Bill Calls For Facilitating Of Dual Purpose Goods Export

BILL CALLS FOR FACILITATING OF DUAL PURPOSE GOODS EXPORT

ARKA
March 16, 2010

YEREVAN, March 16, /ARKA/. Armenian parliament has passed today in
the first reading a bill on control of export of dual purpose goods,
their transit across Armenian territory, as well as transfer of
information and results of dual purpose intellectual activity.

The bill is designed to facilitate the procedure of export of dual
purpose goods from Armenia, a deputy economy minister Garnik Badalian
said. He added that the bill defines all procedures in compliance
with European standards and criteria.

In his words the bill provides for new procedure of licensing and
issuance of permission for export of dual purpose goods. The current
commission vested with this powers will be replaced by a special body
in charGe of coordinating all related issues.

Under the current legislation, licensing and special permissions are
required for export of goods of dual purpose. According to the deputy
minister, the bill suggests that all these procedures be facilitated
and simplified. This will allow to get one license for export of
series-produced dual purpose goods.

The bill also cuts the term for issuing permission from current
45 to 20 days. All procedures will be in electronic format, giving
businessmen an opportunity to get licenses from their offices.

Dual-purpose goods are equipment, materials, raw materials,
technologies, or scientific and technical information which are used
for civilian purposes, but which can be used for the manufacture of
armaments, military hardware, and munitions, including weapons of
mass destruction and related delivery vehicles.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS