SATELITAL INDUSTRIA DEVELOPMENT LEY Law 27208 Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan.
Sanctioned: November 04, 2015
Promulgated: November 09, 2015 The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation assembled in Congress, etc. sanction with force
Law:
SATELITAL INDUSTRIA DEVELOPMENT LEY
PART I
GEOSTATIONAL SATÉLITES OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTER I
OF THE SATELITAL INDUSTRIA
ARTICLE 1 — The development of the satellite industry as a State policy and a national priority, in terms of geostationary telecommunications satellites, should be described as national interest.
CHAPTER II
GEOESTATIONAL PLAN ARGENTINO 2015-2035
ARTICLE 2 Approve the ‘Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015-2035’, which as Annex I is an integral part of this law.
ARTICLE 3 — The ‘Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015-2035’, approved by Article 2 of this Law, will be declared of national public interest.
ARTICLE 4 The national executive branch, through the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Anonymous Society AR-SAT, will execute the necessary actions to implement the ‘Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015-2035’.
ARTICLE 5 — Authorize the national executive branch to make the necessary budgetary adjustments for the implementation of the ‘Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015-2035’.
ARTICLE 6 Please note that the national executive branch, through the Argentine Satellite Solutions Company AR-SAT, will have to keep the ‘Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015-2035’ updated, for which purpose the aforementioned company will proceed to review in periods not exceeding three (3) years, bringing to the national executive branch the changes it deems relevant.
ARTICLE 7 The Federal Authority on Information and Communications Technologies (AFTIC), in the framework of the provisions of Law 27.078 ‘Argentina Digital’, will make to the International Telecommunication Union (U.I.T.) the necessary arrangements related to the coordination and allocation of orbital positions and their associated frequencies bands, dictate the relevant rules and exercise the other actions that it deems appropriate in the scope of the present Article-20.
PART II
OF THE EMPRESS ARGENTINA DE SOLUTIONS SATELITALES SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA AR-SAT
CHAPTER I
OF YOUR SOCIAL CAPITAL
ARTICLE 8 — Please note that the social capital of the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Sociedad Anónima AR-SAT will be represented in a fifty-one percent (51%) by Class ‘A’ actions, its transfer is prohibited and/or any other act or action that limits, alters, suppresses or modifies its destiny, ownership, dominion or nature, or its fruits or the destiny of these last Nation expresses Honorable.
ARTICLE 9 — The national executive branch, through regulation, shall establish the Ministries and/or Decentralized Agencies that shall exercise the rights derived from the ownership of the actions of the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions AR-SAT, and shall make the necessary adjustments to the Social Statute of the company.
CHAPTER II
OF THE MODIFICATION OF YOUR RESOURCES
ARTICLE 10. - Any act or action that limits, alters, deletes or modifies the destination, availability, ownership, domain or nature of the essential resources and associated resources of the Information and Communications and Telecommunications Technologies, defined in Law 27.078 ‘Argentina Digital’, which belong to or are assigned to the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions AR-SAT, will require the express authorization of the Honorable Nation.
CHAPTER III
OF FRENCH BANDS
ARTICLE 11. - The NATIONAL ENTER OF COMMUNICATIONS (ENACOM) will directly assign the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Anonymous Society AR-SAT the frequencies required for the fulfillment of its purposes.
In order to generate conditions of competence and promote regional development, by assigning the frequencies of the radio spectrum for the provision of Mobile Communications Services provided for in Annex II to the present, the NATIONAL ENTE OF COMMUNICATIONS (ENACOM) shall grant participation to providers of ICT services of a regional or local, public or private nature, in accordance with the procedures provided for in Article 4 of Decree No. 1340/16.
Such participation may not be less than the VEINTE BY CIENTO (20 %) of the frequencies indicated in Annex II.
(Article replaced by art. 1 Decree No. 58/2019 B.O. 21/1/2019. Watch: from the date of publication. See Annex II in the reference standard) ARTICLE 12. - The frequency bands reserved by Article 11 of this law will be used for the implementation and operation of services and applications for which such bands are or are attributed, prioritizing applications of Public Protection and Relief and Defense Operations, complementing the Network of ICT Services of the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions AR-SAT Company, and fundamentally addressing the areas of the highest vulnerability of the country, in projects of its own or in association with terms
ARTICLE 13. - The projects provided for in Article 12 of this Law will be coordinated between the Federal Authority for Information and Communications Technologies (AFTIC), through its technical areas, and the Argentine Company for Satellite Solutions, Sociedad Anónima AR-SAT.
PART III
FINAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 14. - The authorizations required by articles 8 and 10 as well as any modification of the reservation established in article 11, shall require the vote of two thirds (2/3) of the members of the Honorable Congress of the Nation.
ARTICLE 15. - This law shall enter into force from its publication in the Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic. The national executive branch, at the end of sixty (60) days after the publication, shall issue its regulations.
ARTICLE 16. - Contact the national executive branch.
IN THE SESSION OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN GOOD AIRES, TO THE FOUR DAYS OF THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER OF THE YEAR DOS MIL QUINCE.
— REGISTRATION BAJO N° 27208 —
LOVE BOUDOU. - JULIAN A. DOMÍNGUEZ. — Juan H. Estrada. - Lucas Chedrese.
NOTE: The Annex/s that integrate/n this(a) Law is published in the web edition of BORA —www.boletinoficial.gob.ar — and can also be consulted at the Central Headquarters of this National Directorate (Suipacha 767 - Autonomous City of Buenos Aires).
(Note Infoleg: The annexes referred to in this rule have been extracted from the Official Gazette web edition. These are available in the following link: Annexes) (Note Infoleg: the modifications to the Annex that have been published in the Official Gazette can be consulted by clicking on the link "This rule is complemented or modified by standard X(s).")