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The official publication of the Republic of Latvia, Latvijas Vēstnesis, on November 10, 2026, No. 217 (OP 2026/217), published a judgment of the Constitutional Court evaluating the compliance of subparagraph “b” of point 2 of the first part of Article 4.15 of the law “On the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia” with Article 96 of the Constitution. In the contents of the publication, the judgment is included in the section “CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS” under sequence number 5. The publication serves as the official reference, making the decision known to every user of the commercial register data.

Article 96 of the Constitution guarantees the inviolability of private life, and it is the legal norm against which the Constitutional Court this time evaluated the regulation of the Register of Enterprises law. The subject of the review is formulated precisely in the contents of the publication: a single subparagraph is contested — subparagraph “b” of point 2 of the first part of Article 4.15 —, not the entire article or the law as a whole. This circumstance is essential: the court’s assessment relates to the specific volume of information that the register includes in publicly available information.

Norm and Issuing Body

The issuer of the norm is the Saeima, and it regulates the operation of the Register of Enterprises, including the scope of information regarding companies and their officials that enters the public domain. The case has reached a judgment, meaning that the Constitutional Court has examined the case on its merits — in the publication, it is published as a judgment, rather than as information on the initiation of the case or a decision to reject the application.

Place of Publication and Official Reference

Publication: Latvijas Vēstnesis, November 10, 2026, No. 217 (OP 2026/217).
Publication position: sequence number 5, section “CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS”.
Institution: Constitutional Court, document type — judgment of the Constitutional Court.
Public reference: www.vestnesis.lv/url/17028.

In the contents of the publication, the case is identified by the contested norm rather than by the case number; the full text of the judgment and its operative part are available in the official publication at the mentioned reference.

Four Judgments Published in the Autumn Quarter

Publications of Constitutional Court judgments have been regular this autumn — since the end of September, four judgments have been published in the official publication:

September 29, 2026 (OP 2026/187) — on the compliance of point 4 of Article 6 of the Psychologist Law with the first sentence of Article 106 of the Constitution.
October 2, 2026 (OP 2026/190) — on the compliance of the norms of the law on the discharge of debt obligations of a natural person with Article 1 of the Constitution and the first three sentences of Article 105.
October 19, 2026 (OP 2026/201) — on the compliance of point 2 of binding regulation No. 35 of the Daugavpils State City Municipality Council with the first three sentences of Article 105 of the Constitution.
November 10, 2026 (OP 2026/217) — on the compliance of subparagraph “b” of point 2 of the first part of Article 4.15 of the Register of Enterprises law with Article 96 of the Constitution.

During the same period, the court also published several notices regarding the initiation of cases, including cases No. 2026-17-03, 2026-18-01, 2026-19-0103, 2026-20-0103, 2026-21-01, and 2026-22-0103, testifying to a dense autumn session work schedule.

The Commercial Register news flow continues

The volume of notices from the Register of Enterprises in the publication has not decreased: 7 register notices were published in the November 10 issue, 8 in the November 9 issue, and 17 notices in the November 4 issue (OP 2026/213). This means that the publication of the judgment does not stop the flow of data, but may instead change which notices are recorded and published in the future.

The judgment affects not only entrepreneurs but also persons whose names and positions appear in the public notices of the commercial register — shareholders, board and council members, as well as other officials. The practical impact also extends to third parties who use commercial registers to verify business partners and assess credit risk.

Impact on future practice

The decision is significant in that, for the first time in a series of autumn judgments, the Constitutional Court has directly evaluated the publication of register data against the right to privacy — until now, published judgments concerned binding regulations of local governments, the Law on Psychologists, and the regulation of debt obligations. The court’s assessment becomes the criterion by which the limit of the commercial register’s openness is henceforth measured, and the basis that can be referenced both in lawsuits and in future decisions by the Register of Enterprises and the Saeima regarding the volume of notices.

CONCLUSION: The publication of the judgment OP 2026/217 means that anyone whose data is included in the Register of Enterprises notices, as well as any user of commercial register data, henceforth operates within a regulation whose content has been determined by the Constitutional Court, and that the discussion on the scope of data publication has moved from administrative practice to the level of constitutional review.

Official source: Latvijas Vēstnesis, November 10, 2026, No. 217, OP 2026/217, section “CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS”, doc. No. 5 — Judgment of the Constitutional Court “On the compliance of subparagraph ‘b’ of point 2 of the first part of Article 4.15 of the Law ‘On the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia’ with Article 96 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia”. Public reference: www.vestnesis.lv/url/17028.