreneurs — monthly:

 

in the case of operation by buses:

in the amount of the product of seating capacity for operation of buses and 1.8-fold of the base duty

in the case of operation by minivans:

in the amount of the product of seating capacity for operation of minivans and 2.3-fold of the base duty

2. For the purpose of issuing a licence for implementing non-regular passenger transportation by light passenger cars within the territory of the Republic of Armenia, as well as implementing passenger transportation by passenger-taxi cars within the territory of the Republic of Armenia by organisations, individual entrepreneurs and natural persons, the state duty shall be established by the following amounts of the total value of each transportation:

 

in case of cash payments:

in case of non-cash payments

-

in the amount of 2 percent, from 1 September 2024:

in the amount of 1.5 percent, from 1 September 2024

in the amount of 3.5 percent, from 1 January 2025:

in the amount of 2.5 percent, from 1 January 2025

in the amount of 5 percent, from 1 January 2026:

in the amount of 4 percent, from 1 January 2026

 

2.1. In case the passenger transportation is carried out by an order received through the passenger transportation service via electronic platform, the state duty for each passenger transportation in the amount specified in part 2 of this Article shall be collected and paid to the State Budget by the organisation or individual entrepreneur providing a passenger transportation service via the electronic platform.

3. Within the meaning of application of this Article:

(1) The motor vehicle, the number of seats whereof, except for the driver's seat, does not exceed seventeen, shall be deemed as a bus;

(2) The motor vehicle having from nine to seventeen seats (excluding the driver's seat) shall be deemed as a minivan;

(3) concepts used in part 2 of this Article shall be applied by the meaning and significance prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On automobile road transport”;

(4) (point repealed by HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

(5) (point repealed by HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

4. The following coefficients shall apply with regard to the route to calculate the state duty for issuing a licence for operation of intra-urban route by organisations or individual entrepreneurs:

(1) in the city of Yerevan — 1.0;

(2) in other cities — 0.5;

5. (part repealed by HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

6. The licences for operating the inter-urban routes prescribed by this Article or prescribed by part 2 of this Article shall be issued by tax authority, exclusively through electronic means. In cases prescribed by part 2 of this Article, the natural persons carrying out passenger transportation shall be record-registered in the tax authority as prescribed by the Tax Code of the Republic of Armenia.

7. To obtain the licences prescribed by this Article the organisations and individual entrepreneurs shall before the last day of the month preceding each month, inclusive, submit to the tax authority exclusively through electronic means an Announcement on carrying out activities on operation of inter-urban route (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the “Announcement”). In case of commencing the activity ab initio, the organisations and individual entrepreneurs shall submit the Announcement to the tax authority before the day preceding the day of carrying out the activity irrespective of whether or not that day is a working day. The form and procedure for completing the Announcement shall be prescribed by the tax authority.

7.1. The organisation or the individual entrepreneur providing the passenger transportation service through the electronic platform shall submit the Announcement on the state duty calculated, levied and subject to payment to the State Budget for the passenger transportation carried out according to the order placed through the electronic service via the electronic platform, and the organisations, individual entrepreneurs and natural persons — in order to obtain a licence for carrying out passenger transportation by passenger-taxi cars — shall submit the Announcement on carrying out that activity to the tax authority exclusively through electronic means before the 10th day of the month following each month, inclusive. The forms and procedure for completing the Announcements mentioned in this part shall be prescribed by the tax authority.

8. In the case of increase in the number of buses, minivans with regard to the given activities carried out by organisations or individual entrepreneurs having obtained the licence prescribed by part 1 of this Article for any month, a new Announcement shall be submitted to the tax authority before the day preceding the day of increase, inclusive, in the aggregate of values of the number of buses, minivans presented previously for the given month and the number of buses, minivans added. In the case of increase in the number of buses, minivans, a state duty shall be calculated with regard to added seats of buses, minivans or number of buses, minivans under the general procedure prescribed by this Article. The state duty paid for each month with regard to the licence shall not be subject to return.

9. In the cases prescribed by this Article, the organisation or individual entrepreneur having submitted the Announcement shall, before the starting day of the given month, inclusive (in the case the activity commences ab initio— on the day the activity has commenced), be granted a licence, in a form established by the tax authority, with regard to the type (types) of activity and month indicated in the Announcement. In the case prescribed by part 8 of this Article, a new licence shall be granted to the organisation or individual entrepreneur on the day of adding the number of buses, minivans in the new Announcement, inclusive, in the aggregate of the number of buses, minivans, mentioned in the previous licence and the number of added buses, minivans, for the period including the date of adding the buses, minivans until the end of the month.

10. A single licence shall be granted to each organisation or individual entrepreneur for each month with regard to each type of activity prescribed by this Article.

11. The number of buses or minivans operated for the purpose of servicing the given route during the given month shall serve as a basis for calculation of state duty for operation of inter-urban route defined by part 1 of this Article, except for reserve vehicles. Moreover, the number of buses or minivans used for the purpose of calculation of state duty may not be less than the number of buses or minivans required for servicing the given route (except for reserve vehicles).

12. Within the meaning of application of this Article, the passenger transportation carried out by routes starting in the territory of the Republic of Armenia and not ending in the territory of the Republic of Armenia or starting beyond the territory of the Republic of Armenia and ending in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, as well as exclusively own intra-production (in-house) passenger transportation by a light passenger vehicle, bus, or minivan shall not be deemed as passenger transportation by a light passenger vehicle, bus or minivan.

13. In case of malfunctioning of a bus while carrying out regular passenger transportation by buses as prescribed by law, the organisation or individual entrepreneur having received a licence may substitute it during that month with a bus having the same or less number of seats, by informing the tax authority about it in advance as prescribed by the Government. The provisions of this part shall not apply to the route operation activities in the city of Yerevan and with the city of Yerevan.

14. The state duty prescribed by part 1 of this Article shall be paid to the State Budget for each month before the last day preceding the given month, inclusive (in case of commencing the activity ab initio, the day preceding the date of commencing the activity), and in case of adding the number of buses, minivans, before the day preceding the day of adding the number of buses, minivans, inclusive.

15. The state duty prescribed by part 2 of this Article shall be paid to the State Budget for each month prior the 10th day of the month following the given month, inclusive.

(Article 19.7 supplemented by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019, supplemented, amended by HO-29-N of 20 January 2021, edited, amended and supplemented by HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

(Law HO-69-N of 25 June 2019 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 19.8.

The state duty rates for issuing a licence for organising by organisations or individual entrepreneurs of trade of food through coin and (or) banknote-operated machines, as well as for organising games through coin-operated machines (except for games of chance and casino activities)

1. For issuing a licence for organising, by organisations or individual entrepreneurs, of trade of food through coin and (or) banknote-operated machines, monthly:

 

In the city of Yerevan

In regional centres

In other cities

In bordering villages

In other places

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and the five-fold of the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and the four-fold of the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and three-fold of the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and two-fold of the base duty

 

2. For issuing a licence for organising games by organisations and individual entrepreneurs through coin-operated slot machines, monthly:

 

In the city of Yerevan

In the regional centres

In other cities

In bordering villages

In other places

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and the five-fold of the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and the four-fold of the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and the three-fold of the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and the base duty

In the amount of the product of the number of slot machines and two-fold of the base duty

 

3. Within the meaning of application of this Article:

(1) organising the sales of ready-made food (coffee, carbonated drinks and other food products) through coin-operated and (or) banknote-operated slot machines shall be deemed as an activity of organising the trade of food through coin and banknote-operated slot machines.

(2) the activity of organising games through coin-operated machines in entertainment, recreational and other places shall be deemed as an activity of organising games through coin-operated machines.

4. To calculate the state duty, the following coefficients shall apply for issuing a licence to organisations and individual entrepreneurs in the city of Yerevan for organising trade of food through coin-operated and (or) banknote-operated machines, as well as organising games through coin-operated machines (except for activities of games of chance and casinos):

(1) for the first and second zones — 1.4;

(2) for other zones — 1.05;

5. Division of the city of Yerevan to territorial zones shall be prescribed by the Government.

6. The licences to organisations and individual entrepreneurs for organising the trade of food through coin-operated and (or) banknote-operated machines prescribed by this Article, as well as for organising games through coin-operated machines (except for activities of games of chance and casinos) shall be issued by the tax authority, exclusively through electronic means.

7. To obtain the licences defined by this Article the organisations and individual entrepreneurs shall, before the last day of the month preceding each month, inclusive, submit to the tax authority exclusively through electronic means an Announcement on activities, to be carried out by organisations and individual entrepreneurs, of organising trade of food through coin-operated and (or) banknote operated machines or games through coin-operated machines (except for activities of games of chance and casinos) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as “Announcement”). In the case of commencing the activities ab initio the organisations and individual entrepreneurs shall submit the Announcement to the tax authority before the day preceding the day of carrying out the activities irrespective of whether or not that day is a working day or a non-working day. The form and the procedure for completion of that Announcement shall be defined by the tax authority.

8. In the event of adding for any month of machines by an organisation or an individual entrepreneur having received a licence with regard to the given activity, a new Announcement for the amount of the aggregate of the number of machines submitted previously for the given month and the number of added machines shall be submitted to the tax authority before the day preceding the day of adding the machines, inclusive. The state duty paid with regard to the licence for the given month shall not be subject to return.

9. In the cases prescribed by this Article, a licence in the form defined by the tax authority shall be issued to the organisation or individual entrepreneur having submitted an Announcement with regard to type (types) of activity and the month mentioned in the Announcement before the starting day of the given month inclusive (in the case of commencing the activity ab initio —on the day of commencing the activity). In the case prescribed by part 8 of this Article, a new licence shall be issued to the organisation or individual entrepreneur on the first day of the reporting period stated in the Announcement on adding the number of machines inclusive. In the case prescribed by this part a new licence shall be issued in the aggregate of the number of machines mentioned in the previous licence and the number of added machines for the period beginning from the date of addition of the machines until the end of that month.

10. One licence shall be issued to each organisation or individual entrepreneur with regard to each type of activity prescribed by this Article, for each month.

11. The state duty defined by this Article shall be paid to the State Budget for each month until the last day of the month preceding the given month inclusive (in case of commencing the activity ab initio — on the day preceding the day of commencing the activity), and in the case the number of machines is added — until the day preceding the day when the machines were added, inclusive.

12. The settlements defined by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On Administrative Territorial Division of the Republic of Armenia” shall serve as a basis for application of the monthly rate of state duty defined by parts 1 and 2 of this Article, except for bordering villages, the list whereof shall be defined by the Government.

(Article 19.8 supplemented by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019)

(Law HO-69-N of 25 June 2019 has a transitional provision.)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-266-N of 12 June 2024 shall enter into force from the day the Law “On regulation of gambling activities” is fully put into operation)

 

Article 19.9.

Rates of state duty for performing customs operations, customs escort, temporary storage of goods, filling in customs declarations on the basis of the application submitted by declarants, as well as for issuing preliminary decisions by customs authorities in the case prescribed by law

(title supplemented by HO-356-N of 14 September 2022)

 

1. The state duties for performing customs operations, customs escort, temporary storage of goods, filling in customs declarations on the basis of the application submitted by declarants, as well as for issuing preliminary decisions by customs authorities in the case prescribed by law shall be charged from persons provided for by Article 37 of the Law “On customs regulation”at the following rates:

 

(1) for carrying out customs formalities for goods and means of transportation transferred through the border of the Republic of Armenia, as well as currency and foreign currency transferred by the banks (except for inspection and record-registration of goods):

in the amount of 3.5-fold of the base duty

(2) for inspection and record-registration of goods, except for goods transported through pipelines and electric transmission lines:

 

a. for customs control of goods weighing up to one tonne and declared in a single customs declaration:

in the amount of the base duty

b. for customs control of each extra (or incomplete) tonne of goods weighing more than one tonne and declared in a single customs declaration:

in the amount of 0.3-fold of the base duty

c. for customs control of goods weighing up to one tonne and declared in a single customs declaration for exported goods in case of exporting excisable goods, having the status of EAEU product from the EAEU member states into the territory of the Republic of Armenia through the customs procedure “Release for domestic consumption” or exporting those goods by a resident organisation or an individual entrepreneur — having imported those goods — through the customs procedure “Export” or exporting from the territory of the Republic of Armenia into the territory of an EAEU member state:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

d. for customs control of each extra (or incomplete) tone of goods declared in a single customs declaration for exported goods and weighing more than one tone prescribed by sub-point (c) of this point:

in the amount of the base duty

(3) for customs control of consignment of goods transported within one month in the same direction on the basis of the same contract through pipelines and electric transmission lines:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

for each hundred km of customs escort of goods across the territory of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(5) for temporary storage by the customs authorities (except for point 5.1 of this part):

a. daily: for up to one tonne

b. for each extra (or incomplete) tonne of goods weighing more than one tonne:

in the amount of the base duty in the amount of 0.3-fold of the base duty

(5.1.) for temporary storage of each of the following goods by the customs authorities, daily, starting from the 4th day of temporary storage:

a. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8429:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

b. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8701:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

c. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8702:

in the amount of 7-fold of the base duty

d. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8703:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

e. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8704:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

f. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8705:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

g. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8709:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

h. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8711:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

i. goods classified under the heading CN FEA 8716:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(6) for customs control of means of transportation:

a. passenger cars with up to 10 seats:

b. other means of transportation:

in the amount of 2-fold of the base duty

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

(7) for each preliminary decision taken by a customs authority on classification of goods, methods of determining the customs value in accordance with the procedure established by the Customs Code of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Law “On customs regulation” and on the country of origin of goods:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(8) for delivery by the customs authority of a decision on classification of goods transported in several consignments not assembled or disassembled, including in an incomplete or unfinished state, in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Law “On customs regulation”:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(9) where a customs declaration is submitted in a paper-based form if the declarant is unable to submit an electronic copy of the customs declaration, for the formulation of the electronic text of the customs declaration by the customs authority in the electronic system of customs declaration:

in the amount of 3.5-fold of the base state duty

(10) for filling in the customs declaration based on application submitted by the declarant:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base state duty

2. A state duty in the amount of two-fold of rates established by this Article shall be charged for customs formalities or other individual operations related thereto carried out in places and at working hours not established by customs authorities.

3. A state duty in the two-fold of rates established by point 5 of part 1 of this Article shall be charged for temporary storage of goods requiring special storage conditions.

4.

(Article 19.9 supplemented by HO-230-N of 14 November 2019, supplemented and amended by HO-356-N of 14 September 2022, supplemented by HO-407-N of 11 December 2023, HO-17-N of 16 January 2024)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-290-N of 12 June 2024 shall enter into force from the 1st day of the 7th month following the month including the day of the official promulgation of the same law)

 

Article 19.10.

State duty rates for issuing a permit for the export of wild animals, their products, zoological collections or specific specimen from the territory of the Republic of Armenia and the import thereof to the territory of the Republic of Armenia

(1) for issuing a permit for the export of wild animals, their products, zoological collections or specific specimen from the territory of the Republic of Armenia and (or) the import thereof to the territory of the Republic of Armenia, except for the cases provided for in Article 19.6 of this Law:

in the amount of the base duty, if other rate is not established by this Law

(Article 19.10 supplemented by Law HO-77-N of 23 March 2022)

 

Article 19.11.

State duty rates for issuing a permit for keeping animals in captive and semi-captive conditions, including the ones registered in the Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia

(1) for issuing a permit for keeping wild animals in captive and semi-captive conditions, including the ones registered in the Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of the base duty

(Article 19.11 supplemented by HO-77-N of 23 March 2022)

 

Article 19.12.

State duty rates for issuing a permit for use of animals held in semi-captive conditions and registered in the Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia, starting from the second viable generation of animals

1) for issuing a permit for use of animals held in semi-captive conditions and registered in the Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia, starting from the second viable generation of animals:

in the amount of the base duty

(Article 19.2 supplemented by Law HO-77-N of 23 March 2022)

 

Article 19.13.

