The decision of the Constitutional Court will not be published in the Official Gazette even today

Even today, the Official Gazette cannot publish the decision of the Constitutional Court to abolish the provision of Article 17 paragraph 1 of the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance (PIO) for technical reasons, because they received a large number of documents marked as urgent.

Acts marked as urgent must be published within 48 hours, and the decision of the Constitutional Court does not have such a mark and, for technical reasons, cannot be included in today's issue. Earlier it was announced that the decision would be announced on Monday

This decision of the Constitutional Court enters into force from the day of its publication, so that from the day following the publication, the provision according to which women could retire at the age of 64 and men at the age of 66, if they had a minimum of 15 years of service, will not be valid. The Constitutional Court made a decision stating that men are discriminated against by this norm. The initiative for the review of constitutionality was submitted by the Judicial Council at the proposal of the Association of Judges, because female judges at the age of 64 and male judges at the age of 66 cease to hold office.

Now, the only condition for pension for all citizens will be a full 40 years of insurance experience, until new changes to the law are made.

The Constitutional Court ordered the Government to adopt a new text of the law within 30 days, which must be in accordance with the Court's assessment that women must not be positively discriminated against in relation to men.

With this new proposal, the Government could return the decision to retire with a minimum of 15 years of service, but for men and women to be equal in terms of the number of required years of life, or to state a different explanation why women should have a more privileged status.