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Latvijas Vēstnesis, in the issue of September 25, 2026, No. 185 (OP 2026/185), published information from the Constitutional Court titled “On the initiation of case No. 2026-16-0103”. The entry is numbered as sequence 14 and is placed in the “CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS” section, subsection “Constitutional Court”. The publication is the official source through which the court informs the public about the initiation of a new case.

What and where is being announced

Publisher: Official Gazette of the Republic of Latvia, Latvijas Vēstnesis.
Publication date: September 25, 2026.
Issue: No. 185, official reference OP 2026/185.
Document type: “Constitutional Court information” — a separate publication genre that differs from the publication of a court decision or judgment.
Subject: initiation of case No. 2026-16-0103.
Public reference: https://www.vestnesis.lv/url/16985?content=1

Case number and previous cases

Case number 2026-16-0103 is formed according to the Constitutional Court case numbering format: year, sequence number in the year, and an additional identifier. Sequence number 16 indicates that this is the sixteenth case initiated in court in 2026.

During the same year, several similar notices regarding case initiations have already been published in Latvijas Vēstnesis:

No. 2026-13-01 — published on August 21, 2026, in issue No. 160 (OP 2026/160).
No. 2026-14-01 — published on August 25, 2026, in issue No. 162 (OP 2026/162).
No. 2026-15-0103 — published on September 2, 2026, in issue No. 168 (OP 2026/168).
No. 2026-16-0103 — published on September 25, 2026, in issue No. 185 (OP 2026/185).

The additional identifier “0103” is repeated in both case No. 2026-15-0103 and the new case No. 2026-16-0103, which indicates the same case group in the court’s numbering.

Other publications in the same issue

Issue No. 185 is not dedicated solely to the court notice — it also publishes acts from other institutions:

Saeima announcement regarding the participation of the National Armed Forces of Latvia in international operations in the Strait of Hormuz.
Saeima verbatim record of the continuation of the session of September 10, 2026, on September 17, and the verbatim record of the session of September 17.
Cabinet of Ministers regulations No. 573 (amendments to regulations No. 635 “Regulations on Limited Radio Frequency Bands” of October 11, 2022) and No. 574 (amendments to regulations No. 3 “National Radio Frequency Plan” of January 10, 2023).
Cabinet of Ministers orders No. 571, No. 572, No. 573, No. 574, and No. 579 regarding the self-approval of projects for specific support objective 1.3.1 of the European Union cohesion policy program for 2021–2027.
Prime Minister’s orders No. 2026/1.2.1.-291, No. 2026/1.2.1.-292, and No. 2026/1.2.1.-293 regarding the granting of leave and business trips.

Where to find full information

The document vestnesis-2026-09-25-185.full.md available in the corpus contains the table of contents for the respective issue, including the entry for case No. 2026-16-0103. The full text of the court announcement is published in issue No. 185 with the official reference OP 2026/185; this is the document to be relied upon to clarify the parties to the case, the contested norm, and the course of the proceedings.

Why it is important

The initiation of a case in the Constitutional Court is the moment when a constitutional dispute enters the court’s agenda, and from this moment, the proceedings take place in a publicly registered case with its own number. The publication of the announcement in Latvijas Vēstnesis is the official way for institutions, courts, and residents to find out about it; therefore, the entry in issue No. 185 is the first public reporting point in case No. 2026-16-0103. The court’s outcome may affect the application of the relevant legal norms and the practice of state institutions, therefore the case must be followed in subsequent court publications.

Official source: Latvijas Vēstnesis, September 25, 2026, No. 185, official reference OP 2026/185, section “CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS”, subsection “Constitutional Court”, entry No. 14 “Regarding the initiation of case No. 2026-16-0103 — Constitutional Court information”. Public reference: https://www.vestnesis.lv/url/16985?content=1. Document: vestnesis-2026-09-25-185.full.md.