State duty rates for concluding a contract of use of fauna

1) for agricultural and industrial purposes:

2) for social purposes:

3) for purposes of organising nature protection, scientific and research, educational and reproduction:

4) for the purpose of use of wild animals registered in the Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of base duty

(Article 19.3 supplemented by Law HO-77-N of 23 March 2022)

 

Article 19.14.

Rates of state duty for obtaining the right to accept a bet by an online gambling and (or) betting terminal (online betting terminal) operators

1. The state duty for obtaining the right to accept a bet by an online gambling and (or) betting terminal (online betting terminal) operators shall be charged at the following rates:

for obtaining the right to accept a bet by an online gambling operator in the amount of each AMD 100 billion:

in the amount of 175 000-fold of the base duty

for obtaining the right to accept a bet by a betting terminal (online betting terminal) operator in the amount of each AMD 50 billion:

in the amount of 50 000-fold of the base duty

 

2. The state duty prescribed by this Article shall be paid within five days inclusive following the day when the thresholds provided for by this Article for the right to accept the bets are completed. The organisation having newly obtained the licence for online gambling and (or) lottery shall pay the state duty prescribed by this Article for the first time within 5 working days following the day of issuance of the relevant licence.

3. The state duty paid in the amount established by this Article for obtaining the right to accept a bet shall not be subject to refund in case of not using the obtained right.

(Article 19.14 supplemented by HO- 572-N of 16 December 2022)

(Law HO-572-N of 16 December 2022 has a final part and a transitional provision)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-266-N of 12 June 2024 shall enter into force from the day the Law “On regulation of gambling activities” is fully put into operation)

 

Article 20.

State duty rates for other services or operations

State duty for other services or operations shall be charged at the following rates:

1.

for granting a driving licence (exchange of a driving licence, granting a new driving licence instead of the lost one):

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

2.

(point repealed by HO-173-N of 15 November 2010)

3.

for granting a licence for driving air and water transportation means:

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

4.

for issuing a duplicate copy of the licence for driving air and water transportation means:

in the amount of 24-fold of the base duty

5.

for granting a licence for driving self-propelled agricultural machinery:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

6.

for issuing a duplicate copy of a licence for driving self-propelled agricultural machinery:

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

7.

for issuing a transit plate:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

8.

for conducting each examination for issuing a document (certificate) certifying the delivery of state monopoly services (activities) (save the exams for licensing medical and pharmaceutical activities, and professional activities in securities market and for qualification of patent attorneys) :

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

8.1.

for participating in the qualification exam for performing professional activity in securities market:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

9.

(point repealed by HO-502-N of 26 December 2002)

 

10.

for granting a certificate for conducting tests:

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

11.

for granting a certificate for conducting conformity certification:

in the amount of 24-fold of the base duty

12.

(point repealed by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006)

 

13.

(point repealed by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006)

 

14.

(point repealed by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006)

 

15.

for granting a certificate for export of forest products, except for export (transportation) to EAEU:

 
 

(a) for each motor vehicle or container:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

 

(b) for each wagon:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

15.1

for granting a certificate for export of ores classified under commodity codes 26 of CN FEA, except for export (transportation) to EAEU:

in the amount of 3% calculated based on the content of metal in the given quantity of ores being exported each time and the average international market price thereof

15.2.

for export of each ton of ferrous metal wastes and scrap, pipes made of ferrous metals and fittings thereof, ferrous metal constructions classified under 7201, 7204, 7303 00, 7304, 7305, 7306, 7307 and 7308 codes of CN FEA (and rails classified under 7302, utilized cast-iron classified under 7322, ferrous metal tiles and mills classified under 7325 and 7326 codes), except for export (transportation) to EAEU (the obligation of payment of state duty stipulated in this point shall not apply to the commodities classified under CN FEA codes, having passed customs clearance under customs procedures “Temporary import” and “Processing in customs territory” and subsequently being re-exported, as well as produced in the Republic of Armenia (except for goods classified under 7201, 7204 codes of CN FEA)) :

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

15.3.

for each ton of non-ferrous metal wastes and scrap classified under 7404 00, 7503 00, 7602 00, 7802 00 000 0, 7902 00 000 0, 8002 00 000 0, 8101 97 000 0, 8102 97 000 0, 8103 30 000 0, 8104 20 000 0, 8105 30 000 0, 8106, 8108 30 000 0, 8109 31 000 0, 8109 39 000 0, 8110 20 000 0, 8111 00 190 0, 8112 13 000 0, 8112 22 000 0, 8112 31 000 0, 8112 41 000 1, 8112 52 000 0, 8112 61 000 0, 8112 92 210, 8113 00 400 0 codes of CN FEA (except for commodities classified under CN FEA codes, having passed customs clearance under customs procedures “Temporary import” and “Processing in the customs territory” and subsequently being re-exported) except for export (transportation) to EAEU:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

16.

(point repealed by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006)

 

17.

(point repealed by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006)

 

18.

(point repealed by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006)

 

19.

(point repealed by HO-201-N of 27 November 2006)

 

20.

(point repealed by HO-42-N of 23 March 2006)

 

21.

(point repealed by HO-42-N of 23 March 2006)

 

22.

(point repealed by HO-42-N of 23 March 2006)

 

23.

(point repealed by HO-42-N of 23 March 2006)

 

24.

(point repealed by HO-42-N of 23 March 2006)

 

25.

(point repealed by HO-181 of 2 May 2001)

 

26.

Production of explosives and blasting equipment (except for substances and blasting equipment considered as products of military significance, products considered as products of military significance) :

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

26.1.

Import of explosives and blasting equipment (except for substances and blasting equipment considered as products of military significance, products considered as products of military significance) :

in the amount of 2500-fold of the base duty

26.2.

Trade in explosives and blasting equipment:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

26.3.

Storage of explosives and blasting equipment:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

26.4.

Transportation of explosives and blasting equipment:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

26.5.

Application of explosives and blasting equipment:

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

26.6.

Performing blasting activities:

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

27.

for granting a permission for acquisition of toxic, radioactive and isotopic materials by legal persons, for carriage and maintenance thereof:

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

28.

(point repealed by HO-107-N of 28 April 2009)

 

(a) from budgetary institutions:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

 

(b) from legal persons and natural persons:

in the amount of six-fold of the base duty

29.

for granting a permission to demolish a building and for construction:

in the amount of 18-fold of the base duty

30.

for exit of natural persons (air passengers) from the Republic of Armenia by air transport:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

31.

for permission to use the words “hay” [Armenian], “Hayastan” [Armenia], “haykakan” [of Armenian origin] and the translations thereof in distinguishing name of a trade name — annually:

in the amount of 600-fold of the base duty

32.

for providing, from the state uniform register of legal persons and state registers, complete information on entities kept in the state registry and posted on a website, as well as for issuing carbon copies of statutes of legal persons:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

32.1.

for providing of a separate decision on rejection of registration of trade name of the commercial organisation by the state registry:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

33.

given the exercise of powers of state authorities, for exchange, reformulation of a document (a certificate) certifying the delivery of services or performance of operations prescribed by this Law or issue of the duplicate copy of a lost certificate (except for the cases provided for by this Law) :

the two-fold of the rate established for issuance of the given document (certificate), but not more than ten-fold of the base duty

34.

for placing an Apostille (a certifying endorsement) on documents provided for by Article 1 of the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 On Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, or for legalisation of other documents:

in the amount of seven-fold of the base duty

35.

for gratuitous privatisation of state-owned apartments:

in the amount of the base duty

36.

for conducting state accreditation of secondary vocational and higher professional education institutions or granting an accreditation certificate:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

37.

for making amendments and (or) supplements to the state accreditation certificate granted to secondary vocational and higher professional education institutions:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

38.

for providing a duplicate copy of a lost state accreditation certificate to secondary vocational and higher professional education institutions:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

38.1.

for qualification exams for replenishing the list of candidates for judges:

in the amount of thirty-fold of the base duty

38.2

For verification of the application and the attached documents filed by the former judge to be included in the list of candidates for judges:

in the amount of twenty-fold of the base duty

38.3

For verification of the application and the attached documents filed for replenishing the list of judge candidates for promotion to be appointed to the position of a judge in Courts of Appeal:

in the amount of twenty-fold of the base duty

38.4

For verification of the application and the attached documents filed for replenishing the list of judge candidates for promotion to be appointed to the position of a judge in the Court of Cassation:

in the amount of twenty-fold of the base duty

39.

for conducting a qualification testing of candidates for notaries:

in the amount of twenty-fold of the base duty

40.

for conducting qualification testing of a translator of a notary:

in the amount of twenty-fold of the base duty

41.

for providing information pertaining to each legal act from the register of legal acts:

in the amount of fifty percent of the base duty

42.

for granting an individual permission for export of dual-use products and transfer of double-purpose information and results of intellectual activities:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

421.

for granting an accreditation certificate for carrying out calibration of measurement units, as well as certification of measurement methodologies in the fields subject to state metrological control:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

43.

for granting a general permission for export of dual-use products and transfer of double-purpose information and results of intellectual activities:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

43.1.

for issuing the duplicate copy of a document certifying the right of individual and general permission for export of dual-use products and transfer of double-purpose information and results of intellectual activities:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

44.

Regarding the digital tachograph:

 
 

(a) for issuing a driver’s card:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

(b) for issuing a company card:

in the amount of 70-fold of the base duty

 

(c) for issuing a workshop card:

in the amount of 70-fold of the base duty

44.

(point repealed by HO-421-N of 10 December 2021)

 

45.

for granting an permit for carriage of dangerous goods or deactivated receptacles by automobile transportation means:

in the amount of ten-fold of the base duty

46.

for granting a right to the carriers of goods of the Republic of Armenia for making unlimited number of trips between the member states of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport:

 
 

(a) for a period of 6 weeks:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

 

(b) for a period of 1 year:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

47.

for granting a right to the carriers of goods of the Republic of Armenia for performing a single carriage prescribed by international agreements on carriage by road:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

48.

for receiving a statement of personal accounts in a documented form by a tax authority more than once during the given calendar year:

in the amount of the base duty

49.

for giving to feed business operators an opinion on activities

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

49.1.

for state registration of food additives:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

50.

for issuing a certificate on proper industrial activity – annually:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

51.

for issuing a certificate on proper distribution – annually:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

52.

for issuing a certificate on import or export of medicines, medicinal substances, herbal raw material and pharmaceutical product being examined – annually:

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

52.1.

for providing (compliance) certificates for importing medical products:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

52.2.

for issuing a certificate on proper laboratory activities:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

52.3.

52.4.

for granting a permission for advertising medicines, medical products and therapeutic methods:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

53.

for carrying out one route of inter-state non-regular passenger transportation by means of transportation having 9-17 seats:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

 

to Georgia:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

 

to other states:

 
 

for carrying out one route by means of transportation having more than 17 seats:

 
 

to Georgia:

 
 

to other states:

 

54.

for carrying out one route, interstate non-regular passenger transportation from a state, having not concluded an international agreement regulating transport sector, to the Republic of Armenia by means of transportation record-registered in other states, and in the opposite direction:

 
 

for means of transportation having 9-17 seats:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

for means of transportation having more than 17 seats:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

55.

for qualification test of bankruptcy administrator:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

55.1

for participating in qualification test of licensed mediators:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

56.

for record-registration of bankruptcy administrator:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

57.

for service support through the special computer software provided for by Law “On bankruptcy” (for each year) :

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

58.

for granting an appraiser qualification certificate:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

59.

for issuing a professional training certificate of a driver for transportation of dangerous goods:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

60.

for taking an examination for qualification for transportation of dangerous goods:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

61.

for issuing a professional training certificate for a safety specialist for transportation of dangerous goods:

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

62.

for issuing a certificate for approving a vehicle transporting dangerous goods:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

63.

for conducting a professional qualification examination for a transportation manager:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

64.

for issuing a professional qualification certificate to a transportation manager:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

65.

for conducting a professional qualification examination for drivers holding category “C”, “D”, “CE”, “DE”, “C1E” and “D1E” driving licence:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

66.

for issuing a professional qualification certificate for drivers holding category “C”, “D”, “CE”, “DE”, “C1E” and “D1E” driving licence:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

67.

for conducting qualification examination for road safety auditors and a tunnel safety officer:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

68.

for issuing a qualification certificate for road safety auditors and a tunnel safety officer:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

69.

for reformulating or obtaining the duplicate copy of the qualification certificate for cartographic, land construction, measurement and recording activities:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

70.

for reformulating or obtaining the duplicate copy of the qualification certificate for geodetic and surveying activities:

in the amount of three-fold of the base duty

(Article 20 amended, edited, supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, supplemented by HO-67 of 30 May 2000, HO-99 of 11 October 2000, amended, supplemented, edited by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, amended by HO-181 of 2 May 2001, edited, supplemented by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002, supplemented by HO-446-N of 4 November 2002, amended by HO-502-N of 26 December 2002, supplemented by HO-10-N of 24 September 2003, amended, supplemented by HO-84-N of 26 May 2004, amended by HO-42-N of 23 March 2006, HO-201-N of 27 November 2006, HO-107-N of 28 April 2009, edited by HO-18-N of 8 April 2008, edited, supplemented by HO-44-N of 8 April 2010, amended by HO-173-N of 15 November 2010, amended, supplemented by HO-302-N of 30 November 2011, supplemented by HO-338-N of 8 December 2011, edited by HO-131-N of 19 March 2012, supplemented by HO-219-N of 12 November 2012, HO-253-N of 19 December 2012, HO-91-N of 20 June 2013, HO-142-N of 21 June 2014, amended, supplemented by HO-123-N of 29 June 2016, supplemented by HO-88-N of 17 May 2016, HO-19-N of 16 December 2016, edited, amended by HO-125-N of 9 July 2019, edited by HO-280-N of 9 December 2019, supplemented by HO-299-N of 12 December 2019, HO-209-N of 25 March 2020, amended by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021, amended, supplemented by HO-421-N of 10 December 2021, supplemented by HO-437-N of 16 November 2022, HO-306-N of 6 July 2022, supplemented and edited by HO-28-N of 10 February 2023, supplemented by HO-348-N of 25 October 2023, HO-299-N of 3 October 2023, edited, supplemented by HO-258-N of 13 July 2023, amended, supplemented by HO-156-N of 11 April 2024, supplemented by HO-212-N of 12 April 2024, HO-300-N of 12 June 2024, HO-315-N of 12 July 2024)

(Law HO-28-N of 10 February 2023 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-258-N of 13 July 2023 has a transitional provision)

(Article shall, with regard to the amendment to Law HO-463-N of 15 November 2024, enter into force after eight months following the official promulgation of the same Law)

 

Article 20.1.

