The Council of the Communications Regulatory Agency warned of a delay in the adoption of the Law on Electronic Communications and negative consequences for the regulator’s work, stressing that it is necessary to ensure a transparent and professional continuation of the legislative procedure with the full participation of competent institutions.
These conclusions were reached at a session of that council, where several individual pieces of information were considered regarding the Agency’s actions within its jurisdiction, adoption of bylaws and participation in the creation of a new legal framework.
Among other things, the Council of the Agency established a proposal for a response to the conclusions from the 37th session of the Commission for Transport and Communications of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, which will be sent to the further parliamentary procedure.
In particular, information on the current flow of work on the draft rules on the public electronic register “Do not call” was considered, after the process of public consultation on the draft of this sub-legal text.
In the meantime, all received remarks and comments on the draft of this document were processed in detail, and the legal basis for its adoption was additionally analyzed. It was established that the Agency is the only institution in BiH that can unify the requirements of sectoral regulatory law, consumer protection and personal data protection in an implementing act applicable to operators of communication services. The Council approved the further work and activities of the Agency on the preparation of the new Rule.
The Council of the Agency also considered the information about the delay in the adoption of the Law on Electronic Communications and the consequences for the work of the regulator, after the decision of the relevant Ministry three months ago, the Working Group for the preparation of the draft of this law was disbanded, and in the meantime a new draft was published.
Also, the Council was informed that this way of passing the new Law on Electronic Communications, along with the disbanding of the Working Group and the exclusion of relevant institutions from the final stage of drafting, seriously affects legal certainty, regulatory consistency and the Agency’s ability to regulate the electronic communications market in a timely manner.
“Therefore, it is necessary to insist on a transparent, professional and inter-institutional coordinated continuation of the legislative procedure, with the full participation of the Agency as the competent regulatory body”, the statement of the Communications Regulatory Agency emphasized.
