LAW ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SATELLITE INDUSTRY
Law 27208
Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan.
Sanctioned: November 04, 2015
Enacted: November 09, 2015
The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, meeting in Congress, etc.
Law:
LAW ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SATELLITE INDUSTRY
TITLE I
OF THE GEOSTATIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES
CHAPTER I
FROM THE SATELLITE INDUSTRY
ARTICLE 1- The development of the satellite industry as a state policy and a national priority, in terms of geostationary telecommunications satellites, is of national interest.
CHAPTER II
FROM THE ARGENTINE GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE PLAN 2015-2035
ARTICLE 2- I approved the 'Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015 -2035', which, as Annex I, forms an integral part of this law.
ARTICLE 3- The 'Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015 -2035', approved by Article 2 of this Law, was declared in the national public interest.
ARTICLE 4 °- The national executive branch, through the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Company Anonymous 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- The national executive branch, through the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Company Anonymous AR-SAT, will have to keep up to date the 'Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015 -2035', for which the company is responsible. carry out their review in periods of not more than three (3) years, bringing to the national executive branch any changes it deems appropriate.
ARTICLE 7- The Federal Authority for Information and Communications Technologies (AFTIC), within the framework of law 27.078 'Argentina Digital', will make the necessary efforts to the International Telecommunications Union ( linked to the coordination and allocation of orbital positions and their associated frequency bands, shall dictate the relevant rules and shall exercise the other actions which it considers appropriate in the field of its competence, for the purposes of achieve the implementation of the 'Argentine Geostationary Satellite Plan 2015 -2035', approved by the Article 2 of this Law.
TITLE II
FROM THE ARGENTINE COMPANY OF SATELLITE SOLUTIONS COMPANY ANONYMOUS AR-SAT
CHAPTER I
OF ITS SOCIAL CAPITAL
ARTICLE 8- Establish that the social capital of the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Company Anonymous AR-SAT will be represented in fifty-one percent (51%) by Class 'A' actions, being prohibited its transfer and/or any other act or action that limits, alters, deletes or modifies its destination, ownership, domain or nature, or its fruits or the destination of the latter, without prior authorization from the Honorable Congress of the Nation.
ARTICLE 9- The national executive branch, through the regulation, will establish the Ministries and/or Decentralized Agencies that will exercise the rights derived from the ownership of the shares of the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Society Anonymous AR-SAT, and will make the necessary adjustments to the Social Statute of the company.
CHAPTER II
OF THE MODIFICATION OF ITS 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 the associated resources of the Information and Communications Technologies and of the Telecommunications, defined in law 27.078 'Argentina Digital', which belong to or are assigned to the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Company Anonymous AR-SAT, will require express authorization from the Honorable Congress of the Nation.
CHAPTER III
OF THE FREQUENCY BANDS
ARTICLE 11- Reserve with preferential character to the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Company Anonymous AR-SAT the bands of frequencies that are detailed in the Annex II that forms an integral part of the present law.
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 these bands are or are attributed, prioritizing Public Protection and Operations of Relief and Defense, complementing the Network of ICT Services of the Argentine Company of Satellite Solutions Company Anonymous AR-SAT and mainly attending to the areas of greatest vulnerability of the country, in own projects or in association with licensees of ICT services having the character of the Municipality, Cooperatives, Companies of the State incorporated in the terms of Article 1 of Law 20,705, companies incorporated in the terms of Article 308 of the General Law of Societies 19.550 (T.O. 1984) and their amendments or companies mentioned above in point (b) of Article 8 ° of the Law on Financial Management and the Systems of Control of the National Public Sector 24.156 and its amendments.
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 Satellite Solutions Company. Anonymous Company AR-SAT.
TITLE III
FINAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 14.- The authorizations required by Articles 8 ° and 10 as well as any modification of the reservation set out 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 on the basis of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic. The national executive branch, within sixty (60) days of the publication, will dictate its regulations.
ARTICLE 16.- Contact the national executive branch.
GIVEN IN THE SESSION HALL OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, ON THE FOUR DAYS OF NOVEMBER OF THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN.
-REGISTERED UNDER NO 27208-
BELOVED BOUDOU. -JULIAN A. DOMINGUEZ. -Juan H. Estrada. -Lucas Chedrese.
NOTE: The Annex/s that integrates this (a) Law are published in the web edition of the BORA -www.boletinofficial.gob.ar-and can also be consulted in the Central Headquarters of this National Directorate (Suipacha 767-Autonomous City of Buenos Aires).
( Note Infoleg: The annexes referred to in this standard have been extracted from the Official Gazette web edition. The same can be found in the following link: Annexes )
