insurance special budget, therefore – the welfare of the whole society, including that of the Applicants. In its previous practice, the Constitutional Court has acknowledged: even if some provisions have been adjudged as unconformable to the Constitution, an instant increase of financial assets disbursable to persons without an opportunity to carry out well-considered measures providing for these disbursements could substantially affect the funds to be disbursed to other persons, encumber the performance of functions of the State institutions and thus impede the discharge of State functions in general (see Paragraph 12 of the Constitutional Court Judgment in the Case No. 2006-13-0103 passed on 4 January 2007). In view of the purpose of the social budget – which is to ensure the sustainability of the pension system as well as to satisfy the public interests in general – a reasonable period of time should be given for the accomplishment of the necessary measures. Therefore, the Constitutional Court has a duty to define the procedure for the enforcement of this Judgment. 35. Article 31, Clause 12 of the Constitutional Court Law provides that, if necessary, “other court decisions” can be included in a Constitutional Court Judgment. Therefore the Constitutional Court is also authorised to settle other substantial matters, so that new infringements of the fundamental rights established by the Constitution would not come about after the invalidation of the impugned provisions and that the withdrawal of the these provisions “from circulation” would not cause disturbance in the legal order (see Paragraph 25 of the Constitutional Court Judgment in the Case No. 200512-0103 passed on 16 December 2005). 35.1. According to substance, Article 31, Clause 12 of the Constitutional Court Law provides for similar rights to those granted to constitutional courts of other countries for ensuring the enforcement of their judgments, namely, authorising the Constitutional Court to decide important legal consequences of its judgments by itself. For example, the law not only grants authorisations to the Constitutional Court but also makes it responsible for its judgments – so that they ensure legal stability, clarity and peacefulness in the public sphere (see Benda E., Klein E. Lehrbuch des Verfassungsprozeßrechts. C.F. Müller Juristischer Verlag Heidelberg, 1991, S.525). The Constitutional Court has already concluded that, within limits, it has to make sure that the situation from the moment of invalidation of the impugned provisions would 70

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