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ARTICLE · 13 JANUARY 2025

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Amendment To The Cyprus Constitution

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The Cyprus Parliament has passed the law allowing for the 19th amendment to the Cyprus Constitution, by way of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution Law of 2024 (L.171(I)/31/12/2024)...

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The Cyprus Parliament has passed the law allowing for the 19th amendment to the Cyprus Constitution, by way of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution Law of 2024 (L.171(I)/31/12/2024), having regognised the absence of various protections to applicable civil and human rights deriving from environmentally related matters, as well as regognising the changes on an international and global scale by which bodies such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe and other international organizations have been regognising the necessity to protect such rights.

Specifically, the said Law has introduced a new Article in the Cyprus Constitution, being Article 7A, which states the following:

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