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World Bank recommendations to the Draft Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Law (Commentary)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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ANNEX  2  <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Draft  2008  Law  on  the  Telecommunications  Regulatory  Commission<\/strong><\/span>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/span>  <\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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GENERAL  COMMENTS  <\/p><\/div>\n

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Title:  There  may  be  the  need  to  consider  a  broader  title.  In  addition  to  the  institutional  aspects  related  to  the  creation  of  the  Authority,  the  draft  deals  with  other  substantive  issues.   <\/p><\/div>\n

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Presentation\/  Format:  The  draft  would  benefit  from  a  better  organization  of  different  sections  and  from  introduction  of  titles  for  each  article.  A  table  of  content  should  be  added  once  the  law  is  finalized  to  facilitate  navigation  of  the  document.  <\/p><\/div>\n

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A  new  Article\/  section  could  be  added  to  deal  with  the  objective  of  the  law  immediately  after  the  definition  sections.  This  section  is  important  for  the  flow  of  the  law  and  would  help  with  interpretation  of  specific  provisions  against  the  objectve  of  the  Act.  The  current  article  3  contains  broad  principles.  They  need  to  be  elaborated  further  and  labeled  correctly.  The  establishment  of  the  Authority  should  be  mentioned  as  one  of  the  main  objectives  of  the  new  law.  <\/p><\/div>\n

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Scope  of  the  Act:  Although  a  number  of  articles  refer  to  the  law  as  covering  both  telecommunications  and  information  technology,  this  is  basically  a  telecommunications  law.  <\/p><\/div>\n

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The  rulemaking  power  of  the  Commission  needs  to  be  clarified  and  made  more  explicit  to  allow  the  Commission  to  undertake  its  roe  without  having  to  go  back  to  Ministry  or  Cabinet  when  the  need  arises  for  new  regulatory  instruments.   <\/p><\/div>\n

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Appointment  of  the  board  of  the  Commission  is  by  cabinet.  There  is  possibility  of  appointment  by  the  president  or  prime  minister.  In  the  context  of  Palestine,  could  this  delay  the  appointment  of  the  Board  and  delay  the  establishment  of  the  regulator?   If  there  was  a  delay,  could  there  be  an  interim  arrangement?  It  might  be  good  to  have  staggered  terms  for  the  Commissioners  so  that  they  are  not  all  replaced  at  the  same  time.   <\/p><\/div>\n

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The  draft  would  benefit  from  having  infrastructure  sharing  provisions  along  the  lines  of  the  interconnection  provisions;  i.e.,  that  operators  should  be  encouraged  to  share  infrastructure,  but  that  DOs  must  share  infrastructure.   An  example  of  such  provisions  from  another  jurisdiction  is  attached  as  Annex  2.  <\/p><\/div>\n

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1. These comments have been slightly revised to take into account translation inadequacies of the draft. This version is based on the Arabic version <\/p><\/div>\n

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World Bank recommendations to the Draft Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Law (Commentary) ANNEX  2      Draft  2008  Law  on  the  Telecommunications  Regulatory  Commission1         GENERAL  COMMENTS      Title:  There  may  be  the  need  to  consider  a  broader  title.  In  addition  to  the  institutional  aspects  related  to  the  creation  of  the  Authority,  the  draft  deals  with  other  substantive  issues.       Presentation\/  Format:  The  draft  would  benefit  from  a  better  organization  of  different  sections  and  from  introduction  of  titles  for  each  article.  A  table  of  content  should  be  added  once  the  law  is  finalized  to  facilitate  navigation  of  the  document.      A  new  Article\/  section  could  be  added  to  deal  with  the  objective  of  the  law  immediately  after  the  definition  sections.  This  section  is  important  for  the  flow  of  the  law  and  would  help  with  interpretation  of  specific  provisions  against  the  objectve  of  the  Act.  The  current  article  3  contains  broad  principles.  They  need  to  be  elaborated  further  and  labeled  correctly.  The  establishment  of  the  Authority  should  be  mentioned  as  one  of  the  main  objectives  of  the  new  law.      Scope  of  the  Act:  Although  a  number  of  articles  refer  to  the  law  as  covering  both  telecommunications  and  information  technology,  this  is  basically  a  telecommunications  law.      The  rulemaking  power  of  the  Commission  needs  to  be  clarified  and  made  more  explicit  to  allow  the  Commission  to  undertake  its  roe  without  having  to  go  back  to  Ministry  or  Cabinet  when  the  need  arises  for  new  regulatory  instruments.       Appointment  of  the  board  of  the  Commission  is  by  cabinet.  There  is  possibility  of  appointment  by  the  president  or  prime  minister.  In  the  context  of  Palestine,  could  this  delay  the  appointment  of  the  Board  and  delay  the  establishment  of  the  regulator?   If  there  was  a  delay,  could  there  be  an  interim  arrangement?  It  might  be  good  to  have  staggered  terms  for  the  Commissioners  so  that  they  are  not  all  replaced  at  the  same  time.      The  draft  would  benefit  from  having  infrastructure  sharing  provisions  along  the  lines  of  the  interconnection  provisions;  i.e.,  that  operators  should  be  encouraged  to  share  infrastructure,  but  that  DOs  must  share  infrastructure.   An  example  of  such  provisions  from  another  jurisdiction  is  attached  as  Annex  2.   _______________ 1. These comments have been slightly revised to take into account translation inadequacies of the draft. This version is based on the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[3145,2597],"document-source":[1957],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1937,2185],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-199067","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-annex","document-category-comments","document-source-world-bank","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-legal-issues","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=199067"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=199067"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=199067"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=199067"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=199067"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=199067"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=199067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}