State duty rates for obtaining the right to perform activities subject to notification in cases prescribed by law

 

1. State duty for obtaining the right to perform activities subject to notification shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) (point repealed by HO-258-N of 13 July 2023)

 

(2) (point repealed by HO-164 of 3 May 2023)

(3) (point repealed by HO-164 of 3 May 2023)

 

(4) (point repealed by HO-164 of 3 May 2023)

 

(5) for obtaining the right to produce ethyl spirit classified under 2207 and 2208 codes of Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity (CN FEA) classifier (except for types of activities indicated in points 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7 and 7.1 of this table and other spirit drinks containing up to 22 percent spirit) :

in the amount of 15000-fold of the base duty

(5.1) for obtaining the right to produce the cognac and brandy classified under 220820 code of Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity (CN FEA) classifier and to produce cognac and brandy spirit classified under 220820890 code of CN FEA and to sell up to 100 thousand litres (calculated for 100-percent spirit) thereof:

For each litre of product sold by the manufacturer in the quantity exceeding 100 thousand litres of cognac and brandy spirit classified under 220820890 code of CN FEA classifier (calculated for 100-percent spirit) —additional:

in the amount of 10000-fold of the annual base duty

AMD 100

(5.2) Production of cognac, brandy and cognac and brandy spirit classified under code 220820 of the Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity (CNF EA) classifier, without the right to sales:

in the amount of 50-fold of the annual base duty

(5.3) for obtaining the right to produce whiskies classified under 220830 code, rum classified under 220840 code, gin classified under 220850 code of Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity (CN FEA) classifier, as well as other alcoholature (anise, aperative, balsam, rakia, etc.) and other spirit drinks containing more than 22 percent spirit (except for vodkas from raw grape, fruits, berries and honey) :

in the amount of 3000-fold of the annual base duty

6) (point repealed by HO-164-N of 3 May 2023)

(7) for obtaining the right to produce alcoholic drinks containing 40 per cent and more of spirit distilled only from honey, fruits and berries (except for grape), classified under 2208 code of Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity (CN FEA) classifier:

in the amount of 50-fold of the annual base duty

(7.1) for obtaining the right to produce grape vodkas and distillates of grape vodka:

in the amount of 50-fold of the annual base duty

(8) (point repealed by HO-164-N of 3 May 2023)

(9) (point repealed by HO-164-N of 3 May 2023)

(10) for obtaining the right to set up the place for trade:

 

a. in the city of Yerevan:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the annual base duty

b. in marz centres:

in the amount of 500-fold of the annual base duty

c. outside the city of Yerevan and marz centres:

in the amount of 300-fold of the annual base duty

(11) for obtaining the right to import vodka classified under 2208 code of Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity (CN FEA) classifier:

in the amount of 15000-fold of the annual base duty

(11.1) for obtaining the right to import from states not considered to be EAEU members, as well as to import from EAEU member states, including import for the purpose of processing, up to 100 thousand litres (calculated for 100-percent spirit) of cognac and brandy spirits classified under 220820 code of Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity (CN FEA) classifier and cognac and brandy spirits classified under 220820890 code of CN

in the amount of 10000-fold of the base duty

FEA classifier (as per 100 thousand litres) under the customs procedures “Release for domestic consumption”, “Processing in customs territory” and “Processing for domestic consumption”:

For each litre of product classified under 220820890 code of CN FEA classifier imported by the importer in the quantity exceeding 100 thousand litres from states not considered to be EAEU members, as well as from EAEU member states, including for the purpose of processing, under customs procedures “Release for domestic consumption”, “Processing in the customs territory” and “Processing for domestic consumption” — additional:

AMD 100

(12) for obtaining the right to assay and hallmark items made from precious metals:

in the amount of 200-fold of the annual base duty

(13) for obtaining the right to carry out activities of genetic engineering:

in the amount of 50-fold of the annual base duty

(13) Trade in, import, export and transportation of natural diamonds, whether processed or not, but not mounted or set, classified under codes 710210000, 710221000, 710231000 of the Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity (CNF EA) classifier:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the annual base duty

(14) for obtaining the right to carry out drilling activities for the use of underground fresh waters:

in the amount of 200-fold of the annual base duty

(15) (sub-point repealed by HO-59-N of 3 June 2019)

 

(16) for obtaining the right to carry out activities of water use and drainage, as well as the calculation of permissible marginal discharge rates, required for the issuance of water use permits:

 in the amount of 200-fold of the annual base duty

17) for obtaining the right of trust management of shares of limited liability companies or additional liability companies:

in the amount of 50-fold of the annual base duty

(18) for delivery of professional training service for transportation managers — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(19) for delivery of professional training service for drivers involved in interstate haulage operations via vehicles of common use:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(20) for obtaining the right to deliver passenger transportation service through an electronic platform:

 

21.

a.

b.

in the amount of 1000-fold of the annual base duty

2. Except for the types of activities subject to notification specified in sub-points 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7, 7.1 and 10 of point 1 of Article 20.1 of this Law, for obtaining the right to implement the same type of activity that is also subject to notification in each of more than one places — in the amount of fifty percent of the prescribed state duty rate.

2.1. Where the legal or natural persons or the individual entrepreneurs simultaneously carry out the types of activities mentioned in points 1, 1.1 and 1.4 or 8 and 8.1 of “4.OTHER SECTORS OF ACTIVITIES” section of the table of part 2 of Article 22 of Law of the Republic of Armenia “On notification on implementation of activities”, they shall pay an annual state duty in the amount of 15000-fold of the base duty prescribed by sub-points 5 or 11 of point 1 of this Article for obtaining the right to carry out those types of activities, moreover, in the case where the legal or natural person or individual entrepreneur:

a. has obtained the right to carry out the types of activities mentioned in points 1 or 8 of “4.OTHER SECTORS OF ACTIVITIES” section of the table of part 2 of Article 22 of Law of the Republic of Armenia “On notification on implementation of activities” and has submitted an additional notification on concurrent engagement in the types of activities mentioned in points 1.1 or 1.4 or 8.1, the right to engage in types of activities of points 1.1 or 1.4 or 8.1 is valid until the start of the next period for payment of state duty for engaging in the types of activity of point 1 or 8;

b. has obtained the right to carry out the types of activities mentioned in points 1.1 and 8.1 of “4. OTHER SECTORS OF ACTIVITIES” section of the table of part 2 of Article 22 of Law of the Republic of Armenia “On notification on implementation of activities” and has submitted an additional notification on concurrent engagement in the types of activities mentioned in points 1 or 8, they shall pay an additional state duty in the amount of 5000-fold of the annual base duty, and the right to engage in the types of activities mentioned in point 1 or point 8 shall be valid until the start of the next period for payment of state duty for engaging in the types of activity of point 1.1 or 8.1;

c. has obtained a right to carry out the types of activities mentioned in point 1.4 of “4.OTHER SECTORS OF ACTIVITIES” section of the table of part 2 of Article 22 of Law of the Republic of Armenia “On notification on implementation of activities” and has submitted an additional notification on concurrent engagement in the types of activities mentioned in points 1 and 1.1, they shall pay an additional state duty in the amount of 12000-fold of the annual base duty, and the right to engage in the types of activities mentioned in point 1 or point 1.1 shall be valid until the start of the next period for payment of state duty for engaging in the types of activity of point 1.4.

3. For each piece of information provided in hard copy to other persons from the electronic register of persons implementing activities subject to notification — in the amount of three-fold of the base duty.

4. Where pursuant to the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On notification on implementation of activities”, a person having submitted a notification is obliged to implement the activity subject to notification only in the place specified in the notification, in case of simultaneous submission of notifications regarding the implementation of the same activity subject to notification in more than one place, the person having submitted notifications may independently choose the notification in which the annual state duties established by this Law for obtaining the right to implement activity in the specified place are to be charged (paid) by the rates established by point 2 of this Article. In case the person having submitted the notification fails to make a decision independently and (or) fails to inform the authorised body established by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On notification on implementation of activities”, the authorised body shall determine upon its discretion the place in which the annual state duty established by this Law for obtaining the right to implement the same activity is to be charged (paid) at the rates established by point 2 of this Article.

5. Where the person implementing activity subject to notification has obtained the right to perform activity subject to notification by paying the annual state duty pursuant to part 2 of this Article, the duty paid pursuant to part 2 of this Article shall — from the day when the right of persons, who implement activities subject to notification, to perform the activity subject to notification, is terminated upon the ground of a state duty paid as prescribed by other points of this Law for obtaining the right to perform activity subject to notification or is deemed suspended by failure to pay the regular annual state duty prescribed within the specified time limit — be subject to surplus payment for anyone to obtain the right to perform activity subject to notification, within a period of three days, in the amount of 50 percent of the state duty rate prescribed by other points of this Law for obtaining the right to perform the given activity. In case of failure to make the surplus payment within a period of three days, the right(s) of persons — who implement activities subject to notification, on the ground of an annual state duty paid pursuant to part 2 of this Article — to perform activities subject to notification shall be considered suspended from the day following the three-day period.

(Article 20.1 supplemented by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015, edited, supplemented by HO-30-N of 19 February 2016, supplemented by HO-160-N of 25 October 2017, HO-171-N of 27 October 2017, HO-210-N of 17 November 2017, edited by HO-163-N of 25 October 2017, supplemented, amended by HO-359-N of 13 June 2018, supplemented, amended by HO-59-N of 3 June 2019, HO-419-N 16 September 2020, supplemented by HO-545-N of 7 December 2022, amended , edited and supplemented by HO-164-N of 3 May 2023, supplemented by HO-321-N of 7 July 2022, edited, supplemented by HO-164-N of 3 May 2023, amended by HO-258-N of 13 July 2023, supplemented by Ho-348-N of 25 October 2023, HO-393-N of 8 December 2023, HO-234-N of 22 May 2024)

(Law HO-419-N of 16 September 2020 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-321-N of 7 July 2022 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-164-N of 3 May 2023 has a final part and transitional provisions)

(Law HO-258-N of 13 July 2023 has a transitional provision)

(Article shall, with regard to the amendment to Law HO-463-N of 15 November 2024, enter into force after eight months following the official promulgation of the same Law)

 

Article 20.2.

Rates of state duty in case of alienation by natural person of a car belonging thereto with the right of ownership

1. In case of alienation by natural persons of a car belonging thereto with the right of ownership to other natural persons, the state duty for registration of termination of the right of ownership over the vehicle shall be charged in the following amounts: AMD 150 for each horsepower of the car engine. Where the engine power is expressed in kilowatts, a coefficient of 1.36 shall be applied to the relevant power:

(Article 20.2 supplemented by HO-596-N of 23 December 2022)

 

Article 20.3.

Rates of state duty for expert examinations in the field of regulation of circulation of medicines and medical products, keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure and accepting the notification of the change not requiring an expert examination

1. State duty for expert examinations conducted for the purpose of registration, re-registration of medicines in the Republic of Armenia, extending the validity period for the certificate, adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the rules of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter referred to as “the EAEU”) or for mutual recognition and for expert examination of post-registration changes, as well as for repeated expert examination conducted for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted, keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure and accepting the notification of the change not requiring an expert examination, shall be charged by the following rates:

 

(1) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of a reproduced (generic) medicine or of hybrid medicine not differing from the original by its active ingredient(s), dosage and pharmaceutical form:

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1100-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through simplified procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period for the certificate:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 2100-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in the manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for mutual recognition thereof:

in the amount of 1200-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 900-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of re-registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

(2) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of a reproduced medicine of well-established medical use:

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration for use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in a manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of re-registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

e. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

f. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

(3) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of an original medicine, immunological medicine or new combination:

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 2400-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period of the certificate:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 3500-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in a manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 2500-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for mutual recognition thereof:

in the amount of 2100-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 1400-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of re-registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 1100-fold of the base duty

(4) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of bioanalogue, blood-origin, radioactive medicine, new combination of medicines, hybrid medicine:

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 2100-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 900-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period of the certificate:

in the amount of 900-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 3100-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in a manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 2200-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for mutual recognition thereof:

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 1400-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of re-registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

(5) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of a veterinary medicine:

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted through a simplified procedure or that conducted for the purpose of registration of medicines mentioned in Annex 8 to the Rules for regulation of the circulation of veterinary medicines within the customs territory of the EAEU:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period of the certificate:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for reaching agreement thereon:

in the amount of 900-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 600-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

(6) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of a plant-based medicine:

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period of the certificate:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in a manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for mutual recognition thereof:

in the amount of 900-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 600-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of re-registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

(7) Herbal raw materials packed in consumer packages and labelled:

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period of the certificate:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in a manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for mutual recognition thereof:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of re-registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

(8) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of a homeopathic medicine:

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period of the certificate:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in a manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for mutual recognition thereof:

in the amount of 900-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 600-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

(9) First pharmaceutical form, dosage, usage, each subsequent pharmaceutical form and (or) dosage and (or) usage of a non-prescription homeopathic medicine

 

a. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through common procedure or registration for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of re-registration and extending the validity period of the certificate:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a reference country) through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 750-fold of the base duty

e. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration (a non-reference country) in a decentralised manner or in a manner of mutual recognition through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

f. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of adapting (a reference country) the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules or for mutual recognition thereof:

in the amount of 450-fold of the base duty

g. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of use only in the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of adapting the dossier on the medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia to the EAEU rules:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

h. for expert examination conducted for the purpose of registration through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

i. for keeping the registration in force through the EAEU procedure — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

j. for repeated expert examination for the purpose of mutual recognition by other countries of the medicine registered only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure or those the dossier whereof has been adapted:

in the amount of 350-fold of the base duty

(10) For expert examination of each subsequent packaging or release method (including quantitative change in the units included in the package or change in the quantity of herbal raw materials ) or diversity of tastes, where the initial package is the same:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(11) For expert examination of each subsequent packaging or release method (including quantitative change in the units included in the package or change in the quantity of herbal raw materials ) or diversity of tastes, where the initial package is different:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

(12) For expert examination of registration (post-registration) change of each subsequent product(s) or new prescription:

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

(13) Post-registration change: IA and IB, according to each change:

a. for expert examination of change of the medicine registered through common procedure or registered for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination of change of a medicine registered through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination of change of a medicine (a reference country) registered through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination of change of a medicine (a non-reference country) registered through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

e. for accepting the notification of the change not requiring an expert examination:

in the amount of 5-fold of the base duty

(14) Type, according to each change, except for production site and new prescription, in case of which payment of the state duty is made for each medicine at the rate prescribed by point 12 of this part:

 

a. for expert examination of change of the medicine registered through common procedure or registered for the use only in the Republic of Armenia through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

b. for expert examination of change of a medicine registered through a simplified procedure:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

c. for expert examination of change of a medicine (a reference country) registered through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

d. for expert examination of change of a medicine (a non-reference country) registered through the EAEU procedure:

in the amount of 350-fold of the base duty

e. for laboratory expert examination in case of change of up to three indicators in the specification:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

f. for laboratory expert examination in case of change of more than three indicators in the specification:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

2. For expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a certificate for import into the Republic of Armenia or export from the Republic of Armenia of medicines, medicinal substances, herbal raw materials, investigational pharmaceutical products the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) for document expert examination of medicines, medicinal substances, herbal raw materials, investigational pharmaceutical products:

 

a. from one up to 5 medicine names:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

b. from 6 up to 20 medicine names:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

c. in case of 21 and more medicine names — for each medicine name:

in the amount of the base duty

(2) for sample taking:

 

a. from one up to 5 medicine names:

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

b. from 6 up to 20 medicine names:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

c. in case of 21 and more medicine names — for each medicine name:

in the amount of the base duty

(3) for expert examination of the adjustment of the registration status or approval of the compliance with the registration sample or belonging of a product:

 

a. from one up to 5 medicine names:

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

b. from 6 up to 20 medicine names:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

c. in case of 21 and more medicine names — for each medicine name:

in the amount of the base duty

(4) for laboratory expert examination of a medicine or investigational pharmaceutical products:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

(5) for laboratory expert examination of a medicinal substance or herbal raw materials:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(6) for document expert examination for export permit, according to each medicine name:

in the amount of the base duty

3. For expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a licence for production of medicines in the Republic of Armenia the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) for expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a licence for production of medicines in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 280-fold of the base duty

 

4. For expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a licence for wholesale sales of medicines in the Republic of Armenia the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) for expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a licence for wholesale sales of medicines in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 140-fold of the base duty

 

5. For expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a permit for clinical trials (testing) and for monitoring of the safety of investigational pharmaceutical products in the Republic of Armenia the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a permit for clinical trials (testing) in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(2) for expert examination conducted for the purpose of testing the bioequivalence of reproduced medicine with the original medicine, as well as for post-registration clinical trials of a medicine registered in the Republic of Armenia or for clinical trial by the competent body of a member country to the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) or for clinical trials in the Republic of Armenia of a medicine having obtained a permit for compassionate treatment:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

(3) for expert examination of changes made in the documents after obtaining the permit for clinical trials, according to each change:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

(4) for monitoring of safety of investigational pharmaceutical products — annually:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

6. For expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a permit for advertising in the Republic of Armenia the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) for expert examination of each advertising material of each medicine name:

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

 

7. For expert examination of safety, quality and effectiveness for the purpose of state registration, post-registration changes of medical products in the Republic of Armenia, as well as for expert examination of changes not requiring evaluation of safety, quality and effectiveness of medical products in the documents included in the registration dossier, the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) for expert examination of safety, quality and effectiveness of medical products for the purpose of registration, depending on the possible risk class of the application thereof:

 

a. 1 class:

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

b. 2a class:

in the amount of 380-fold of the base duty

c. 2b class:

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

d. 3 class:

in the amount of 630-fold of the base duty

(2) for reaching agreement on expert opinion on the evaluation of safety, quality and effectiveness of medical products for the purpose of registration through the EAEU procedure, depending on the possible risk class of the application thereof:

 

a. 1 class:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

b. 2a class:

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

c. 2b class:

in the amount of 410-fold of the base duty

d. 3 class:

in the amount of 510-fold of the base duty

(3) for expert examination of changes requiring an expert examination of safety, quality and effectiveness in the registration dossier of medical products, depending on the possible risk class of the application thereof:

a. 1 class:

in the amount of 120-fold of the base duty

b. 2a class:

in the amount of 184-fold of the base duty

c. 2b class:

in the amount of 254-fold of the base duty

d. 3 class:

in the amount of

300-fold of the base duty

(4) for reaching agreement on expert opinion on the evaluation of safety, quality and effectiveness of medical products for the purpose of making changes in the registration dossier of medical products through the EAEU procedure, depending on the possible risk class of the application thereof:

 

a. 1 class:

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

b. 2a class:

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

c. 2b class:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

d. 3 class:

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

(5) for expert examination of changes not requiring an evaluation of safety, quality and effectiveness of medical products in the documents contained in the registration dossier:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(6) for keeping the registration in force — annually:

a. 1 and 2a classes:

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

b. 2b and 3 classes:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

8. For expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a certificate of import (compliance) of medical products imported into the Republic of Armenia, the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) for expert examination of registered medical products:

a. for one up to 5 medicine names (the name includes all the versions indicated in the registration certificate) :

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

b. from 6 up to 20 medicine names:

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

c. in case of 21 and more medicine names — for each medicine name:

in the amount of the base duty

(2) for expert examination of non-registered medical products:

 

a. for one up to 5 medicine names (the name includes all the versions indicated in the registration certificate of a reference country) :

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

b. from 6 up to 20 medicine names:

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

c. in case of 21 and more medicine names — for each medicine name:

in the amount of 1,5-fold of the base duty

 

9. For expert examinations conducted for the purpose of issuing a licence for production of or service support to medical products in the Republic of Armenia, the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) for expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a licence for production of medical products:

in the amount of 240-fold of the base duty

(2) for expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a licence for service support to medical products:

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

 

10. For expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a permit for clinical trials (testing) of medical products and for monitoring of the safety of investigational products in the Republic of Armenia, the state duty shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1) expert expert examination conducted for the purpose of issuing a permit for clinical trials (testing) in the Republic of Armenia:

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

(2) for expert examination of changes made in the documents after obtaining the permit for clinical trials:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(3) for monitoring of safety of investigational products — annually:

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(Article 20.3 supplemented by HO-156-N of 11 April 2024)

 

Article 20.4

State duty rates for services delivered in the field of civil aviation

1. State duty for services provided in the field of civil aviation shall be charged at the following rates:

 

(1)

conformity assessment and provision of a certificate of aerodroms, helicopter pads (ground), conformity assessment of take off-landing strip and issuance of an operating permit

a.

Certification of an aerodrome for Category II and III runway for precision landing prescribed by international standards of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO):

for providing a certificate

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

for assessing and approving amendments and supplements to the aerodrome manual in case of changes in aerodrome operational indicators or data

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

for reaching an agreement on the amendment without preliminary approval

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

for maintaining a certificate — annually

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

b.

Certification of an aerodrome for Category I runway for precision landing prescribed by international standards of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO):

for providing a certificate

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

for assessing and approving amendments and supplements to the aerodrome manual in case of changes in aerodrome operational indicators or data

in the amount of 700-fold of the base duty

for reaching an agreement on the amendment without preliminary approval

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

for maintaining a certificate — annually

in the amount of 350-fold of the base duty

c.

Certification of an aerodrome for non-precision landing prescribed by international standards of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO):

for providing a certificate

in the amount of 900-fold of the base duty

for assessing and approving amendments and supplements to the aerodrome manual in case of changes in aerodrome operational indicators or data

in the amount of 600-fold of the base duty

for reaching an agreement on the amendment without preliminary approval

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

for maintaining a certificate — annually

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

d.

conformity assessment and certification of helicopter pads

for providing a certificate

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

for assessing and approving amendments and supplements to the helicopter pads manual in case of changes in operational indicators or data of helicopter pads

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

for reaching an agreement on the amendment without preliminary approval

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

for maintaining a certificate — annually

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

e.

conformity assessment and issuance of an operating permit for take off-landing strip designated for general aviation or domestic non-scheduled commercial transportations

for issuing an operating permit

in the amount of 600-fold of the base duty

for reaching an agreement on the amendment

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

for maintaining an operating permit — annually

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

(2)

Issuing a permit (certificate) to organisations providing air navigation maintenance services

a.

for issuing a permit (certificate) to organisations providing air traffic management services

in the amount of 2000-fold of the base duty

b.

for issuing a permit (certificate) to an organisation providing aeronautical communication and surveillance services

in the amount of 1500-fold of the base duty

c.

for issuing a permit (certificate) to an organisation providing aeronautical information services

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

d.

for issuing a permit (certificate) to an organisation providing aeronautical meteorological support service

in the amount if 800-fold of the base duty

e.

for accepting or non-accepting, by organisations providing aeronautical services, significant changes relating to flight safety in the air traffic management systems

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

f.

for studying, by organisations providing aeronautical services, non-significant changes related to flight safety in the air traffic management systems

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

g.

for maintaining a certificate of an organisation providing aeronautical services — annually

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

(3)

for examining obstacles to be constructed in the vicinity of airports and granting or rejecting relevant consent

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

(4)

for providing a statement of information on the volume of transport service related to the transportation of cargo and (or) passengers via air transport (average calculation expressed in kilometres)

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

(5)

qualification of air traffic controller

a.

for issuing a certificate to a student acting as air traffic management controller

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

b.

for issuing an air traffic management controller licence

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

c.

for passing examination to issue and renew a special qualification grade

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

d.

for passing examination to issue and renew a special grade of unit

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

e.

for issuing and renewing a special grade of instructor and examiner

in the amount of 90-fold of the base duty

f.

for issuing a special grade of language proficiency

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

g.

for renewing the validity period of a certificate

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

h.

for certificate restoration

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

i.

for issuing a duplicate copy of the certificate

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

j.

for replacing a certificate

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

k.

for recognising a certificate of foreign air traffic management controller

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

(6)

for approving and recognising programmes of initial instruction courses for training of air traffic controllers

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

(7)

providing services in the filed of aviation security

a.

approving aviation security programmes for the organisations operating airports:

for airports servicing international flights

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

for airports servicing domestic flights

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

b.

approving change in aviation security programmes for the organisations operating airports:

for airports servicing international flights

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

for airports servicing domestic flights

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

c.

for approving aviation security programmes for organisations holding an aircraft operator’s certificate:

in case of aircraft with a mass of 5700 kg and more or designed for 19 and more passengers

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

in case of aircraft with a mass of up to 5700 kg or designed for less than 19 passengers

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

d.

for changing aviation security programmes for organisations holding an aircraft operator’s certificate:

in case of aircraft with a mass of 5700 kg and more or designed for 19 and more passengers

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

in case of aircraft with a mass of up to 5700 kg or designed for less than 19 passengers

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

e.

for approving aviation security programmes for organisations providing air traffic services

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

f.

for changing aviation security programmes for organisations providing air traffic services

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

g.

for approving aviation security programmes for other organisations carrying out aviation activities

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

h.

for changing aviation security programmes for organisations carrying out aviation activities

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

i.

certification of aviation security specialists

for examining quality control inspector of aviation security

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

for issuing a certificate of quality control inspector of aviation security

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

for examining an aviation security instructor

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

for issuing a certificate of aviation security instructor

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

for issuing a boarding pass to a cabin crew member

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

for examining aviation security screening operators

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

for issuing a certificate of aviation security screening operators

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

j.

approving educational programmes of aviation security

for approving educational programmes of aviation security at airports

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

for approving educational programmes of aviation security for organisations carrying out aviation activities

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(8)

Issuing a permit to an organisation carrying out air transportation of dangerous goods, organisation performing works related to handling of dangerous goods and an organisation servicing air transportation of dangerous goods:

a.

for issuing permit to an organisation operating aircraft for carrying out air transportation of dangerous goods

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

b.

for issuing a permit to an organisation performing works related to handling of dangerous goods

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

c.

for issuing a permit to an organisation servicing air transportation of dangerous goods

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

d.

for extending the validity period of permit of an organisation performing works related to handling of dangerous goods

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

e.

for exempting from the procedure established for transporting dangerous goods

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(9)

state registration of aircraft and continued airworthiness

a.

for state registration of aircraft (including issuance of an aircraft noise certificate)

in case of aircraft with a mass of 5700 kg and more or designed for 19 and more passengers

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

in case of aircraft with a mass of up to 5700 kg or designed for less than 19 passengers

in the amount of 25-fold of the base duty

for de-registration of aircraft

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

b.

for issuing export certificate of airworthiness

in case of aircraft with a mass of 5700 kg or more or designed for 19 and more passengers

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

in case of aircraft with a mass of up to 5700 kg or designed for less than 19 passengers

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

c.

for replacing aircraft registration certificate

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

d.

for issuing a revised aircraft registration certificate

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

e.

for issuing aircraft airworthiness certificate (including issuing aircraft radio station certificate):

in case of aircraft with a mass of 5700 kg and more or designed for 19 and more passengers

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

in case of aircraft with a mass of up to 5700 kg or designed for less than 19 passengers

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

f.

for extending the validity period of aircraft airworthiness certificate

in case of aircraft with a mass of 5700 kg and more or designed for 19 and more passengers

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

in case of aircraft with a mass of up to 5700 kg or designed for less than 19 passengers

in the amount of 60-fold of the base duty

g.

for providing an opinion on the extension of the resources of aeronautical products

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

h.

for issuing aircraft flight permit

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

i.

for issuing an aircraft continuing airworthiness organisation certificate (Part-M)

in the amount of 160-fold of the base duty

j.

Aviation Maintenance Personnel Licensing:

for application for aviation maintenance personnel licensing (Part-66)

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

for issuing an Aviation Maintenance Personnel Licence (Part-66)

in the amount of 12-fold of the base duty

for extending the validity period of Aviation Maintenance Personnel Licence

in the amount of 7-fold of the base duty

for issuing a duplicate copy of Aviation Maintenance Personnel Licence

in the amount of 9-fold of the base duty

for making notes on relevant qualification in Aviation Maintenance Personnel Licence

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

for recognising a foreign Aviation Maintenance Personnel Licence

in the amount of 10-fold of the base duty

k.

aircraft maintenance organisation certification

for issuing aircraft maintenance organisation certificate (Part-145)

in the amount of 120-fold of the base duty

for changing aircraft maintenance organisation certificate (Part-145)

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

for recognising a foreign aircraft maintenance organisation certificate (Part-145)

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

(10)

approval or recognition of aviation training organisations:

a.

for examining conformity of and issuing a certificate to aviation training organisations

in the amount of 600-fold of the base duty

b.

for examining and approving changed of Approved Training Organisation Manual

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

c.

for approving or making modification in the aviation training programme

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

d.

for approving a training flight simulator

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

e.

for recognising a flight training device

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

f.

for maintaining an approved or recognised flight training device — annually

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

g.

for maintaining an Approved Training Organisation Certificate— annually

in the amount of 300-fold of the base duty

h.

for recognising a foreign aviation training organisation:

under general procedure

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

automatically

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

i.

for maintaining a foreign recognised aviation training organisation — annually

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

j.

for examining a declared aviation training organisation and approving a declaration

in the amount of 130-fold of the base duty

k.

for maintaining a declaration of a Declared Aviation Training Organisation — annually

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

(11)

certification of Institute of Aviation Medicine:

a.

for issuing a certificate of Institute of Aviation Medicine

in the amount of 400-fold of the base duty

b.

for maintaining a certificate of Institute of Aviation Medicine — annually

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

c.

for issuing a certificate of conformity for Aviation Medical Examiner

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

d.

for extending the validity period of a certificate of conformity for Aviation Medical Examiner

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

(12)

Issuing permits for ensuring air communications in the territory of the Republic of Armenia:

a.

for issuing an aircraft operator’s certificate:

in case of aircraft with a mass of 5700 kg and more or designed for 19 and more passengers

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

in case of aircraft with a mass of up to 5700 kg or designed for less than 19 passengers

in the amount of 500-fold of the base duty

for amendment to the special operating provisions attached to the air operator’s certificate or provision of new special operating provisions, due to the increase in the number of aircraft

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

for assessing and approving amendments to documents subject to approval for the issuance of an air operator’s certificate

in the amount of 350-fold of the base duty

for assessing and approving amendments with a potential impact on the conditions that served as a basis for issuing an air operator’s certificate and requiring prior approval

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

for maintaining an air operator’s certificate — annually

in the amount of 2500-fold of the base duty

b.

for issuing a certificate for scheduled commercial air transport operations

in the amount of 5000-fold of the base duty

c.

for changing a certificate for scheduled commercial air transport operations

in the amount of 1000-fold of the base duty

d.

for maintaining a certificate for scheduled commercial air transport operations — annually

in the amount of 800-fold of the base duty

e.

for issuing permits for aircraft operators of the Republic of Armenia to ensure commercial air communications to, within and outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia:

in case of two or more non-scheduled air communications

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

in the case of charter-based non-scheduled air communications

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

f.

for issuing permits for aircraft operators of foreign States to ensure commercial air communications to, within and outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia:

in case of regular air communications

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

in case of two or more non-scheduled air communications

in the amount of 15-fold of the base duty

in case of charter-based non-scheduled air communications

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

g.

for issuing permit for conducting training and special flights within the Republic of Armenia

in case of unmanned aerial systems

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

in case of general aviation

in the amount of five-fold of the base duty

for issuing one-time permit for conducting training flights within the Republic of Armenia

in the amount of two-fold of the base duty

for issuing an annual permit for conducting training flights within the Republic of Armenia

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

(13)

certification of flight and cabin crew members

a.

for the Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) exam

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

b.

for the issuance of a commercial pilot certificate

in the amount of 250-fold of the base duty

c.

for extending the validity period of a commercial pilot certificate

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

d.

for recognising a foreign commercial pilot certificate

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

e.

for the issuing a Private Pilot Licence (PPL)

in the amount of 150-fold of the base duty

f.

for extending the validity period of a Private Pilot Licence

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

g.

for recognising a foreign Private Pilot Licence

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

h.

for an airline pilot licence exam

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

i.

for issuing an airline pilot licence

in the amount of 350-fold of the base duty

j.

for extending the validity period of an airline pilot licence

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

k.

for testing of theoretical knowledge for the purpose of recognising a foreign airline pilot certificate

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

l.

for recognising a foreign airline pilot certificate

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

m.

for issuing a flight navigator certificate

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

n.

for extending the validity period of a flight navigator certificate

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

o.

for recognising a foreign flight navigator certificate

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

p.

for issuing a flight engineer certificate

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

q.

for extending the validity period of a flight engineer certificate

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

r.

for recognising a foreign flight engineer certificate

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

s.

for issuing a loadmaster and flight attendant certificate

in the amount of 75-fold of the base duty

t.

for extending the validity period of a loadmaster and flight attendant certificate

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

u

for recognising a foreign loadmaster and flight attendant certificate

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

v

for issuing a pilot licence for air-balloon

in the amount of 80-fold of the base duty

w

for extending the validity period of a pilot licence for free air-balloon

in the amount of 40-fold of the base duty

x

for recognising a foreign free balloon pilot licence

in the amount of 20-fold of the base duty

y

for issuing a flight instructor qualification

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

z

for extending the validity period of a flight instructor qualification

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

aa

for recognising a foreign flight instructor certificate

in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty

bb

for the exam of flight examiner certificate

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

cc

for issuing a flight examiner certificate

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

dd

for extending the validity period of a flight examiner certificate

in the amount of 200-fold of the base duty

ee

for testing of theoretical knowledge for the purpose of recognising a foreign flight examiner certificate

in the amount of 30-fold of the base duty

ff

for issuing a foreign flight examiner certificate

in the amount of 120-fold of the base duty

gg

for providing a duplicate copy of a flight crew member licence

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

hh

for issuing a duplicate copy of certificate of the cabin crew member

in the amount of 50-fold of the base duty

(Article 20.4 supplemented by HO-218-N of 2 May 2024)

(The payment by current beneficiaries of the annual duty provided for by Article 20.4 of the Law supplemented by Article 1 of the Law HO-218-N of 2 May 2024 for the year of entry into force of the same Law shall be made by 1 May of the year of entry into force of the same Law)

 

CHAPTER V

 

PRIVILEGES IN RELATION TO STATE DUTY

 

Article 21.

