A source-led starting point
This index brings together selected sources used in the Latvia guides. Some links lead to an individual law; others lead to an official collection, court or regulator. It is a research starting point, not an exhaustive or certified consolidation of every applicable rule.
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Legislation, courts & regulators
Administrative Procedure Law — Likumi.lv
Covers administrative decisions, procedural legality and review; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Arbitration Law — Likumi.lv
Covers Latvian arbitration institutions, arbitrators and proceedings; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Civil Law — Likumi.lv
Covers property, obligations, family and inheritance; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Civil Procedure Law — Likumi.lv
Covers civil claims, procedural requirements and execution; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Commercial Law — Likumi.lv
Covers merchant status, commercial companies and corporate transactions; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Competition Council — merger control
Provides merger-notification information, case materials and pre-notification consultation access.
Open the legal source ↗Competition Law — Likumi.lv
Covers restrictive agreements, dominance, mergers and competition enforcement; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Construction Law — Likumi.lv
Covers building permits, construction processes and participant responsibilities; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Consumer Rights Protection Law — Likumi.lv
Covers consumer contracts, goods, services and digital-content protection; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Criminal Procedure Law — Likumi.lv
Covers criminal investigation and court procedure; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗European Commission — navigating the AI Act
Explains AI Act roles, scope and phased application, including changes to the implementation timetable.
Open the legal source ↗European e-Justice — Latvian divorce
Explains court and notarial divorce and the importance of agreement on children and joint property.
Open the legal source ↗European e-Justice — Latvian succession authorities
Explains succession information available to competent notaries and European Certificate of Succession authorities.
Open the legal source ↗Financial Intelligence Unit — sanctions search
Provides information on UN, EU and Latvian sanctions designations and related screening resources.
Open the legal source ↗Insolvency Control Service — legal protection process
Explains formal legal-protection procedures for restoring a debtor's ability to meet obligations.
Open the legal source ↗Labour Law — Likumi.lv
Covers employment contracts, employee protections and labour relations; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Latvian Ship Register — registration application
Identifies documents and vessel particulars for registration, ownership change and bareboat arrangements.
Open the legal source ↗Latvijas Banka — financial-market supervision
Explains the central bank's supervision of financial-market participants and protection of depositors, investors and insured persons.
Open the legal source ↗Likumi.lv — official legislation collection
Provides Latvian statutes and translated texts with status and consolidation information.
Open the legal source ↗Mediation Law — Likumi.lv
Covers voluntary mediation, mediator status and settlement processes; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗National Health Service — Treatment Risk Fund
Explains medical-injury redress, Health Inspectorate decisions and National Health Service compensation payments.
Open the legal source ↗National Security Law — Likumi.lv
Covers national-security responsibilities and controls relevant to strategically significant businesses; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs — foreign employment
Explains EU and third-country employment and residence requirements in Latvia.
Open the legal source ↗Patent Office — trade mark applications
Explains Latvian national trade mark filing, electronic submission and registration publication.
Open the legal source ↗Personal Data Processing Law — Likumi.lv
Covers national data-protection provisions and the Data State Inspectorate; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Procurement Monitoring Bureau — complaints
Identifies the public-procurement complaint-review authority and access to complaint records.
Open the legal source ↗Public Procurement Law — Likumi.lv
Covers public purchasing procedures, scope and exceptions; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Public Utilities Commission — energy
Explains the regulator's energy-sector role and cooperation in Baltic electricity regulation.
Open the legal source ↗Register of Enterprises — business forms
Compares Latvian business forms, including the SIA and reduced-equity SIA.
Open the legal source ↗Residential Tenancy Law — Likumi.lv
Covers residential lease rights, obligations and termination; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗Rural Support Service — property records
Explains land-book registration and public reliance on registered property rights and links the national land register.
Open the legal source ↗Spatial Development Planning Law — Likumi.lv
Covers spatial strategies, development programmes and functional zoning; check the operative Latvian text and any amendments omitted from the English translation.
Open the legal source ↗State Revenue Service — corporate income tax
Explains the corporate tax framework and persons within its scope.
Open the legal source ↗Using the sources
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