Participants at the workshop on ‘Property offences’ Armenia
For the Republic of Armenia, reforming its criminal law is one of the key priorities on the path towards a modern justice system. Against this backdrop, we organised a high-level expert event on property offences at the Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office. Our focus was on the current challenges in the field of virtual property offences: a subject area which, as is well known, is becoming increasingly important due to advancing digitalisation.
Not least thanks to the illustrative case studies presented by Senior Public Prosecutor Dr Nino Goldbeck (Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office and Bavarian Cybercrime Centre) and Public Prosecutor Carlo Schmidt (Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office and North Rhine-Westphalia Central Office for the Prosecution of Terrorism ‘ZenTer NRW’), there were intensive discussions on how to tackle virtual property offences. At the same time, consideration was given to what measures and strategies could be adopted to mitigate the impact on victims – an aspect that is often neglected.
Meri Navasardyan, Managing Director of the German Economic Association Armenia (left); Dr Markus J. Weyer, Managin Director WEYER Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (3rd from left); Dr Christian Groß, in-house lawyer and Managing Director of the Arbitration Court of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGH) (4th from left); Tanja Galander, Lawyer and Partner, GvW Graf von Westphalen (2nd from left).Copyright DWV Armenia
Commercial law issues are once again gaining in importance in IRZ measures in our partner countries.
One example of this is the conference held in Armenia in December, which dealt with the topics of international arbitration, export and import contracts, and the protection of foreign investments.
In addition to German experts from the business sector, the German Business Association in Armenia (DWV) also participated as an official partner of the AHK on site and as a representative of the interests of German business.
Overall, the symposium contributed to strengthening mutual understanding of civil and commercial law, particularly against the backdrop of traditionally good German-Armenian trade relations. Consultations to support the Armenian economy and Armenian commercial law are therefore to be continued in the coming year.
From left to right: Lilit Muradyan, resident of the Notarial Chamber of the Republic of Armenia; Dr Lovro Tomasic representative of the Federal Chamber of Notaries for International Affairs; Tatiana Bovkun, IRZ-Head of Section Armenia
We would like to thank Dr Lovro Tomasic, representative of the Federal Chamber of Notaries for International Affairs and member of the Executive Board and the working group ‘International Organisations’ of the International Union of Notaries (UINL), as well as member of the Board of Trustees of IRZ, for a highly successful event on 25/26 October 2025 in Artavaz.
The seminar on the application of conflict-of-law rules in notarial practice and the role of notaries in real estate transactions, with special consideration given to anti-money laundering obligations, took place in the remote region of Kotayk so that as many participants as possible from the regions of Armenia could attend. This enabled the IRZ to facilitate the participation of 60 notaries from nine of Armenia's ten regions and Yerevan, as well as three employees of the Armenian Ministry of Justice.
IRZ has been working with the Armenian Chamber of Notaries since 2011, with the support of the Federal Chamber of Notaries. The President of the Notarial Chamber of the Republic of Armenia, Lilit Muradyan, therefore reported on the latest developments and reforms in the notarial system in Armenia. As Armenian inheritance law is to be reformed and German law is to serve as a model, the discussion was particularly stimulating.