Types of privileges in relation to state duty

The following privileges may be defined in relation to the state duty:

(a) release from payment of state duty,

(b) reduction of state duty,

(c) reduction of the rate of state duty,

(d) deferral of payment of state duty,

(e) release from payment of penalties calculated for failure to charge the state duty within the specified time limit, reduction of penalties, and deferral of payment thereof.

 

Article 22.

Privileges in relation to state duty at courts

1. The following persons shall be released from payment of state duty at courts:

(1) claimants — with regard to claims on charging salary and other payments equivalent thereto and on other labour disputes, as well as those on protection of rights related to volunteer work, disputes related to volunteer work;

(2) claimants — with regard to issues relating to levy of alimony fees, increase of the amount of alimony, liability of a guilty person where a debt arises by the fault of the person obliged to pay alimony upon the alimony agreement, levy of a fine for failure to pay the alimony in due time or compensation of damages caused due to delay in fulfilling the alimony obligations;

(3) claimants — with regard to claims relating to compensation for maiming or other damage caused to health, as well as for damage caused due to a death of the breadwinner;

(4) social insurance and social security bodies with regard to regressive claims relating to charging from persons having caused a damage the amounts of the pension and allowance paid to the victim or his or her family members;

(5) claimants — with regard to the claims relating to compensation for the property damage to be compensated in the course of criminal proceedings;

(6) claimants — with regard to statements of claim (applications) filed with the court for matters on legally protected rights and the protection of interests;

(7) accused persons having been acquitted:

a. with regard to claims for compensation in rem for the damage caused thereto as a result of institution of unlawful criminal prosecution, application of enforcement measures, conviction, as well as other unlawful restrictions of rights or freedoms;

b. with regard to claims for reinstatement in the previous job (previous position), and where it is impossible — for receiving an adequate job (position) or for monetary compensation for the damage caused as a result of losing the previous job (position);

c. claims for setting off the term of serving a punishment in the form of confinement against all types of service record;

d. with regard to claims for regaining the previously occupied residential space, and where it is impossible — for receiving a residential space with an adequate living space and location;

e. with regard to claims for compensation of damages caused as a result of confiscation, imposed attachment, seizure or disposal of property otherwise;

(8) claimants — with regard to a claim for compensation of damages caused as a result of torture in the cases provided for by Article 1087.3 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia;

(9) non-commercial organisations and natural persons:

a. with regard to appeals against decisions rendered as a result of examination of applications for restoring the missed time limit for submitting the writ of execution for enforcement, delaying or deferring the execution of the judicial act, altering the manner of, and procedure for, its execution, converting the execution of the judicial act;

b. when filing a claim for reclaiming cultural values from illegal possessor;

(10) persons bringing complaints with regard to complaints on review of the judicial act rendered due to new or newly emerged circumstances;

(11) state bodies — in the cases prescribed by sub-point “a” of point 9 of part 1 of this Article;

(12) applicants — for applications on submitting the writ of execution for compulsory enforcement of arbitral award;

(13) applicants or claimants —in cases provided for by Chapters 27, 29.3 and 31.3 of the Administrative Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia;

(14) claimants — for claims on protective decision envisaged by Law of the Republic of Armenia “On prevention of family and domestic violence and protection of persons subjected to family and domestic violence”;

(15) prosecutorial bodies — with regard to claims for protection of state interests;

(16) applicants — with regard to applications for violation of their rights to elect and (or) be elected;

(17) non-governmental organisations conducting observation missions during the elections — in cases provided by Chapter 29 of the Administrative Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia;

(18) applicants — with regard to applications for declaring a citizen as having no or limited active legal capacity, declaring a citizen with no active legal capacity as having active legal capacity or removing the limitations on a citizen’s active legal capacity;

(19) asylum seekers and refugees:

a. with regard to claims on appealing against the decisions taken on asylum claim and recognition of a refugee;

b. with regard to claims filed on asylum or refugee status alleging violations of their rights and guarantees under the asylum procedure;

(20) mental health institutions —with regard to applications for compulsory placement of a citizen in a mental health institution;

(21) medical institutions or the authorised body of state administration in health sector— with regard to applications on subjecting a citizen to compulsory medical examination and (or) treatment;

(22) law enforcement officers — with regard to applications on reviewing the court judgment on the basis of reconciliation agreement of parties;

(23) the head of the temporary administration and the liquidator — with regard to claims filed with the view to fulfil their tasks defined by Law of the Republic of Armenia “On bankruptcy of banks, credit organisations, investment companies, investment fund managers and insurance companies”;

(24) debtor — with regard to applications on voluntary bankruptcy;

(25) bankruptcy administrators — for statements of claims, applications filed before the courts within their powers prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On bankruptcy”, as well as for appealing against the judicial act in terms of their salary;

(26) the human rights defender — with regard to claims filed thereby;

(27) claimants — with regard to claims for state benefits (including the compensation for cash deposits invested in the ASSR republican bank of the USSR Savings Bank before 10 June 1993), claims for allocation, payment, calculation, recalculation of state pensions, other cash payments paid under social security schemes, social insurance payments and other claims;

(28) claimant — with regard to cases of return of a child unlawfully relocated to the Republic of Armenia or unlawfully kept in the Republic of Armenia;

(29) applicants — with regard to cases on recognising the servicemen or another citizen lost in action as missing or dead.

2. Persons specified in part 1 of this Article shall be released from payment of duty for appeals and cassation appeals against court judgements and decisions.

3. State duty shall not be charged from the person having brought the appeal if the judicial act is appealed only in terms of judicial expenses.

4. State duty shall not be charged for appeals against interim judicial acts.

5. State duty shall not be charged for claim in rem instituted in the criminal proceedings.

(Article 22 amended, supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, HO-4 of 12 October 1999, HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-258 of 6 November 2001, edited, supplemented by HO-159-N of 7 July 2005, supplemented by HO-116-N of 1 June 2006, amended by HO-282-N of 28 November 2007, supplemented by HO-220-N of 27 November 2008, amended by HO-84-N of 7 April 2009, supplemented by HO-15-N of 22 December 2010, HO-265-N of 25 October 2011, HO-243-N of 16 December 2016, amended, supplemented by HO-111-N of 9 February 2018, supplemented by HO-305-N of 9 December 2019, edited by HO-177-N of 19 April 2021, edited, amended, supplemented by HO-228-N of 9 June 2022, supplemented by HO-211-N of 14 June 2023, edited by HO-174-N of 12 April 2024)

(Law HO-177-N of 19 April 2021 has a transitional provision)

(Article with regard to Law HO-181-N of 11 April 2024 shall enter into force from 1 July 2025)

 

Article 23.

Privileges regarding the state duty at the State Arbitration of the Republic of Armenia

(Article deleted by HO-277 of 28 December 1998)

 

Article 24.

Privileges regarding the state duty in the bodies carrying out notarial actions

Release from payment of state duty in the bodies carrying out notarial actions shall be granted in the following cases:

(a) to natural persons — for certification of the will or the property donation agreement in favour of the state or the community;

(b) for issuing a certificate regarding the property passed to the state or the community by succession right, as well as for issuing necessary documents for the receipt thereof;

(c) to natural persons — for issuing them a certificate for succession right, where:

- a residential house, an apartment with a land parcel or a share in a housing construction cooperative shall pass to the persons residing together with the testator who as of the date of the testator’s death have been record-registered in the same house and continue to reside there after his or her death;

- objects of succession right shall be considered as bank deposits, personal and property insurance sums, government bond loans, the amounts of salaries, pension amounts;

(d) to natural persons — for certification of powers of attorney for receipt of pensions and benefits;

(e) to mothers — for certification of the authenticity of copies of documents on awarding them with orders and medals for having many children;

(f) to heirs of such citizens who have been insured, on the account of the companies, from the cases of death caused by the accidents occurred at their workplace (place of service) or from being deceased, for issuing a certificate attesting the right to inherit insurance premium;

(g) to persons with disabilities of the Second World War and persons who became disabled when protecting the Republic of Armenia, the previous USSR or when fulfilling their military duties and as a result of injury, contusion, maiming or a disease connected with their stay in battlefront, as well as the previous guerrilla warriors with disabilities, other persons with disabilities with an equivalent status of the above-mentioned groups of military servants in accordance with the pension legislation, family members of the persons deceased or missing when protecting the Republic of Armenia, the previous USSR in the Second World War or when fulfilling other military duties, for certification of the authenticity of the copies of documents necessary for granting privileges upon the mentioned grounds;

(h) (point repealed by HO-27-N of 8 April 2008)

(i) to owners and users — for certification of the contracts on alienation of lands of agricultural use considered as state property in the course of the first state registration of the rights to immovable property in the areas where the cadastral mapping has been completed;

(j) to natural persons — for certification of an agreement on gratuitous privatization (donation) of apartments considered as state property;

(k) to owners — for certification of the contracts on alienation of land parcels considered as state property that have been provided gratuitously upon the ownership right, in the cases provided for by law;

(l) to persons forcibly displaced from the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1988-1992 and having received the citizenship of the Republic of Armenia — for certification of the contracts on lease of residential spaces of the community housing fund occupied thereby;

(m) to owners and users — for certification of the contracts on using the residential space defined by Article 225 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia;

(n) for certification of land consolidation agreements within the framework of the state programmes of the Republic of Armenia;

(o) for submitting the rights arising from the transactions aimed at creation, modification, transfer of real estate rights for state registration;

(p) for issuing a certificate of acceptance or rejection of inheritance, certificate of ownership to a portion of the property under common joint or common shared ownership, for performing the notarial actions provided by parts 10 (except for certification of deeds of gift), 17 and 21.2 of Article 11 of this Law, based on the application of the heir of the servicemen or another citizen deceased (dead) as a result of military operations or declared as dead by the court.

(Article 24 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, HO-4 of 12 October 1999, HO-67 of 30 May 2000, HO-136 of 15 December 2000, HO-234 of 9 October 2001, edited by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002, supplemented by HO-198-N of 4 October 2005, HO-389-N 16 July 2020, HO-177-N of 19 April 2021, amended by HO-360-N of 2 October 2024)

(Law HO-177-N of 19 April 2021 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 25.

Privileges regarding the state duty in the bodies exercising registration of civil status acts

Release from payment of state duty in the bodies exercising registration of civil status acts shall be granted in the following cases:

(a) to education bodies, commissions on juvenile affairs — for issuing duplicate copies of birth certificates in connection with placement of orphans and children left without parental care in all types of boarding schools and educational institutions;

(b) to citizens — in case of obtaining new state certificates on the basis of correction of spelling mistakes or individual letters or numbers in the record of registration of civil status acts;

(c) to spouses — in case of adopting the family name of one of the spouses as their common married name at the time of registering the marriage;

(d) for making corrections in connection with the change of the parent’s last name or first name to the records of registration of acts on juveniles;

(e) pensioners;

(f) persons with 1st and 2nd groups of disability or persons with profound or severe level of functional limitation and children with disabilities;

(g) a family member whose monthly income is below 130 per cent of the threshold that entitles one family member to receive an insecurity benefit under the procedure approved by the Law “On state allowances” and the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia and who is recognised as socially insecure under the family insecurity assessment procedure;

(h) participants of military operations, the spouse, child and parent of a person who is died, recognised as a person with disabilities, declared as missing or dead as a result of military operations.

Where the state registration of establishing paternity is performed simultaneously with the state registration of the marriage of the parents of the child, no state duty shall be charged for state registration of establishing the paternity of the child.

(Article 25 edited, supplemented by HO-68-N of 19 January 2021, supplemented, amended by HO-360-N of 2 October 2024, edited by HO-412-N of 24 October 2024)

(Law HO-412-N of 24 October 2024 contains a transitional provision)

 

Article 26.

Privileges regarding the state duty paid for documents of legal significance issued to natural persons and the services provided, as well as for consular services or actions

(title supplemented) by HO-277 of 28 December 1998)

 

1. Release from payment of state duty for services relating to issue of documents in connection with the civil status of foreign nationals in the Republic of Armenia, as well as the preparation of an entry visa to the Republic of Armenia shall be granted to:

(a) foreign specialists and their family members invited to work by the President of the Republic of Armenia, the National Assembly and the Government;

(b) persons arriving in the Republic of Armenia for providing humanitarian and technical aid to the Republic of Armenia. In cases not directly specified by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia (including, the international treaties of the Republic of Armenia), the distinction of the programme (activity) as of the humanitarian aid and the charitable and technical (other) nature thereof shall be carried out by the authorised body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia coordinating the humanitarian aid;

(c) close relatives of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia (spouse, child, father, mother, sister, brother);

(c1) foreigners learning, working at educational institutions (pedagogue, lecturer) implementing general education and professional education programmes in the Republic of Armenia;

(d) (sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006)

(e) (sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006)

(f) persons under the age of 18;

(g) persons entering the Republic of Armenia with diplomatic passports, as well as officers of diplomatic representations and consular offices of the Republic of Armenia and their family members;

(h) official persons and members of delegations visiting the Republic of Armenia upon the invitation of the President of the Republic of Armenia, the President of the National Assembly corr., the Chairperson of the Constitutional Court, the Prime Minister or the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Human Rights Defender;

(i) close relatives of the persons holding a refugee status, who visit the Republic of Armenia (spouse, child, father, mother, sister, brother);

(j) foreign nationals of Armenian origin, in whose foreign country of permanent residence an emergency situation has been created, which threatens the life and health of the nationals;

2. Release from payment of state duty for issue of an entry visa to the Republic of Armenia shall be granted to:

(a) the representatives of international organisations accredited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia;

(b) (sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006)

(c) (sub-point repealed by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006)

(d) persons invited to the courts or preliminary investigation bodies of the Republic of Armenia and other states as a party, witness or expert in civil, family cases and criminal proceedings.

3. Release from payment of state duty for issuing a passport of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia (except for biometric passport) shall be granted to the citizens of the Republic of Armenia, who are family members with monthly income below 130 per cent of the threshold that entitles one family member to receive an insecurity benefit under the procedure approved by the Law “On state allowances” and the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, and who are recognised as socially insecure under the family insecurity assessment procedure.

3.1. Release from payment of state duty for issuing an identification card shall be granted to:

(a) persons applying for the family insecurity assessment based on the information provided by the Single Social Service in hard copy or in electronic form;

(b) citizens of the Republic of Armenia, who are family members with monthly income below 130 per cent of the threshold that entitles one family member to receive an insecurity benefit under the procedure approved by the Law “On state allowances” and the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, and who are recognised as socially insecure under the family insecurity assessment procedure;

(c) citizens of the Republic of Armenia issued with an identification card for the first time and having not been issued with a passport of a citizen of the Republic of Armenia after attaining the age of 16.

4. Release from payment of state duty for issuing by the authorised body in the field of migration and citizenship of a statement of information on record-registration addresses of natural persons shall be granted to:

(a) pensioners living alone;

(b) persons with the first and second degree of disability or persons with limited functionality of profound or severe level;

(c) a family member with monthly income below 130 per cent of the threshold that entitles one family member to receive an insecurity benefit under the procedure approved by the Law “On state allowances” and the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, and who is recognised as socially insecure under the family insecurity assessment procedure.

5. The amount of state duty shall be reduced by 60 percent for issuing a temporary residence status in the Republic of Armenia and a residence card to parents, spouse, child, sister or brother of a foreigner studying in the educational institutions implementing general education and professional education programmes or acting as a pedagogue, lecturer, as well as for issuing a residence card, extending the validity period of the temporary residence status, and for record-registration. The list of documents certifying the fact of being a parent, spouse, child, sister or brother of a foreigner studying or working as a pedagogue, lecturer in the Republic of Armenia, that are required for enjoying the privilege provided for by this part, shall be defined by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

(Article 26 supplemented by HO-462-N of 19 November 2002, HO-46-N of 1 December 2003, HO-50-N of 3 March 2004, HO-116-N of 1 June 2006, amended by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006, supplemented by HO-254-N of 28 November 2007, HO-149-N of 10 May 2011, HO-185-N of 24 October 2012, HO-65-N of 19 June 2013, HO-138-N of 11 December 2013, supplemented, amended by HO-228-N of 9 June 2022, amended by HO-464-N of 16 December 2022, HO-329-N of 25 October 2023, edited by HO-360-N of 2 October 2024, edited by HO-412-N of 24 October 2024)

(Law HO-464-N of 16 December 2022 has a final part and transitional provisions)

(Law HO-412-N of 24 October 2024 contains a transitional provision)

 

Article 27.

Privileges regarding the state duty for granting a conclusion (authorisation document) of right to export or temporarily export cultural values

(title amended by HO-202-N of 17 November 2017)

 

Release from payment of state duty for granting a conclusion (authorisation document) of right to export or temporarily export cultural values shall be granted to:

(a) the author of the cultural values to be exported, and in case of death of the author — the heirs thereof within 50 years starting from 1 January of the year following the author’s death;

(b) persons granted with state rewards of the Republic of Armenia, of other states, as well as rewards of international organisations, in case a relevant document certifying such rewards is submitted;

(c) guardian or trustee of the author with the first or second degree of disability or of the author with a profound or severe level of functional limitation;

(d) museums, archives, libraries, other reserves of cultural values considered as the property of the state and (or) communities when temporarily exporting the cultural values permanently preserved in their collections (funds), in case of availability of relevant documents prescribed by law;

(e) musical ensembles, musician-performers when going on guest tours or study tour, for temporary export of musical instruments and hand-made musical instruments by national and international masters, in case of availability of relevant documents prescribed by law;

(f) (sub-point repealed by HO-123 of 13 December 2000)

Release from payment of the state duty, against each donated cultural value, for issue of a conclusion (authorisation document) on right to export shall be granted (once) to persons who have donated cultural values to the state that are registered or are to be registered in the state protection lists or registers, as prescribed by legislation of the Republic of Armenia.

(Article 27 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, edited, supplemented, amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, edited by HO-177-N of 6 December 2004, amended by HO-202-N of 17 November 2017, HO-360-N of 2 October 2024)

 

Article 28.

Privileges regarding the state duty for actions of legal significance relating to the legal protection of inventions, industrial designs, plant species, trademarks, geographical indications, appellation of origin, traditional speciality guaranteed, integrated circuit topographies

(title amended by HO-14 of 26 October 1999, HO-123 of 13 December 2000, HO-62-N of 29 April 2010, supplemented by HO-234-N of 8 December 2017,edited by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021)

 

Annual state duty shall not be charged for keep in force a patent on invention, recognised by the state as confidential.

For each licence issued after the publication of an announcement on willingness of a patent holder to grant the right to use of invention to another person, the state duty for keeping the patent in force from the year following it shall be reduced by 50 percent.

Natural persons, legal persons having up to 25 employees, for receiving a patent on invention, industrial design and preserving the validity thereof, registering plant species and preserving the validity of the rights to them, shall pay the state duties provided for by sub-points (a), (d) to (j), (l) to (m), (o), (q) to (r), (u), (x), (ac) of point 1, sub-points (a), (c), (e), (i), (k) to (l), (n) to (o), (r), (u) to (v) of part 1 of point 3 of part 1 of Article 18 of this Law, and for registration of trademarks (except for collective and certification trademarks) and for receiving a certificate, the state duties prescribed by sub-points (a) to (n) and (r) of point 4 of part 1 of Article 18 of this Law shall be reduced by 75 percent, and legal persons having 25 to 100 employees — by 50 percent.

Moreover, the rate reduced by sub-points (x), (ac) of point 1, sub-points (o), (u) of point 3 and sub-point (m) of point 4 of part 1 of Article 18 of this Law shall be applied where the patent holder or the proprietor of the trademark and the assignee of those rights or the transferor to obtain the patent right and the assignee of those rights enjoy the privilege of paying state duty at a reduced rate. Moreover, where they are deemed to be claimants and right holders of different categories, i. e. enjoy different percentages of reduced rate, the duty shall be paid at the lowest reduced rate.

Further annual state duties for preserving the validity of the given patent from the moment of registration of a licence on the use of a licensed invention, plant species shall be paid at the full rate.

(Article 28 supplemented, amended by HO-14 of 26 October 1999, amended, edited by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, amended by HO-358-N of 29 May 2002, HO-140-N of 24 November 2004, amended, edited by

HO-113-N of 10 June 2008, HO-62-N of 29 April 2010, supplemented by

HO-156-N of 28 September 2016, HO-234-N of 8 December 2017, edited by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021)

 

Article 281.

Privileges regarding the state duty for issuing licences, permissions and certificates provided for by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On weapons” and renewal thereof

 

Educational institutions shall be released from payment of state duty for licences for acquisition of weapon and permissions for keeping and using weapon.

Persons awarded with weapon, members of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, judges of the Constitutional Court, members of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, judges, prosecutors, investigators, upon the decision of the Prosecutor General — other officers of the Prosecutor’s Office, as well as the military servants of state militarised organisations and retired officers shall be released from payment of state duty provided for the permission of keeping and carrying the temporarily assigned weapon.

(Article 281 supplemented by HO-181 of 2 May 2001, amended by HO-45-N of 17 January 2018)

 

Article 28.2.

Privileges regarding the state duty for implementation of customs operations, customs escort, temporary storage of goods, as well as for issue of preliminary decisions by the customs authorities in cases specified by law

1. Release from payment of the state duty established by Article 19.9 of this Law shall be granted to:

(1) goods imported into the territory of the Republic of Armenia within the framework of humanitarian aid and charitable projects. Where not directly specified in the legislation (including in international treaties), the differentiation of the project by its nature is made by the Consultative Commission for Coordination of Charitable Projects established by the Prime Minister;

(2) means of transportation engaged in regular international transportation in the course of carrying out such transportation;

(3) goods of personal use transported by natural persons across the state border of the Republic of Armenia without payment of customs duties and taxes or with exemption from payment of customs duties and taxes;

(4) light passenger cars registered in EAEU member states transported across the border of the Republic of Armenia by natural persons who are not individual entrepreneurs;

(5) cultural values registered or subject to registration in the prescribed manner in the Republic of Armenia, placed under customs procedures “Temporary export” or “Temporary import” for exhibition, as well as re-placed under customs procedures “Re-export” and “Re-import” respectively after the expiry of the time limits thereof;

(6) goods transported from one consignor to one consignee with one transport document across the border of the Republic of Armenia (except for exported goods, including to an EAEU member country), the total customs value of which does not exceed the amount equivalent to 200 euros;

(7) goods exported from one consignor to one consignee with one transport document across the border of the Republic of Armenia, including to an EAEU member country, the total customs value of which does not exceed one million Armenian Drams;

(8) goods to be placed under the customs procedure “Waiver in favour of the state”.

1.1.

2. The law of the Republic of Armenia may establish other privileges, in addition to those established by this Article.

(Article 28.2 supplemented by HO-230-N of 14 November 2019, edited, supplemented by HO-505-N of 29 December 2020, edited by HO-122-N of 4 May 2022)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-290-N of 12 June 2024 shall enter into force from the 1st day of the 7th month following the month including the day of the official promulgation of the same Law)

 

Article 29.

Privileges regarding the state duty for other services or operations

Release from payment of state duty for exit of natural persons (air passengers) from the Republic of Armenia by air transport shall be granted to:

(a) children under the age of 12;

(b) passengers in transit;

(c) participants of the Great Patriotic War and persons with equivalent status, participants of the Great Patriotic War with disability and persons with equivalent status, a person accompanying the participant of the Great Patriotic War with the first degree of disability or with profound level of functional limitation, widows of the victims of the Great Patriotic War, the heroes of the Soviet Union and persons awarded with three classes of Order of Glory, national heroes of the Republic of Armenia;

(d) natural persons departing by air transport, in case where the air transportation is performed within the radius of up to 450 kilometres from the airports of the Republic of Armenia;

(e) air passengers of “Shirak” airport of Gyumri.

(f) natural persons travelling by air transport who, during the privilege periods specified in this point, depart for airports with an IATA code not served during the last 12 months prior to the first flight in this direction via commercial airlines, if these airlines have flights to the same airports during the summer and winter periods of IATA.

The time limit for the privilege envisaged by this point is granted by 36 months (with a possibility of extending for 24 months), which is calculated by descending order of months commencing from the first flight of the first airline meeting the conditions serving as a ground for granting a privilege in the given direction. Information on the appropriate time limits for the application of the privileges defined by this point, including on the extension of those time limits, on air carrier, requirements for the frequency of flights and the offline points, as well as other necessary information shall be published in accordance under the procedure prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

Bodies of legislative and executive powers, local self-government bodies, as well as the Pension and Employment Fund of the Republic of Armenia, Human Rights Defender, entities carrying out media activities defined by point 30 of part 1 of Article 3 of the Law “On state registration of legal persons, state record-registration of separated subdivisions and institutions of legal persons, and individual entrepreneurs” having filed a claim, as prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, in compliance with the requirements set forth by the Law “On state registration of legal persons, state record-registration of separated subdivisions and institutions of legal persons, and individual entrepreneurs”, whose access granted on the basis of the claim has not been limited in accordance with the procedure provided for by Law, shall be released from payment of the state duty for provision of information recorded in the State Single Register of Legal Entities the Republic of Armenia. Release from payment of the state duty for provision of complete information recorded in the State Single Register of Legal Entities of the Republic of Armenia and posted on the Internet website shall also be granted to judicial bodies, prosecution bodies of the Republic of Armenia, bodies established by law and operating permanently, notaries, banks and other organisations as prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

Persons with disabilities having received cars from the social security bodies under privileged conditions shall be released from payment of the state duty for annual technical inspection of transportation means in terms of the mentioned cars.

State competent bodies shall be released from payment of the state duty for state registration of the restriction of the right to immovable property through taking it under arrest and (or) custody, as well as imposing an attachment thereon.

In the course of first state registration of the rights to immovable property in the areas where cadastral mapping has been completed, owners shall be released from payment of the state duty for the first state registration of the rights to immovable property of residential significance (except for garages serving as a separate unit) and to land parcels of agricultural significance owned by citizens by the right of ownership, including the state registration of contracts on alienation or lease of state- or community- owned lands in the course of that process.

The citizens of the Republic of Armenia having gratuitously acquired state-owned immovable property of residential significance shall, for registration of the ownership right to such property, be released from payment of the state duty for state registration of the rights to property.

When registering the ownership right to state-owned lands gratuitously provided upon the ownership right in the cases provided for by law, owners shall be released from payment of the state duty.

Release from payment of the state duty for state registration of the rights to property shall be granted to persons forcibly displaced from the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1988-1992 and having received the citizenship of the Republic of Armenia, who have been recognised as a lessee of residential spaces of the community housing fund occupied thereby as prescribed by law.

Owners and users shall be released from payment of the state duty for registering the right to use the residential premise in the cases prescribed by Article 225 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia.

Within the framework of the state programmes of the Republic of Armenia the owners shall be released from payment of the state duty for registering the ownership right by land consolidation contracts.

A legal entity shall be released from payment of state duty for state registration due to reorganisation, for state registration of new edition of its Statute or state record-registration of the new edition of the Statute of its separated subdivisions, institutions, where the state registration or record-registration is conditioned by the necessity, as defined by law, of reorganisation in accordance with the law of the Republic of Armenia having entered into force after registration or record-registration in the State Register or that of bringing the Statute in compliance with law.

The payments prescribed by point 36 of Article 16 of this Law for state registration of the rights to immovable property situated in borderline and high mountainous settlements included in the lists prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, shall be charged in the amount of 50 percent.

Based on the contract concluded with the State Register of Real Estate on deferred payment of the duty provided for by law, the duty provided for by this Law for state registration of the ownership right of communities to a garage constituting an arbitrary construction legalised by the decision of the head of community and the relevant land parcel, shall be paid in the amount of one eighth of the state duty within two years from the moment of state registration of rights in rem, at quarterly intervals.

(Article 29 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, supplemented, amended by HO-4 of 12 October 1999, supplemented by HO-67 of 30 May 2000, HO-136 of 15 December 2000, HO-234 of 9 October 2001, amended by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002, supplemented by HO-198-N of 4 October 2005, HO-116-N of 1 June 2006, edited by HO-241-N of 26 December 2008, supplemented by

HO-131-N of 19 March 2012, HO-223-N of 17 December 2014, HO-192-N of 16 December 2015, edited, amended, supplemented by HO-167-N of 20 October 2016, supplemented by HO-33-N of 16 December 2016, HO-215-N of 14 November 2019, HO-258-N of 9 December 2019, amended, supplemented by HO-146-N of 6 March 2020, edited by HO-41-N of 19 January 2021, HO-228-N of 9 June 2022, amended by HO-360-N of 2 October 2024)

(Law HO-41-N of 19 January 2021 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 30.

Payment of state duty in case where release from the state duty for transactions undergone notarial certification is granted to one party

(Article repealed by HO-4 of 12 October 1999)

 

Article 31.

Establishment of the privileges reserved to individual payers or groups of payers in relation to state duty

The privileges reserved to individual payers or groups of payers in relation to state duty may be defined by:

(a) the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia in the case provided for by sub-point “c” of point 8 of Article 14 of this Law;

(b) the Government of the Republic of Armenia and local self-government bodies in relation to all types of state duties by means of paying the state duty instead of the payer;

(c) courts in separate cases referred to in Article 9 of this Law having regard to the property status of the parties;

(c1) the Constitutional Court having regard to the property status of the applicant;

(d) the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador and the head of the consular office of the Republic of Armenia in the cases referred to in Article 15 of this Law having regard to the property status of the payer;

(e) other privileges in relation to state duty shall be defined by law.

The Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia shall be released from payment of all types of state duties defined by this Law.

The Pan Armenian Bank shall be released from payment of state duty for registration and licensing, established by this Law.

The Compensation Fund created on the basis of Law of the Republic of Armenia “On compensation for damages caused to life or health of armed servicemen during the defense of the Republic of Armenia” shall be released from payment of all types of state duties defined by this Law.

(Article 31 supplemented, amended by HO-237 of 6 July 1998, supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, supplemented by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, HO-27-N of 8 April 2008, HO-33-N of 26 December 2008, HO-254-N of 15 December 2016, HO-45-N of 17 January 2018, amended by HO-280-N of 9 December 2019, HO-177-N of 19 April 2021)

(Law HO-177-N of 19 April 2021 has a transitional provision)

 

CHAPTER VI

 

THE PROCEDURE FOR CALCULATING, PAYING AND REFUNDING STATE DUTY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE OFFICIALS FOR OBSERVANCE OF THE PROCEDURE

 

Article 32.

