Text consolidated by Valsts valodas centrs (State
Language Centre) with amending laws of:
26 November 2003 [shall
come into force on 1 December 2003];
20 May 2004 [shall come into force on 1 January
2005];
11 May 2006 [shall come into force on 13 June
2006];
2 November 2006 [shall come into force on 1 January
2007];
16 September 2010 [shall come into force on 19 October
2010];
19 December 2019 [shall come into force on 13 January
2020];
20 May 2021 [shall come into force on 15 June
2021];
6 October 2022 [shall come into force on 3 November
2022].
If a whole or part of a section has been amended, the
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The Saeima1 has adopted and
the President has proclaimed the following law:
Mobilisation
Law
Chapter I
General Provisions
Section 1. Terms Used in this
Law
The following terms are used in this Law:
1) mobilisation - purposefully planned and prepared
State military and civil defence measures for the prevention of
endangerment to the State or the eradication of consequences
thereof by utilising specific human, material and financial
resources;
2) mobilisation request - a document in which a request
for mobilisation has been expressed, the mobilisation task and
duty has been stated and which expresses the needs of the
National Armed Forces and the State civil defence system for
mobilisation resources in case of endangerment to the State;
3) deferred supplies - goods, materials and services
the necessity of which is previously planned and regarding the
supply and provision of which relevant contracts are entered
into, but which are actually received only in case of
mobilisation;
4) defence industry - merchants and scientific
institutions that are engaged in the development, production,
improvement, storage, transportation, technical maintenance,
repair, or disposal of military or dual-use technologies or items
and also provide services related to such activities;
5) defence industry development support - a set of
well-targeted and organised development support measures at
national and international level which are taken to extend the
base of mobilisation resources and which are applicable in the
defence industry to activities such as applied research,
knowledge transfer, development, testing and putting into
production of new technologies or products, and also promotion of
export capacity, international cooperation and recognition;
6) security of supply - a guarantee of supply in
respect of the supply of material and technical stock or services
necessary for the National Armed Forces within the scope of which
a possibility of third party intervention is reduced to the
maximum possible extent and which is necessary to ensure
performance of the tasks entrusted to the National Armed Forces
in accordance with this Law and other national laws and
regulations or international commitments of the Republic of
Latvia.
[20 May 2004; 19 December 2019]
Section 2. Purpose of the Law
The purpose of the Law is as follows:
1) specify the legal and organisational grounds for the
preparation and implementation of the mobilisation of the
National Armed Forces and the State civil defence system, the
duties and responsibility of State and local government
institutions, legal persons governed by private law, and also
natural persons regarding mobilisation matters;
2) promote targeted and coordinated extension of the basis of
mobilisation resources and also the security of supply of
material and technical stock and services necessary for the
performance of the tasks of the National Armed Forces by
facilitating the implementation of appropriate defence industry
development support measures.
[19 December 2019]
Section 3. Resources and Types of
Mobilisation
(1) Mobilisation shall comprise the National Armed Forces, the
State civil defence system and the national economy.
(2) Citizens and non-citizens of Latvia (hereinafter - the
residents), material and financial resources of the State (also
resources situated in foreign states), local governments and
legal persons governed by private law shall form the mobilisation
resources. If necessary, material resources owned by residents
may also be used as mobilisation resources.
(3) Types of mobilisation shall be as follows:
1) general mobilisation shall be announced in the state of
emergency or in the event of war by involving all the
mobilisation resources and using them for the needs of State
defence in the amount specified in mobilisation plans;
2) partial mobilisation shall be announced in a state of
emergency or exceptional state by limited involvement of the
mobilisation resources for the prevention of endangerment to the
State or the eradication of the consequences thereof;
3) local mobilisation shall be announced in a state of
emergency situation in a specified administrative territory;
4) mobilisation of national guardsmen and reserve soldiers
shall be announced in order to ensure the performance of the
tasks specified in the State Defence Plan and the State Defence
Operational Plan.
