Critique of two decicions of Constitutional Court of the Republic of Srpska / Kritika dvije odluke Ustavnog suda Republike Srpske

Abstract

The subject of this paper are two decisions of Constitutional Court of the Republic of Srpska which set in motion not only the question of constitutionality of one statute from the area of social insurance, but the questions of internal morality of the state and law as well. Beginning part of the paper is preceding to introduction into that problem, and in the beginning part the author, by the example from the judicial practice, point out an unconstitutional practice due to which in the area of social insurance is infringed the right on property by inactivity of competent organs of public authority. The infringement of the same right is caused by statute provisions analised in the paper. It is word on provisions of the Law on social insurance in the Republic of Srpska, by which is prescribed that the pensions will be determined again for some of beneficiaries, what in practice means that their pensions will be decreased, and that for some of other beneficiaries it will not be done. This unconstitutional behaviour of legislator, due to which the right on property and equality before the law are infringed, are tried to be resolved by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Srpska in its two decisions by opinion according to which it is a matter of policy of legislator and suitability to prescribe whether the pensions will be determined again for all or for some beneficiaries. This opinion is exposed to the criticism in the paper.