Charge of state duty

State duty shall be charged before the provision of the relevant service or the performance of the operation, unless another procedure is defined by this Law or certain privileges are provided to the payer in relation to state duty. Where a state duty is envisaged to be charged for issuing a licence and (or) each insert, issuing the duplicate copy of a licence and (or) each insert, renewal of the licence and (or) each insert, reformulation of the licence and (or) each insert, for implementation of the same activity subject to licensing in a different place, issuing a permission to implement activity or a duplicate copy of the document certifying the right to permission, renewal of a permission for implementation of activity and reformulation of a permission for implementation of activity, provision of the relevant service or performance of the operation shall be deemed to be communication or handing over to the applicant, in a due manner, the licence and (or) each insert, the duplicate copy of the licence and (or) each insert, the renewed licence and (or) each insert, the reformulated licence and (or) each insert, the licence and (or) each insert for implementation of the same activity subject to licensing in a different place, the document certifying the right to permission for implementation of activity, the duplicate copy of the document certifying the right to permission for implementation of activity, the document certifying renewal of the right to permission for implementation of activity, the document certifying the reformulation of the right to permission for implementation of activity, as well as relevant decisions thereon, respectively.

Where a state duty is envisaged for obtaining the right to perform activity subject to notification in cases prescribed by law, record-registration by an authorised body of the relevant person shall be deemed to be provision of the relevant service or performance of the operation.

Individual entrepreneurs and organisations with a licence for organising passenger transportations by one to four passenger taxis shall, in case of adding the quantity of passenger taxis with more than four, as prescribed by the legislation, be obliged to pay a state duty in the amount of 100-fold of the base duty. The state duty must be paid before the quantity of motor vehicles becomes more than four, as prescribed by the legislation. In the case prescribed by this paragraph, irrespective of the date of payment of the state duty, the subsequent annual state duty for licence shall be paid within the time limit prescribed by Article 34 of this Law. Where individual entrepreneurs and organisations add the quantity of passenger taxis with more than four as prescribed by the legislation, they shall pay the subsequent annual state duty at the rate fixed by the second paragraph of sub-point 15.5 of Article 19 of this Law.

Where individual entrepreneurs and organisations make the quantity of passenger taxis four or less as prescribed by the legislation, they shall pay the subsequent annual state duty within the time limit, prescribed by Article 34 of this Law, at the rate fixed by the first paragraph of sub-point 15.5 of Article 19 of this Law.

The moment of the performance of operations and provision of services for the purposes of calculating and charging state duty shall be considered the moment of their completion.

In case of the exit of natural persons from the territory of the Republic of Armenia by means of air transport the moment of the provision of services shall be considered to be the moment of the flight.

In case of simultaneous performance of several operations or provision of several services, for which state duty is charged, the state duty shall be calculated separately for each operation or service, except for cases prescribed by this Law, and shall be transferred to the relevant bank account. The original of the document attesting the payment of state duty with an indication on the type of state duty, the name of the payer, the bank account number of the money transfer transaction and the date of the payment shall be kept with the body responsible for charging state duty, being attached to the files attesting the performance of operations and provision of services, unless otherwise provided for by the Government of the Republic of Armenia. Bodies performing relevant operations or providing relevant services shall pay the amounts of state duty (also in cash) to the bank (transfer to the budget) for the operations performed and the services provided by the diplomatic service agencies of the Republic of Armenia operating in foreign states within the first two banking days of the month following the performance of the relevant operations and the provision of the relevant services.

The types of state duty, which may be implemented in cash by the body or the official responsible for charging state duty shall be defined by the authorised body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia and be agreed with the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia. In such cases bodies (responsible officers thereof) performing relevant operations or providing relevant services shall pay the amounts of charged (received) state duty to the bank (transfer to the budget) within two banking days following the performance of relevant operations and the provision of relevant services, with the exception of cases of the exit of natural persons from the territory of the Republic of Armenia by means of air transport where, upon the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, the power of charging the state duty has been delegated to the organisations where the amounts of state duty are transferred to the State Budget in the manner prescribed by the Government. In such cases the air carriers of the Republic of Armenia and the representatives of foreign air carriers record-registered in the Republic of Armenia shall transfer the amounts of state duty included in the price of the passenger transportation ticket to the State Budget not later than within 10 banking days following the day of the actual flight, while in case of non-regular air transportations, as well as air transportations carried out by foreign organisations not having representations in the Republic of Armenia, the amounts of state duty shall be calculated and transferred to the State Budget by organisations exploiting airports, within 10 banking days following the day of the actual flight, irrespective of the receipt of transfers from the organisations carrying out air transportations.

In certain cases the power of charging state duty may be delegated, in the manner prescribed by the legislation, to enterprises, organisations, upon the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia. In such cases the relevant enterprises, organisations may establish payments for the compensation of expenses relating to the implementation of such powers (with the exception of the cases of sales of air transportation tickets and delegation of the power of charging state duty to organisations carrying out air transportations), the amount of which shall be agreed with the authorised body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

One fourth of the annual amount of the state duty defined by points 14.2.1 to 14.2.5 of Section 14 of Article 19 of the Law shall be paid quarterly to the State Budget until 25th day of the month preceding the beginning of the quarter inclusive, except for the first state duty charged for granting a licence, the relations pertaining to the payment whereof are regulated in the manner and time limits defined by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On licensing” in the following amounts: the product of one twelfth of the annual amount of the state duty set forth by points 14.2.1 to 14.2.5 of Section 14 of Article 19 of the Law and the number of months, along with incomplete months, included in the period extending between the month the licence was granted and the last month of the given quarter.

The state duty defined by Article 19.9 of this Law shall be paid:

(a) under customs procedures, except for the customs procedure “Customs transit”, as well as for temporary storage prior to the moment of release of the goods;

(b) under the customs procedure “Customs transit” prior to the completion of customs transit;

(c) for customs escort prior to the actual commencement of the customs escort;

(d) for preliminary decisions prior to the issuance of preliminary decisions by the customs authorities;

e) for filling in the customs declaration prior to submission of the application provided for by the Law “On customs regulation”.

The amounts of the state duty prescribed by Articles 19.7, 19.8 and 19.14 of this Law shall be paid to the state budget within the time limits prescribed by these Articles. In case of alienation by natural persons of a car belonging thereto with the right of ownership to other natural persons, the time of provision of the service for registration of termination of the right of ownership over the given vehicle shall be considered as the time when the termination of the right of ownership over this car is registered.

In case the passenger transportation is carried out by an order placed through the passenger transportation service via the electronic platform, the powers for calculating and charging the state duty for each passenger transportation shall be delegated to the organisations or individual entrepreneurs providing passenger transportation service via the electronic platform, who will pay the state duty amounts charged in the amount prescribed by part 2 of Article 19.7 of this Law to the State Budget for each month by 10th day of the month following the given month, inclusive.

(Article 32 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006,  HO-241-N of 26 December 2008, amended by HO-85-N of 20 May 2010, supplemented by HO-203-N of 8 December 2010, HO-232-N of 6 December 12, HO-49-N of 29 April 2013, edited by HO-133-N of 23 December 2013, supplemented by HO-171-N of 20 November 2014, HO-124-N of 13 November 2015, edited by HO-123-N of 29 June 2016, supplemented by HO-167-N of 20 October 2016, amended, supplemented by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019, supplemented by HO-230-N of 14 November 2019, HO-356-N of 14 September 2022, HO-596-N of 23 December 2022, amended by HO-572-N of 16 December 2022, supplemented, amended by HO-432-N of 16 November 2022, supplemented by HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

(Law HO-432-N of 16 November 2022 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-572-N of 16 December 2022 has a final part and transitional provisions)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-290-N of 12 June 2024 shall enter into force from the 1st day of the 7th month following the month including the day of the official promulgation of the same Law)

 

Article 33.

The peculiarities of charging state duty for actions of legal significance relating to the legal protection of inventions, industrial designs, plant species, trademarks, geographical indications, appellation of origin and traditional speciality guaranteed, trade names, integrated circuit topographies

(title amended by HO-14 of 26 October 1999, HO-123 of 13 December 2000, HO-62-N of 29 April 2010, supplemented by HO-234-N of 8 December 2017, amended by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021)

 

In case of separating the application for an object of industrial property, integrated circuit topographies into several separate applications, state duties for each separated application shall be paid in the same way as for a separate application.

Where the amount of the state duty paid for any operation provided for by Article 18 of this Law does not conform to the defined amount, the underpaid state duty shall be subject to payment within a two-month period following the receipt of the notification thereof.

State duties for granting a patent (a short-term patent) on inventions or a patent on industrial design shall be paid within the time limit specified by law after sending the decision of the authorised state body thereon, while state duties for registering and granting a certificate on plant species, trademarks, granting a certificate for registration and (or) use of geographical indications and appellation of origin, registering traditional speciality guaranteed shall be paid within the time limit specified by law following the receipt of the decision of the authorised state body thereon. The duties may also be paid within six months after the completion of that period. In this case, the amounts of the duties shall be increased by 50 percent, except for duties for registering trademarks and issuing certificates, the rates of which shall be increased by 20 percent.

Annually state duties in relation to legal protection of inventions, shall be paid for the whole year of the patent validity period. The first payment of the annual state duty shall be made before the beginning of the second year of the patent validity period or together with the state duty for granting a patent. State duties for extension of the period for protection of the rights to the industrial design shall be paid for each five years, calculated from the date of filing the application, moreover, state duty for the first five years shall be paid together with the state duty for granting a patent for an industrial design. State duty for each of the following five years shall be paid during the year preceding it.

The state duty defined by sub-point (e) of point 1 of part 1 of Article 18 of this Law shall be subject to payment together with the defined state duty.

Where the state duty for granting a patent or a certificate has been paid at the rate increased by 50 percent, according to third part of this Article, within six months after the expiry of the defined period, the rates of other state duties subject to payment together with that duty shall remain unchanged.

State duties for each following year of a patent validity period shall be paid during the current year of the patent validity period. State duty for the following five years of the validity period of rights to industrial design shall be paid during the fifth year of the current validity period of those rights. State duties may also be paid within six months after the expiry of that period. In this case, the amounts of duties shall be increased by 50 percent.

State duty for extension of the validity period of registration of a trademark, as well as the validity period of the certificate of the right to use the geographical indications or the appellation of origin shall be paid during the tenth year of their validity period. State duty may also be paid within six months after the expiry of that period. In this case, the amount of the duty shall be increased by 50 percent, except for the duty for extending the validity period of registration of a trademark, the rate of which shall be increased by 20 percent.

The document attesting the payment of the state duty within the periods defined by the second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh parts of this Article shall be submitted to the body responsible for charging state duty not later than within 10 days after the expiry of that period. In case of failure to submit the document attesting the payment within the mentioned time limit, the state duty shall be considered as unpaid and the relevant operation shall not be performed or the service shall not be provided.

(Article 33 supplemented, amended by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended by HO-14 of 26 October 1999, amended, edited by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, amended, supplemented, edited by HO-113-N of 10 June 2008, amended by HO-62-N of 29 April 2010, supplemented by HO-156-N of 28 September 2016, HO-234-N of 8 December 2017,amended, edited by HO-110-N of 3 March 2021)

 

Article 33.1.

Peculiarities of charging state duty for expert examinations in the field of regulation of circulation of medicines and medical products

1. Where the state duty paid for any operation provided for by Article 20.3 of this Law does not correspond to the amounts defined, the underpaid state duty shall be subject to payment within a period of 5 days upon the day of the receipt of the notification thereof.

2. The annual sate duty for keeping the registration in force shall be paid for each next year after the registration, by the end of the current year.

3. For monitoring of safety of investigational products in the course of clinical trials, the state duty shall be paid for each next year after obtaining the permit for clinical trial, by the end of the current year. The annual state duty shall not be paid after the completion or termination of the clinical trial.

(Article 33.1 supplemented by HO-156-N of 11 April 2024)

 

Article 34.

Responsibility for the accurate calculation and timely charge of state duty

State duty shall be calculated and charged by the officials delivering relevant services or performing relevant operations prescribed by this Law.

The responsibility for the accurate calculation and timely charge of state duty shall be vested in the officials delivering relevant services or performing relevant operations, while in case of the amounts charged (received) in cash, the responsibility of timely transfer of those amounts to the budget shall be vested in the official of the body responsible for charging state duty, and in case a violation is detected, through inspection in the body responsible for charging state duty, by the authorized body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, exercising control over the observance of the procedure for calculation and charge of the state duty (in the case of services or actions chargeable with annual state duty— with regard to the first annual state duty), the above mentioned responsibility shall be vested in the body responsible for charging state duty.

The payment of the regular annual state duty for each upcoming year defined by this Law shall be made before the beginning of the upcoming year, not later than the date of issuing the documents (of rights, permissions, patent certificates, licences, qualification certificates) specified on such documents (of rights, permissions, patent certificates, licences, qualification certificates) as a result of provision of services or performance of operations which are chargeable with annual state duty by the authorised body, or not later than the date of record-registration of persons having submitted notifications on performing certain types of activities in the cases prescribed by law.

In case of a declaring the decisions of the authorised bodies on suspension, termination of the validity of patent certificate, permission, licence or qualification certificate for the activity or the right to perform activity subject to notification (except for the cases of non-payment of annual state duty) as invalid by way of superiority or through judicial procedure, the time limit for paying annual state duty defined by this part shall be extended for a period starting from the adoption of the decision on suspension, termination of the validity of patent certificate, permission, licence or qualification certificate or the right to perform activity subject to notification till the entry into force of the act on declaring that decision as invalid.

In case the power to charge state duty is delegated to the organisations in the manner prescribed by Article 32 of this Law, where the amount of state duty not paid by them exceeds five million Armenian Drams within the period prescribed by this Law, the head of the authorised body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia exercising supervision over the procedure of calculation and charge of state duty shall impose attachment on bank accounts of organisations thus ensuring the fulfilment of the liabilities in relation to state duty. Moreover, the head of the authorised body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia shall have no right to renounce that attachment, unless the liabilities in relation to the state duty are fulfilled in full.

In case the passenger transportation is carried out by an order placed through the passenger transportation service via the electronic platform, the responsibility of charging the state duty, for each passenger transportation, prescribed by part 2 of Article 19.7 of this Law and paying it to the State Budget shall be borne by the organisations or individual entrepreneurs providing passenger transportation service via the electronic platform.

The payment of the subsequent monthly or quarterly state duty prescribed by sub-point 15.6 of Article 19 of this Law for each first upcoming month or quarter shall be made before the start of the upcoming month or quarter, respectively, not later than the issuance date of licences specified by the authorised body on the relevant licence.

(Article 34 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended, supplemented by HO-283 of 14 December 2001, edited, supplemented by HO-11-N of 15 December 2005, supplemented by HO-241-N of 26 December 2008, supplemented, amended by HO-14-N of 26 February 2013, supplemented by HO-171-N of 20 November 2014, HO-124-N of 13 November 2015, HO-294-N of 21 December 2017, HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

(Article with regard to the amendment of Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 35.

Responsibility for delaying the charge of state duty

As a result of improper fulfilment by the officials responsible for charging state duty of the liabilities imposed on them, the amounts of state duty not charged to the budget within the defined time limits must be levied from them (and in case of detecting improper performance through complex tax inspection in the body responsible for charge of state duty or through inspection of the accuracy of calculation and charge of state duty, by the authorized body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, exercising control over the observance of the procedure for calculation and charge of state duty — from the body responsible for charging state duty) to the State Budget together with a penalty calculated in the amount of 0. 075 % for each overdue day.

The officials responsible for charging state duty (bodies responsible for charge of state duty) shall pay to the budget the amounts of the state duty not charged to the budget within the defined time limit, as well as the penalties calculated in compliance with the first part of this Article within ten days following the effective date of the act.