[11 May 2006; 19 December 2019; 20 May 2021]
Section 4. Preparation and
Implementation of Mobilisation
(1) Mobilisation shall be prepared and implemented in
accordance with the National Security Law, this Law and the
regulatory enactments of the Cabinet.
(2) Preparation of mobilisation shall include:
1) development of laws and regulations governing
mobilisation;
2) development of the mobilisation plan and other documents
stipulated by the Cabinet;
3) preparation of the mobilisation management system for work
in case of mobilisation;
4) preparation of State and local government institutions for
work in case of mobilisation;
5) preparation of the National Armed Forces and civil defence
units for mobilisation;
6) establishment of the mobilisation resources necessary for
the mobilisation of the National Armed Forces and civil defence
units;
7) establishment, accumulation, maintenance and renewal of
State material reserves;
8) preparation of the catastrophe medicine system, emergency
medical assistance and medicinal product provision system for
work in case of mobilisation;
9) preparation of the mass media for work in case of
mobilisation;
10) examinations of mobilisation readiness and mobilisation
training;
11) training and qualification improvement of mobilisation
experts;
12) international co-operation regarding mobilisation planning
and preparation matters;
13) development of the policy for defence industry development
support;
14) development of the laws and regulations governing the
defence industry development support;
15) preparation and implementation of measures for the defence
industry development support;
16) subjecting a national guardsman to increased readiness
regime.
(3) Implementation of mobilisation shall include:
1) reorganisation of State and local government institutions
for work in case of endangerment to the State;
2) mobilisation of the National Armed Forces and civil defence
units;
3) measures for the re-orientation of the national economy
from the circumstances of peacetime to work in case of
endangerment to the State;
4) rationed supply of residents with food, industrial and
medical goods, provision of emergency medical assistance,
communications, transport and other services in case of
endangerment to the State;
5) provision of the National Armed Forces, the State Fire and
Rescue Service, the State Police, the State Border Guard, the
State Emergency Medical Service, and civil defence units to be
mobilised with energy resources in case of endangerment to the
State;
6) ensuring work of the mass media in case of endangerment to
the State.
[11 May 2006; 16 September 2010; 19 December 2019; 6
October 2022]
Section 5. International
Co-operation in Mobilisation Matters
The Republic of Latvia shall implement international
co-operation in mobilisation matters on the basis of generally
accepted international principles of security and defence of the
State and people in compliance with international agreements and
other international regulatory enactments.
Chapter
II
Mobilisation Management, Mobilisation Announcement and
Demobilisation
Section 6. Mobilisation Management
System
(1) The mobilisation management system is an integral part of
the State defence management system.
(2) The mobilisation management system shall ensure the
management of mobilisation of the National Armed Forces, State
civil defence system and national economy in case of endangerment
to the State.
(3) The mobilisation management system shall consist of three
levels:
1) the State level;
2) the level of the National Armed Forces and civil defence
system;
3) the level of local governments.
[20 May 2004]
Section 7. Mobilisation Management
Structure
(1) Mobilisation units may be established or mobilisation
workers shall be assigned for the planning, preparation and
implementation of mobilisation in State and local government
institutions.
(2) The Cabinet shall determine the tasks, authorisations and
duties of officials of the State and local government
institutions, mobilisation units and mobilisation workers
involved in the planning, preparation and implementation of
mobilisation, as well as the principles of operation in peacetime
and in case of endangerment to the State.
[20 May 2004; 11 May 2006]
Section 8. Announcement of
Mobilisation or Demobilisation
(1) The Cabinet shall take a decision to announce mobilisation
or demobilisation and shall announce mobilisation or
demobilisation. If the Prime Minister determines that the Cabinet
cannot meet within an hour in order to take a decision to
announce mobilisation and to announce mobilisation, he or she
shall take a decision to announce mobilisation and shall announce
mobilisation.
(2) Mobilisation shall be announced by utilising all types of
means of communications and mass media.
(3) The Prime Minister shall notify the Saeima in
writing regarding the announcement of mobilisation or
demobilisation within twenty-four hours.
