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Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers has amended a series of regulations to implement a 2025 presidential decree aimed at ensuring the functioning of the State Protection Service, replacing references to the Presidential Security Service across multiple legal acts and repealing one earlier decision.
The changes, adopted under a March 2, 2026 decision signed by Prime Minister Ali Asadov and published on Tuesday, are intended to enforce President Ilham Aliyev’s Aug. 29, 2025 decree No. 491 on measures related to the activities of the State Protection Service.
Under the decision, the Cabinet amended a 2008 resolution approving a list of central and local executive authority buildings around which public gatherings, rallies and marches may be prohibited within a 200-metre radius. In the relevant provisions, references to the “Presidential Security Service” were replaced with the “State Protection Service.”
The amendments also clarify that any further changes to the 2008 decision must comply with procedural rules for drafting and adopting normative legal acts by executive authorities, as approved by presidential decree in October 2023.
In addition, the Cabinet updated several social and insurance regulations, including rules governing the assignment and recalculation of labour pensions, the payment of mandatory state personal insurance benefits, and procedures for accounting and payment of compulsory personal insurance contributions. In each case, terminology referring to the Presidential Security Service was replaced with the State Protection Service.
The move reflects an ongoing institutional adjustment following the restructuring of state security bodies under last year’s presidential decree.
Separately, the Cabinet repealed a 2014 resolution approving the charter and structure of the “Military Hunting Union” limited liability company.
No further details were provided in the published decision.
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