In case of failure to make the payment within the time limits defined for state duty payment by the payer having privileges in relation to delay of the time limit for state duty payment in the manner prescribed by this Law, as well as to make the payment of amounts of annual state duties prescribed by this Law and amounts of state duty prescribed by Articles 19.7 and 19.8 of this Law, the amounts of the state duty not paid to the budget must be levied from the payer (in the case prescribed by Article 32 of this Law — the organisation or individual entrepreneur responsible for charging the state duty prescribed by part 2 of Article 19.7 of this Law and for paying it to the State Budget) to the State Budget together with a penalty calculated in the amount of 0.075 % for each overdue day. Payers of annual state duty, as well as payers of the state duty (in the case prescribed by Article 32 of this Law — the organisation or individual entrepreneur responsible for charging the state duty prescribed by part 2 of Article 19.7 of this Law and for paying it to the State Budget) defined by Articles 19.7 and 19.8 of this Law shall pay to the budget the amounts of the state duty not paid to the budget within the established time limit, as well as penalties calculated in accordance with this Article deriving therefrom, within ten days following the effective date of the relevant act issued by the authorised body.

Charge of amounts of the state duty not charged or paid, as well as charge of penalties set forth in this Law deriving therefrom, shall be performed in the manner prescribed by Chapter 13 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On fundamentals of administration actions and administrative proceedings”.

In case of failure to mention the purpose of the payment (the number of the licence, permission, patent certificate or qualification certificate and liability period, and, in cases prescribed by law — only the liability period with respect to the record-registration of persons having submitted notifications on performing certain types of activities) in the documents attesting the payment of annual state duty or failure to submit a written statement on the purpose of the payment to the authorised body within a 30-day period after the payment, priority shall be given to the redemption of the amounts of regular annual state duty (by a chronological order prescribed for their payment) at the expense of the amounts of annual state duty paid by annual state duty payer and only thereafter — to the liabilities in relation to the penalties of annual state duty prescribed by this Law. In case of failure to submit a written statement or to replace the purpose of the payment mentioned in the submitted statement with a new statement within the time limit mentioned in this part, the liabilities of annual state duty shall not be subject to recalculation.

In case of termination of notified activity of the validity of licences, patent certificates, permissions and qualification certificates earlier than the time limits specified by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia for the notified activity of the validity thereof— from the day of termination, in case of termination of notified activity of the validity of licences, patent certificates, permissions and qualification certificates upon an application — from the day of submitting the application (in case a later time limit for termination is specified in the application — from that day, and in case a time limit earlier than the date of submission of application is specified in the application — from the day of submission of the application), where the application is granted later, and in the case provided for by point 4 of part 1 of Article 61 of this Law — from the date of entry into force of the relevant law, penalties for overdue days shall not be calculated for the failure to make the payment within the time limits prescribed by this Law for the payment of the regular annual state duty having not been paid previously.

The penalty provided for by this Article shall be applied for the amount of the state duty not paid (not charged) on time, for the entire period after elapse of the period of payment thereof, but not more than for 730 days.

(Article 35 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, amended by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-11-N of 15 December 2005, amended by HO-186-N of 8 December 2010, supplemented, amended by HO-14-N of 26 February 2013, amended by HO-145-N of 5 December 2013, amended, supplemented by HO-189-N of 19 November 2014, supplemented by HO-124-N of 13 November 2015, amended, supplemented by HO-294-N of 21 December 2017, supplemented by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019, HO-43-N of 4 March 2022, HO-393-N of 8 December 2023)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-107-N of 28 February 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(The time limit for ensuring the liabilities having emerged prior to the entry into force of Law HO-107-N of 28 February 2024 and not fulfilled or not charged, for rendering a decision on charging and (or) imposing attachment as prescribed by the Tax Code of the Republic of Armenia, shall be calculated from the 10th day upon the entry into force of Law HO-107-N of 28 February 2024, and regulations prescribed by Section 19 of the Tax Code of the Republic of Armenia shall be applied to the ensuring and enforcement of the non-fulfilled obligations, in accordance with part 2 of Law HO-107-N of 28 February 2024)

 

Article 36.

Payment of state duty

State duty shall be paid in the Republic of Armenia in Armenian Drams.

The Government of the Republic of Armenia may define and put into mandatory use model forms for bank settlement documents (receipts) of state duty payment, by agreeing them with the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia.

State duties for services or operations being performed outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia, as well as for granting an entry visa to the Republic of Armenia at the crossing points of the state border of the Republic of Armenia may be paid in foreign currency.

When charging state duties in foreign currency for services or operations being performed outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia, the annual average exchange rate published by the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia and established in currency markets during the preceding year shall be taken as a basis.

When calculating the rate of state duty in foreign currency, the rate shall be rounded off to get a complete number in the given foreign currency. The rate below 0,5 shall be rounded off by means of decreasing while the rate above 0,5 shall be rounded off by means of increasing.

(Article 36 supplemented by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, edited, supplemented by HO-49-N of 25 December 2006, amended by HO-151-N of 9 April 2007, supplemented by HO-203-N of 8 December 2010)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 36.1.

Record-registration of state duty liabilities

1. Personal account cards shall be opened in the tax authority for the record-registration of state duty liabilities (duty, penalty), except for state duty liabilities prescribed by sub-point 15.6 of Article 19, Articles 19.7, 19.8 and 20.2 of this Law. The superior tax authority shall define the form of the personal account card and the procedure for maintaining it. Record-registration of the state duty liabilities prescribed by sub-point 15.6 of Article 19 of this Law shall be carried out by the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Armenia and the record-registration of the state duty liabilities prescribed by Article 20.2 of this Law shall be carried out by the Police of the Republic of Armenia. Record-registration of state duty liabilities prescribed by Articles 19.7 and 19.8 of this Law shall be carried out by the tax authority in a separate personal account card opened in the tax authority for the record-registration of those liabilities.

2. State duty liabilities and their redemption (payment, offset), as well as the amounts paid in excess of state duty liabilities shall be recorded in Drams (free of lumas). In case of liquidation of a payer, the general state duty liabilities and overpayments up to one hundred Armenian Drams shall be disregarded.

3. State duty liabilities shall be record–registered on the payment deadline prescribed by law (i.e. on the date prescribed by law for the payment of the relevant state duty liability).

4. When applying chronological order, at the expense of the payments or offsets actually transferred to the State Budget of the Republic of Armenia by the payer, if the latter has not mentioned the period and liability redemption to which it refers (not limited to purpose), priority shall be given to the redemption of existing state duty liabilities in the following order: the amounts of duty, penalties.

(Article 36.1 supplemented by HO-186-N of 8 December 2010, edited by HO-171-N of 20 November 2014, supplemented by HO-69-N of 25 June 2019, amended and supplemented by HO-596-N of 23 December 2022)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 37.

Supervision over the observance of the procedure for calculating and charging state duty

Supervision over the observance of the procedure for calculating and charging state duty shall be exercised by the authorised bodies of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

 

Article 38.

Refunding state duty

State duty shall be subject to partial or full refund:

(a) if state duty has been paid in an amount excessive than requested by the legislation in force;

(a1) where the application is returned, examination of the case is rejected or the case proceedings is dismissed by the Constitutional Court;

(a2) to the party having paid the state duty for remuneration paid to the mediator for mediation performed for up to two hours, but not more than the amount established by the Government Decision, if the law provides for a binding requirement to conduct mandatory mediation prior to applying to the court, a protocol on completion of mediation was drawn up, and after completion of mediation a statement of claim with regard to the case between the same persons, on the same subject matter and on the same factual grounds has been submitted to the court, and the claim was rejected or partially granted;

(b) if the applications (complaints) were returned or the admission thereof was rejected by the courts, as well as the notarial actions were rejected by the notary, the registration of civil status acts and performance of other actions and services by the civil status acts registration bodies were rejected, except for the case prescribed by part 3 of this Article;

(b1) where, by quashing and amending the judicial act, the Court of Appeal rejected the claim according to which the claimant was released from payment of state duty;

(c) in case of dismissing the case proceedings or leaving the claim without examination, if the case is not subject to examination in court or the plaintiff has not observed the preliminary extra-judicial procedure prescribed for resolving the dispute for the given category of case, or the claim has been filed by a person lacking active legal capacity, or the appeal was left without examination by the Court of Cassation;

(c1) where the case is examined under simplified proceedings after being admitted under the common adversary proceedings;

(d) where the supposed price for the claim, wherefrom the court has charged state duty, has been adjusted during the case examination as a result of which the total price for the claim has been reduced;

(d1) where the Court of First Instance has made a decision on cancelling the payment order in case of an objection submitted by the debtor or impossibility to deliver the payment order to the debtor;

(e) in case of granting a claim about releasing property from attachment;

(f) in case of rejecting the performance of either operation by the state body responsible for charging state duty, unless otherwise stipulated by law;

(g) in case of a refusal to provide relevant services or perform relevant operations by a state duty payer before the completion of performance of relevant operations or provision of relevant services, except for the cases when the body responsible for charging state duty has already initiated, in the prescribed manner, the performance of the relevant operation or the provision of the relevant service having a continuous nature;

(h) in case a state duty was paid forcorr. the registration of divorce upon mutual agreement of spouses having no minors, where the registration has not been conducted due to reconciliation of the spouses or failure to appear by one of them;

(i) in case of declaring the acts of civil status or contracts undergone notarial certification, certificates for the right of succession and other documents as invalid through judicial procedure;

(j) in case a state duty was paid for filing an appeal before the Board of Appeal, where the Board of Appeal or the Court declared the decision adopted on the basis of the expert examination of the applications for the registration of industrial property objects as invalid, except for the cases where it is done on the basis of the new circumstances emerged after the adoption of the decision on expert examination;

(k) if state duties were paid by the citizens for receiving the exit documents for departure from the Republic of Armenia, in case of refusing to leave for foreign countries before obtaining the permission.

The amounts of the state duty provided for by Article 18 of this Law and subject to refund may, in the manner prescribed by the body responsible for charging state duty, be used by the payer for the performance of other operation or provision of other service by the same body, where the amounts of the state duty subject to refund are paid to the account to which the amounts of the state duty defined for the performance of the given operation or provision of the given service are paid.

Where the Court of Cassation of the Republic of Armenia refuses to admit the cassation appeal lodged against the judicial act delivered by Court of Appeal based on results of examination of an appeal lodged against a civil judgment on the ground of part 1 of Article 397 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia or refuses to admit the cassation appeal lodged against the judicial act disposing of a case on the merits on the ground of point 2 of part 1 of Article 162 of the Administrative Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, the state duty, in the amount not exceeding twenty thousand Armenian Drams, shall not be refunded. The state duty provided for by parts 2-14 of Article 19.6 of this Law shall not be subject to refund.

The state duty provided for by Article 20.3 of this Law shall not be subject to refund, except for the cases where the expert examination has not been launched or the state duty has been paid in an amount exceeding the prescribed amount.

(Article 38 amended by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, edited, supplemented by HO-123 of 13 December 2000, supplemented by HO-358-N of 29 May 2002, edited by HO-375-N of 12 June 2002, HO-255-N of 5 December 2006, edited, supplemented by HO-130-N of 11 December 2013, supplemented by HO-45-N of 17 January 2018, amended by HO-111-N of 9 February 2018, supplemented by HO-359-N of 13 June 2018, HO-310-N of 15 July 2021, HO-177-N of 19 April 2021, HO-437-N of 16 November 2022, amended by HO-164-N of 03 May 2023, supplemented by HO-156-N of 11 April 2024, amended by HO-146-N of 12 April 2024)

(Law HO-177-N of 19 April 2021 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-310-N of 15 July 2021 has a transitional provision)

(Law HO-164-N of 3 May 2023 has a final part and transitional provisions)

(Article shall, with regard to the amendment to the Law HO-390-N of 24 October 2024, enter into force after six months following the official promulgation of the same Law)

(Law HO-390-N of 24 October 2024 contains a final part and transitional provisions)

(The amendment provided for by Article 2 of the Law HO-85-N of 7 February 2024 was not implemented due to a text-related inconsistency between the main and amending legal acts)

 

Article 38.1.

Refund of state duty paid to court on the ground of concluding a settlement agreement following mediation

 

Where mediation is assigned by court, and the parties conclude a settlement agreement within the time limit prescribed by the court for mediation, the paid state duty shall be refunded to the party having paid the state duty in the following portions:

(a) 50 percent, where mediation was assigned by the Court of First Instance;

(b) 40 percent, where mediation was assigned by the Court of Appeal.

(Article 38.1 supplemented by HO-48-N of 7 May 2015)

 

Article 39.

The procedure for refunding state duty

Financial institutions shall refund state duty from the budget against which the amount has been offset, not later, than within 30 days from the receipt of the documents prescribed by this Law, except for the amounts of duty paid for the exit of natural persons by air transportation means. State duty paid for the exit of natural persons by air transportation means shall be refunded to natural persons in the manner prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

State duty shall be refunded upon application of the payer, if it has been submitted to a financial institution not later, than within three years from the emergence of the right to be refunded the state duty or a part of it.

State duty charged for the services provided and operations performed outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia shall be refunded by the body responsible for charging state duty from the amounts of state duty charged during the current month, which have not yet been transferred to the State Budget in the manner prescribed by law. In this case, an act shall be drawn and attached to the application of the payer, the standard form of which and the procedure for documentation of the refund of state duty shall be defined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.

Filing an application to a financial institution for refund of state duty or a part of it shall suspend the above-mentioned time limit.

The statements of information of the Constitutional Court, the court and other institutions charging state duty which relate to the substantiation of the reasons of refunding the state duty in part or in full, as well as the documents attesting the payment of state duty shall be attached to the application on refund of state duty.

(Article 39 amended by HO-277 of 28 December 1998, supplemented by HO-241-N of 26 December 2008, HO-203-N of 8 December 2010, HO-45-N of 17 January 2018)

(Article with regard to the amendment to Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 shall enter into force from 1 January 2026)

(Law HO-339-N of 11 September 2024 has a transitional provision)

 

Article 40.

The currency of refunding state duty

 

State duty shall be refunded in Armenian Dram, and in the cases prescribed by the second part of Article 36 of this Law — also in foreign currency.

 

Article 41.

The procedure for appealing against the actions of the officials providing relevant services or performing relevant operations while charging state duty

In the course of charging a state duty, the actions of the officials providing relevant services or performing relevant operations may be appealed against to the body to which these persons are immediately subordinate, or to the court.

Appeals shall be examined by way of superiority and decisions on them shall be made not later than within a five-day period following the receipt of the appeal.

(Article 41 amended by HO-111-N of 9 February 2018)

 

Article 42.

Agency-related regulatory acts concerning the application of this Law

Agency-related regulatory acts concerning the application of this Law shall be adopted by the authorised body of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

 

CHAPTER VII

 

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

 

Article 43.

Entry into force of the Law

This Law shall enter into force from the moment of its promulgation.

Upon the entry into force of this Law, the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On state duty” of 19 July 1996 with its subsequent amendments and supplements shall be repealed.

The amount of the regular annual state duty subject to payment during 2013 for the types of activities prescribed by points 14.2 and 14.3 of section 14 of this Law with regard to activities performed for the period before 1 January 2014 shall be defined by the product of the one twelfth of the amount of the annual state duty set forth by points 14.2 and 14.3 of section 14 of this Law and the number of months, along with incomplete months, included in the period between the month of payment of the regular state duty during 2013 and 1 January 2014.

(Article 43 supplemented by HO-169-N of 22 June 2012, amended by HO-232-N of 6 December 2012)

 

Article 44.

Charging state duties subject to payment but not paid before the entry into force of this Law

(Article repealed by HO-123 of 13 December 2000)

 

President

of the Republic of Armenia

L. Ter-Petrosyan

 

Yerevan

10 January 1998

HO-186

 

 

Published on a joint site 14.04.2025.