Chapter
III
Regulation of Planning, Preparation and Implementation of
Mobilisation, Competence of State and Local Government
Institutions in Mobilisation Matters
[11 May 2006]
Section 9. Regulation of Planning,
Preparation and Implementation of Mobilisation
In order to regulate the planning, preparation and
implementation of mobilisation, the Cabinet shall issue the
following regulations:
1) [20 May 2021];
2) regarding the procedures for the establishment of civil
defence units to be mobilised and financing thereof, by
determining:
a) the civil defence units to be mobilised, tasks and the
material and technical facilities thereof, as well as the
material and technical facilities for the civil defence units
within the scope of the competence of ministries,
b) the provision and organisation of training;
c) the procedures for the financing of the establishment and
development of civil defence units to be mobilised,
d) the procedures for mobilisation in case of endangerment to
the State,
e) the tasks and obligations of State and local government
institutions and legal persons governed by private law in case of
mobilisation of civil defence units;
3) regarding the institutional structures necessary for
mobilisation, the planning and utilising of material and
financial resources, by determining:
a) the units in State and local government institutions
necessary for the planning, preparation and implementation of
mobilisation, their tasks and duties,
b) the procedures for the planning and utilisation of the
material and financial resources necessary for mobilisation,
c) the tasks and duties of State and local government
institutions and legal persons governed by private law in the
planning and utilisation of the material and financial resources
necessary for mobilisation;
4) regarding mobilisation plans, by determining:
a) the mobilisation plans and planning system,
b) the scope of mobilisation planning in State and local
government institutions and the procedures for the co-ordination
of planning,
c) the procedures for the approval and clarification of
mobilisation plans,
d) the samples of document forms of the mobilisation
plans;
5) regarding deferred supplies, determining:
a) the type of material resources and services for the needs
of deferred supplies,
b) the procedures for the planning and fulfilment of deferred
supplies;
6) regarding provision of residents with food in case of
endangerment to the State, by determining:
a) the norms for the provision of residents with food in case
of endangerment to the State,
b) the procedures for the planning of provision with food, as
well as issuance and control of issuance of food in the
State,
c) the tasks and duties of State and local government
institutions in provision of residents with food in case of
endangerment to the State;
61) the norms for the provision of residents with
essential goods in case of endangerment to the State, by
determining:
a) the essential goods, with which residents must be ensured
in case of endangerment to the State,
b) the procedures for the planning of provision with essential
goods, as well as issuance and control of issuance of essential
goods in the State,
c) the tasks and duties of State and local government
institutions in provision of residents with essential goods;
7) the provision of the National Armed Forces, the State Fire
and Rescue Service, the State Police, the State Border Guard, the
State Emergency Medical Service, and civil defence units to be
mobilised with energy resources in case of endangerment to the
State, by determining:
a) the procedures for the supply with gas and electricity,
b) the amount of fuel reserves, the procedures for the
establishment, maintenance and renewal thereof,
c) the procedures for the planning, fulfilment and control of
fulfilment of mobilisation requests for provision with fuel,
d) the tasks and duties of State and local government
institutions in provision of the National Armed Forces, the State
Fire and Rescue Service, the State Police, the State Border
Guard, the State Emergency Medical Service, and civil defence
units to be mobilised with fuel;
8) [20 May 2004];
9) regarding the provision of emergency medical assistance and
counter-epidemic measures, the preparation and work of a medical
product provision system in case of endangerment to the State, by
determining:
a) the amount of emergency medical assistance to residents and
soldiers of the National Armed Forces and the organisation of
provision thereof,
b) the procedures for the planning and carrying out of
counter-epidemic measures,
c) the procedures for the preparation and work of the
medicinal product provision system in case of endangerment to the
State,
d) the tasks and duties of State, local government and private
medical institutions in provision of emergency medical assistance
and carrying out of the counter-epidemic measures in case of
endangerment to the State;
10) regarding the operation of hydro-meteorological services
in case of endangerment to the State, by determining:
