BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

14/08/2006

State Committee on Radio Frequencies will be attached to the Security Council

According to e-Belarus.org, the State Committee on Radio Frequencies, a regulatory body which is attached to the Ministry of Communications and Informatization and which has been operational since 1994, is to be replaced by a new Committee attached to the State Security Council. Under a new presidential decree, the new State Committee on Radio Frequencies will be headed by Security Council Vice State Secretary Juri Krivosheev, which will be responsible for radio-frequency spectrum distribution based on 'state priorities'. The online portal writes that the new body will develop 'schemas of radio frequencies distribution, as well as databases of radio electronic and high frequencies devices used in Belarus. In addition, the State Committee on Radio Frequencies will be responsible for radio frequencies spectrum conversion.'

Source:

http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=13853&email=html