Zita Kurmina

The State Chancellery is a central public administration institution directly subordinated to the Prime Minister. The State Chancellery comprises Prime Minister’s Office, departments, divisions and individual units set up by the Director of the State Chancellery. The State Chancellery ensures and controls compliance of policy documents and draft legal acts of the Cabinet with the effective requirements; develops and implements policy action plans in various areas and presents opinions on policy documents and legal acts, as well as technically arranges activities of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Missions:
• Adopt a decision on the private submissions, including electronic mail received in the direction of the Prime Minister's Office and departments under the State Chancellery, the contents of the application, including a decision on the examination of emergency;
• Legally assess the Cabinet of Ministers, the Prime Minister and the State Chancellery of individuals submitted requests, complaints, suggestions and questions, and:
o Prepare the Prime Minister and the Director of State Chancellery projects of the resolution and letters;
o Prepare side letters in connection with applications which are forwarded for consideration according to their competence;
o Prepare an informative letter with an explanation of nature, where individual application will be considered under the competence;
o Prepare response letters to individuals under competence of the Communications Department.
• To hear out visitors of Prime Minister, to provide legal advice, to give feedback solution for the problem, to prepare the visitor's oral submissions;
• Provide an informative nature of the advice by the Cabinet and the State Chancellery telephone;
• Redacting a FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on the Office’s website www.mk.gov.lv containing the questions most frequently asked by the population and including the answers
• Controlling the application review process and timing of public institutions under the Prime Minister's Office, as well as the given tasks of the Director of the State Chancellery;
• Provide legal advice to other employees in department;
• If necessary, consult with ministries and other government or local authority practitioners on the matters referred to the submissions;
• After officials and employees of the State Chancellery, as well as the application author's request to provide information on the application review process;
• In isolated cases, to ensure national interests in court under a special resolution of the Prime Minister and the authority of the Director of the State Chancellery;
• In accordance with the regulations of the Department of Communications to fill the Prime Minister's Office, Director of the State Chancellery, Head of Communications Department and others similar content and skill tasks.


Application of the Skills:
• September/2009–December/2009 - French language for public administration workers, Level A.1.1.
• January/2010–May/2010 - French language for public administration workers, Level A.1.2.
• In the work the Document electronic movement and tasks control system (DAUKS) is implemented.

The State Chancellery is a central public administration institution directly subordinated to the Prime Minister. The State Chancellery comprises Prime Minister’s Office, departments, divisions and individual units set up by the Director of the State Chancellery. The State Chancellery ensures and controls compliance of policy documents and draft legal acts of the Cabinet with the effective requirements; develops and implements policy action plans in various areas and presents opinions on policy documents and legal acts, as well as technically arranges activities of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Missions:
· Organize the Department work. Ensure the considering of the physical persons’ and legal entities applications, proposals and claims, addressed to the Cabinet of Ministers, Prime Minister and State chancellery, as well as reception of the visitors.
· Coordinate the flow of the applications, received from the physical persons and legal entities, in the State chancellery.
· Adjudicate the physical persons’ and legal entities applications, draw up the answers and Prime Minister’s assignments in the answering to the applications, control the course of the considering of the applications, proposals and claims in the public authorities and self government institutions in according to the assignments given by the Prime Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, as well as by the State chancellery.

Application of the Skills:
In the work the Document electronic movement and tasks control system (DAUKS) is implemented.

The State Chancellery is a central public administration institution directly subordinated to the Prime Minister. The State Chancellery comprises Prime Minister’s Office, departments, divisions and individual units set up by the Director of the State Chancellery. The State Chancellery ensures and controls compliance of policy documents and draft legal acts of the Cabinet with the effective requirements; develops and implements policy action plans in various areas and presents opinions on policy documents and legal acts, as well as technically arranges activities of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Missions:
· Evaluate according to the contents the physical persons’ and legal entities applications, proposals and claims, addressed to the Cabinet of Ministers, Prime Minister and State Chancellery, prepare suggestions for their flow for the consideration in the Prime Minister’s Office and in the structural units of the State chancellery, direct the letters for the consideration in the public authorities and self-government institutions according to the regulations, stipulated in the normative enactments, as well as to ensure the registration and flow of the applications, proposals and claims, according to the regulations, prescribed by the State Chancellery.
· Organize and to ensure the hearing and consultation of the visitors of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Prime Minister (if necessary, in collaboration with the correspondent structural units and with the civil servants in ministries and in the secretariats of ministers of special assignments), as well as drawing up of the oral statements in the written form.

Application of the Skills:
In the work the Document electronic movement and tasks control system (DAUKS) is implemented.

The Ministry of Justice is the leading State administration institution in the branch of justice, and it is the supreme institution to the subordinate State administration institutions. The ministry is directly subordinated the minister of justice.

The competence of the Law Department of the Ministry of Justice:
· supervise the execution of the administrative process in the ministry and in subordinate institutions;
· elaborate the ministry administration resolution, private rights and public rights agreement, the projects of the legislation's and informative reports, according to the competence of the structural unit;
· execute the prior extra verification of the rule of law of the projects of the resolutions, private rights and public rights agreement;
· coordinate the projects of the ministry internal normative enactments;
· represent the ministry in legal proceedings, in which the ministry is a participant of a case;
· consider and analysis the applications on the activities of the ministry and its subordinate institutions (except the Administration of the Courts, State Court expertise office and the Administration of the Legal assistance) and prepares the projects of the correspondent documents;
· organize the execution of the official inspections and the considering of the disciplinary cases on the activities of the civil servants of the ministry and the heads of the subordinate institutions;
· organize the systematization of the ministry internal normative enactments and the publication of the instructions and recommendation of the ministry in the newspaper “Latvijas Vestnesis”, as well as coordinate the actualization process of the internal normative enactments process.

Missions:
· Consider the applications of the private persons on the administrative acts, issued by the subordinate institutions of the Ministry of Justice, and the actual activities and prepare the projects of the corresponding documents;
· evaluate the references as the higher organization pertaining to the subordinate institutions of the ministry and in a selective order analyze the references, received from the subordinate institutions of the ministry, as well as prepare the references according to the competence of
the department;
· consider and analyze the applications on the activities of the ministry and the subordinate institutions and prepare the projects of the corresponding documents;
· organize the issuing of the identification cards to the politically repressed Latvian citizens living abroad, according to the competence of the ministry prepare opinion on the politically repressed persons and on the national resistance movement participant statuses, the opinions for the self-government institutions on the compliance of the politically repressed persons’ submitted documents, necessary for the receipt of the compensation, with the normative enactments and opinions about the time, spent in the political repressions, as well as to provide assistance to the repressed persons, clarifying their rights, execute the prior extra
verification of the rule of law of the projects of the administrative enactment, prepared by other structural units of the ministry,
· consider the physical persons’ applications on the compensation of the damages caused, in accordance with the law „On the compensation of the damages, caused in result of the illegal or unsubstantiated actions of the inquiry institution, prosecutor’s office or court” and prepare the projects of the corresponding resolutions.

The majority of the companies, in which Belokoni family has invested their means, are known not only in Latvia, but also in the foreign countries. The company “Belokon Holdings” participates in the development of the companies’ strategic plans provides the control in the financial and legal sphere, as well as in the personnel management. The strategy is directed to the investments outside Latvia. This is the pre-condition, which follows from the present economic life – it is impossible to be limited in one territory.

Missions:
· Prepare various kinds of draft contracts, other legal documents - letters, applications, suggestions, complaints, explanations for the court, writs;
· Correction and analysis of the documents;
· Preparation of the legal opinions and provision of consultations in various legal matters;
· Representation of the company in the State administration institutions, in courts and pertaining to the legal and physical persons.

Application of the Skills:
The problems solved in the process of the work were mainly connected with the commercial law sphere. While working in this sphere I learned to draw up different kinds of agreements, letters and other documents, containing the legal information.

In the Republic of Latvia alongside with the legislative and executive power there is the independent judiciary. The judiciary in the Republic of Latvia belongs the courts of districts (city), regional courts, Highest court and Constitution court. In Latvia the justice is administered only by the court. The district (city) court is the first instance for civil cases, criminal cases and administrative cases. An assistant to a judge meets visitors, receives their applications, executes the measurements connected with the preparation of the case for hearing, as well as executes other assignments, set by a judge.

Missions:
· meet visitors;
· teach the secretary of the court hearings and to control his/her work;
· in case of necessity to execute the duties of the secretary of the court hearings;
· prepare a case for hearing;
· provide the normative materials, necessary for the case hearing, including the materials of the court practice;
· give the remarks to the judge on the process of the hearings, if the court proceedings were heard according to the judge’s indication;
· prepare the drafts of the decisions;
· prepare covering letters and letters according to the judge’s instructions;
· check the timely readiness of the materials of the court for passing to the secretariat, for their sending to the appellant or cassation institutions;
· execute statistical registration in the information medium and control its correspondence to the actual state;
· prepare the necessary information about the cases and standards of documents;
· prepare reports and notifications;
· carry out other duties according to the indication of the chairman of the court, assistant to the chairman of the court and judge.

Position rights:
· make decisions for the execution of the responsibilities of my position;
· require and to get the necessary information from the court employees and other organizations for the fulfillment of my functions;
· prepare and to send answers to the statements, for the preparation of which no special legal knowledge is required;
· on the request of process participants prepare and to give out the references, for the preparation of which no special legal knowledge is required;
· prepare the summary on the materials of a case, to offer suggestion on the satisfaction or refusal of the requests of case participants;
· give pointing to the secretary of court hearings and to require its implementation;
· according to the judge’s indication give information to the press.

Application of the Skills:
During the work the Court informative system (TIS) is implemented.

In the Republic of Latvia alongside with the legislative and executive power there is the independent judiciary. The judiciary in the Republic of Latvia belongs the courts of districts (city), regional courts, Highest court and Constitution court. In Latvia the justice is administered only by the court. The district (city) court is the first instance for civil cases, criminal cases and administrative cases. In all the cases when in accordance with the Civil Procedure laws it is necessary to write the court meeting protocol, the secretary of court hearings participates in the court hearing.

Missions:
· prepare a case for hearing according to the requirements of the record keeping instructions;
· summon to the court hearings the process participants, witnesses, public prosecutor, solicitors;
· invite to the court hearing the court assessors; in the criminal cases in the case of the obligatory advocacy - advocates;
· in a case of necessity organize the participation of a translator in a case;
· preparing a case for hearing timely notify an office manager about the foreseeable court charges, which are necessary for the payment of travel expenses of the victims and witnesses;
· compose the list of the cases being heard;
· write court hearings and action hearings protocols;
· prepare and to send informative notifications and other information, which a judge has to send according to the court decisions;
· after the case hearing write out execution inscription;
· after the case hearing register the case and transfer it to the secretariat;
· carry out other duties according to the indication of the chairman of the court, assistant to the chairman of the court, judge and assistant to a judge, office manager.

Position rights:
· make decisions for the execution of the responsibilities of my position;
· require and to get the necessary information from the court employees and other organizations for the fulfillment of my functions.

Application of the Skills:
During the work the Court informative system (TIS) is implemented.