a) the planning of the work of hydro-meteorological
services,
b) the work procedures of hydro-meteorological services in
case of endangerment to the State;
11) regarding mobilisation requests, by determining:
a) the planning procedures of mobilisation requests,
b) the procedures for the achievement of the task specified in
the mobilisation request and the performance control,
c) the procedures for the calculation of costs and losses
caused in connection with the fulfilment of the mobilisation
request, as well as for the payment of compensation for costs and
losses,
d) the procedures by which the lawfulness of the determination
of the mobilisation request shall be provided,
e) the samples of document forms of the mobilisation
request;
12) regarding the guaranteeing the work of the post office,
radio, television and other mass media in case of endangerment to
the State, by determining:
a) the procedures for the ensuring of continuous work of the
post office in case of endangerment to the State,
b) the procedures for the guaranteeing the continuous work of
the radio, television and other mass media in case of
endangerment to the State;
13) regarding examinations of mobilisation readiness and
mobilisation training, by determining:
a) the planning, preparation and procedural requirements of
examinations of mobilisation readiness and mobilisation
training;
b) the criteria for the evaluation of the results of
mobilisation readiness examinations and mobilisation
training,
c) the samples of document forms of the examinations of
mobilisation readiness and mobilisation training plans,
d) the norms of national economy resources to be involved in
the mobilisation training;
14) regarding the procedures by which the Ministry of Defence
conducts project competitions for development support of military
or dual-use items by prescribing the following:
a) the procedures for preparing and announcing grant
projects;
b) the procedures for evaluating project applications and
taking decisions on winners of competitions;
c) the procedures for awarding aid and ensuring control in
respect of the use of the provided aid according to the intended
purposes.
[20 May 2004; 11 May 2006; 16 September 2010; 19 December
2019; 20 May 2021]
Section 10. Competence of State and
Local Government Institutions in Mobilisation Matters
(1) The competence of State and local government institutions
in mobilisation matters is specified as follows:
1) the Cabinet shall coordinate the operation of the
mobilisation system in case of endangerment to the State;
2) the Ministry of Defence shall plan, prepare and manage the
mobilisation of the National Armed Forces in case of endangerment
to the State;
3) the Ministry of Interior shall plan, prepare and manage the
mobilisation of the civil defence units in case of endangerment
to the State;
4) the Ministry of Economics shall plan, prepare and manage
the mobilisation of the national economy in case of endangerment
to the State.
(2) The Cabinet shall determine the competence of other State
and local government institutions involved in the planning,
preparation and implementation of the mobilisation of the
National Armed Forces, the civil defence units and the national
economy sectors.
[11 May 2006; 20 May 2021]
Section 10.1 Cooperation
with Non-governmental Organisations of the Defence Industry
(1) In developing and implementing the policy for defence
industry development support, the Ministry of Defence shall
consult with non-governmental organisations of the defence
industry. The non-governmental organisation of the defence
industry comprising merchants and scientific institutions with
the largest number of employees shall appoint their
representatives to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) Industrial Advisory Group.
(2) A person who corresponds to the requirements laid down in
the law for receipt of a special permit for access to an official
secret may be appointed as a representative to join the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Industrial Advisory Group.
Where necessary, the representative of the non-governmental
organisation of the defence industry who has been appointed to
cooperate with the Ministry of Defence shall also receive a
special permit for access to an official secret. The special
permit for access to an official secret shall be issued in
accordance with the procedures laid down in the law On Official
Secret.
[19 December 2019]
Chapter
IV
Duties of State and Local Government Institutions, Legal Persons
Governed by Private Law, and Residents in Preparation and
Implementation of Mobilisation
[11 May 2006]
Section 11. Duties of State and
Local Government Institutions and Legal Persons Governed by
Private Law
(1) State and local government institutions and legal persons
governed by private law, to which mobilisation requests are
specified, have the following duties:
1) to fulfil the mobilisation requests;
2) to develop mobilisation plans in conformity with their
competence.
