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| 15:48:12 | 17-06-2005 | Social |
“VERY LIBERAL DRAFT”
According to the RA Justice Minister David Harutyunyan, the RA Draft
Law on “Electronic Communication” is a “very liberal draft”. Today in
hotel “Congress” the draft was discussed with the initiative of the
“Cooperation for Open Society”.
“From the moment when the relations between ArmenTel and the
Government became complicated, we realized that the legislation must
be regulated”, said the Minister. Those who processed the project,
tried to draw a borderline between the functions of the executive and
the regulator. For example, the interference of the legislative bodies
into the work of the regulating ones has been considerably limited.
“I do not think that the new project is ideal. It is very complicated
and many new concepts will be introduced to us”, warned David
Harutyunyan. One of them is “Consuming individual” who uses the
electronic communication services.
Taking into account the Cooperation agreement signed between the RA
and the EU the “new concepts” have been made correspondent to the
EU criteria.
Will the new law change the relations between ArmenTel and the
Government? David Harutyunyan is not sure; moreover, he states
that the majority of the substructures are still under the control
of ArmenTel.