Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Ministry of Justice, where the ministry's activity report 2025 was discussed.

Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan reported that the performance of the previous year was 94.7%. During the reporting period, the electronic system of administrative proceedings was launched, and currently the number of electronic cases is 72%, and the modernized Arlis platform, which was also integrated with e-Draft, ensuring the joint work of the platforms. Mandatory mediation in marital and family cases and the e-mediation.am platform were also launched.

It was reported that in the context of increasing the effectiveness of rights protection and dispute resolution, it is proposed to establish clear deadlines for the examination of civil and administrative cases, relevant bills have been submitted to the National Assembly. A 6-month period is provided for the examination of civil cases, which can be extended twice by 3 months each, but the examination of the case must last no more than one year. In the case of administrative cases, a 6-month period is set, which can be extended twice by 6 months each, but the examination of the case must last no more than 1.5 years. A bill on limiting appeals of administrative bodies has also been submitted to the National Assembly, which is aimed at reducing the workload of the courts by 30%. The package of these bills provides for limiting the submission of appeals of administrative bodies to the Court of Appeals for cases not exceeding 300,000 drams. In the event of the adoption of the legislative package, it is expected that the number of appeals submitted to the Court of Appeals will decrease by 2,000 cases.

Within the framework of the institutional reform of the State Register of Legal Entities, a new system has been launched, which is interconnected with the SRC, State Population Register, and Depository systems, includes an improved Real Beneficiary System and an automated tool for initiating proceedings. Although the system was launched in December 2025, 1274 private enterprises, 1 foundation, 4 LLCs have already been registered. In other words, the new system allows for the registration of all organizational and legal forms online, quickly and efficiently.

Referring to the digitalization process in this direction, the Prime Minister noted: “What should be our task in the direction of digitalization? To introduce the system, let it work for some time in parallel, we will make sure that this system provides what needs to be provided, and gradually complicate and limit the capabilities of the paper version, so that, in the end, it goes away.”

The Prime Minister, speaking about applications and letters addressed to the state system, noted: "Practice shows that there are people who take the same letter to this ministry, that ministry, the National Assembly, the Government, the presidential residence, the prosecutor's office, etc. Now we are introducing a principle of digitalization and are saying that the state should ask the citizen for one piece of information once, in the same way, the citizen should submit one question to the state in one place, electronically, because a huge amount of time and resources are spent on that."

In this regard, officials in charge reported that the system is currently under development.

In the context of improving the integrity verification tools, mechanisms for the publicity of the final part of integrity conclusions, as well as the investigation of the integrity of persons holding public offices with a wide range of powers and the authority to make independent decisions, have been established, the bills of which have been submitted to the National Assembly.

The approved concept for the introduction of effective mechanisms in the field of personal data protection envisages the creation of a body with the status of an Independent Autonomous Body.

The Prime Minister was informed that a package of bills has been submitted to the National Assembly, which resolves the problems accumulated over the years in the field of alienations carried out for the purpose of the overriding interests of the public.

In 2025, the National Assembly adopted a package of bills introducing a system for electronic notifications. The cases when electronic notifications are mandatory and they are considered to be properly implemented are defined.

Reforms have also been carried out in the field of bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Code has been introduced, which provides for bankruptcy only on the basis of an obligation that has been confirmed by a court order and has passed the stage of compulsory execution, provides for negative consequences for the debtor in the event of discharge from debt on the basis of bankruptcy, and the property will be sold by electronic auction without the human factor.

Within the framework of judicial and legal reforms and in the context of easing the workload of the courts, a number of procedural issues of administrative proceedings have been simplified, reducing the workload and ensuring efficient and rapid examination of cases. A written procedure for examining cases has been introduced in the administrative and criminal courts of appeal and a 6-month examination period has been established, which can be extended by no more than 4 months.

Next, the system of conditional early release from serving a sentence and its improvement were addressed. Prime Minister Pashinyan highlighted this process and noted: “What has been our practice in recent decades? We occasionally resort to the institution of amnesty, which does not individualize, that is, does not evaluate a person, but rather evaluates the article de jure. Now we must follow a different logic and implement an individual evaluation system, which is also important from the point of view of manageability and resocialization.”

In 2025, the Armenian Center for Arbitration and Conciliation received more than 300 arbitration and more than 200 conciliation cases.

The quality of services provided to citizens has also improved: in September 2025, the Ministry's hotline system was introduced, through which citizens have the opportunity to call and receive information. 16,110 calls were received, of which 8,289 were answered using an artificial intelligence system, thus reducing the physical response by 49%.

It was reported that the Compulsory Enforcement Service confiscated more than 64 billion drams in favor of claimants in 2025, which is 6 billion 252 million drams more than in 2024, or 11 percent. Of the above confiscated funds, 20 billion 819 million drams were confiscated in favor of the state budget, which is 8 percent more than in 2024.

In the context of EU visa liberalization, 26 guidelines related to the competence of the Ministry have been highlighted in 3 sectoral directions. A schedule for the implementation of the Ministry's actions has been developed.

This year, it is planned to present the text of the new Constitution, the Code of Administrative Offenses, the unified electronic platform for judicial administration and case management. It is planned to introduce the electronic system of criminal proceedings, the electronic notary system, the electronic bankruptcy system, and the automation of judicial statistics. Deadlines for the examination of criminal cases will also be established, as well as regulations on continuing the examination of the case from the moment of interruption in the event of a change of judge, and simplifying the process of examining evidence.