(2) In case of the announcement of mobilisation, when
fulfilling the mobilisation requests, State and local government
institutions and legal persons governed by private law have a
duty to transfer the property specified in the mobilisation
request to the holding of the National Armed Forces and civil
defence units. The abovementioned property shall be returned to
the owner thereof after the announcement of demobilisation. The
actual losses caused to the property shall be compensated to the
owner. The Cabinet shall determine the procedures for the payment
of the compensation for losses after the announcement of
demobilisation.
(3) Legal persons governed by private law have no right to
refuse to fulfil the requests of mobilisation if such requests
conform to the relevant profile of activities or if conversion of
activities is possible. Expenditures and losses caused while
fulfilling the mobilisation requests shall be covered from the
State budget in accordance with the procedures stipulated by the
Cabinet.
(4) State and local government institutions, as well as legal
persons governed by private law have a duty to provide
information necessary for the planning of mobilisation.
[20 May 2004; 11 May 2006]
Section 12. Duties of Residents
(1) Residents have the following duties:
1) in the event of mobilisation to perform that determined in
the summons issued by the structural units for the record of the
National Armed Forces' reserve;
2) to implement the orders of a local government in the
relevant administrative territory in case of mobilisation of the
State civil defence system.
(2) In case of the announcement of mobilisation, when
implementing the mobilisation requests, residents have a duty to
transfer the property specified in the mobilisation request to
the holding of the National Armed Forces and civil defence units.
The referred to property shall be returned to the owner thereof
or (in case of the death of the owner) his or her heirs after the
announcement of demobilisation. The actual losses caused to the
property shall be compensated to the owner or (in case of death
of the owner) his or her heirs. The Cabinet shall determine the
procedures for the payment of the compensation for losses after
the announcement of demobilisation.
[2 November 2006]
Chapter V
Mobilisation of Residents
Section 13. Conscription of Citizens
into Active Service
The conscription of Latvian citizens - reserve soldiers and
reservists - into the active service in case of mobilisation
shall take place in accordance with the Military Service Law
according to procedures stipulated by the Cabinet. The
mobilisation of national guardsmen shall take place in accordance
with the procedures laid down in the National Guard of the
Republic of Latvia Law.
[20 May 2021 / The new wording of the Section shall come
into force on 3 November 2022. See Transitional
Provisions]
Section 14. Mobilisation of
Residents in Civil Defence Units and for Implementation of Civil
Defence Measures
(1) Residents who are not subject to mobilisation in the
National Armed Forces and the State Border Guard in accordance
with the mobilisation task shall be subject to mobilisation in
the civil defence units and for the implementation of civil
defence measures. The persons referred to in Section
14.1, Paragraphs one and two shall not be subject to
mobilisation.
(2) Residents capable of work from individual trades and
professions in conformity with the profile of the unit's
operations shall be subject to mobilisation in civil defence
units.
(3) [20 May 2004]
[20 May 2004; 20 May 2021]
Section 14.1 Exceptions
to the Conscription of Citizens into Active Service and
Mobilisation of Residents in Civil Defence Units and
Implementation of Civil Defence Measures
(1) The following persons shall not be subject to the
mobilisation referred to in Sections 13 and 14 of this Law:
1) the President and an official of the Chancery of the
President;
2) a member of the Saeima;
3) the Secretary General of the Saeima Administration
and an official specified by the Presidium of the
Saeima;
4) a Member of the European Parliament;
5) a European Commissioner;
6) a member of the Cabinet;
7) a State Secretary of a ministry;
8) the Director of the State Chancellery;
9) the Director General of the State Revenue Service;
10) the Treasurer;
11) the Ombudsman;
12) the President, Vice-president, and a member of the Council
of Latvijas Banka;
13) the Auditor General and a member of the Council of the
State Audit Office;
14) the Chairperson and a member of the Council of the
Financial and Capital Market Commission;
15) the Chairperson, the Vice-chairperson, and a member of the
National Electronic Mass Media Council;
16) the Chairperson and a member of the Council of the Public
Utilities Commission;
17) a judge of the Constitutional Court;
18) a judge of the Supreme Court;
19) a judge of a regional court;
20) a judge of a district (city) court;
21) the Prosecutor General and a prosecutor assigned to a
military court;
22) an advocate assigned to a military court;
23) an official with special service ranks and an employee of
the institutions of the system of the Ministry of the Interior
and the Prisons Administration;
24) an official and an employee of a State security
institution;
25) an employee of diplomatic and consular missions of the
Republic of Latvia abroad;
26) a member of a local government;
27) an executive director of a local government;
28) an employee of local government police;
29) an employee of port police;
30) an official and an employee of the Corruption Prevention
and Combating Bureau.
(2) Depending on the type, intensity, and nature of
endangerment to the State, the Cabinet may decide to apply the
exceptions to mobilisation to other officials, employees of State
and local government authorities, or officials and employees of
bodies governed by public and private law that are involved in
the implementation of measures for overcoming endangerment to the
State or ensure continuity of operation of critical
infrastructure or critical financial services.
(3) The Cabinet shall lay down the procedures for applying the
exceptions to the conscription of citizens into active service
and mobilisation of residents in civil defence units and
implementation of civil defence measures to the persons referred
to in Paragraph two of this Section, and also the procedures for
informing the structural unit for the record of reserve of the
National Armed Forces of the persons referred to in Paragraphs
one and two of this Section.
[20 May 2021]
Chapter
VI
Examinations of Mobilisation Readiness and Mobilisation
Training
Section 15. Examinations of
Mobilisation Readiness
(1) In order to determine the readiness of State and local
government institutions, the National Armed Forces, civil defence
system and national economy for mobilisation, examinations of
mobilisation readiness shall be planned and organised without the
announcement of mobilisation.
(2) The following have the right to examine mobilisation
readiness:
1) the Prime Minister - in the whole territory of the State or
a part thereof;
2) ministers (State ministers) - in the institutions
subordinate thereto, in commercial companies, and in the
institutions included in the mobilisation plans of the relevant
sector, as well as the mobilisation readiness of legal persons
governed by private law;
3) the heads of local governments - in the institutions of the
relevant local government, as well as the mobilisation readiness
of legal persons governed by private law that are included in the
mobilisation plans of the administrative territory of the local
government.
[11 May 2006]
Section 16. Mobilisation
Training
(1) In order to prepare for mobilisation and to train the
personnel involved in the implementation of mobilisation,
mobilisation training shall be planned and organised.
(2) The planning and organisation of mobilisation training is
within the competence of ministries and local governments, as
well as other institutions stipulated by the Cabinet.
(3) The Cabinet shall issue an order on a 72-hour combat
readiness examination, determining a time period for the
organisation thereof which does not exceed 30 days.
[11 May 2006; 6 October 2022]
Section 17. Compensation for
Losses
Losses caused to State and local government institutions that
are subject to the examination of mobilisation readiness or are
involved in mobilisation training, to the legal persons governed
by private law, as well as to residents shall be covered from the
State budget in accordance with the procedures and in the amount
stipulated by the Cabinet.
[11 May 2006]
Chapter
VII
Liability for Violations of This Law
Section 18. Liability for Violations
of This Law
For avoiding mobilisation, intentional hindering of
mobilisation operations and intentional failure to fulfil the
mobilisation requests the persons at fault shall be held liable
in accordance with law.
Transitional
Provision
[20 May 2021]
Amendment to Section 13 of this Law regarding the new wording
thereof shall enter into force concurrently with the amendments
to the National Guard of the Republic of Latvia Law which provide
for the procedures for mobilisation of national guardsmen.
[20 May 2021]
The Law shall come into force on 1 January 2005.
[26 November 2003]
The Law has been adopted by the Saeima on 30 May
2002.
Acting for the President, Chairperson of
the Saeima J. Straume
Rīga, 18 June 2002
1The Parliament of the Republic of
Latvia
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