Procedure of Dual-use Items Transfer to Facilitate

Amendments to package of draft bills on RA Law on “Controlling export of dual-use commodities items, their transit through the territory of the Republic of Armenia, as well as transfer of dual-use information and products of intellectual activity,” and its adjacent laws have been under discussion at today’s NA session.

Armen Yeghiazaryan, chairperson of National Centre for Legislative Regulations, told for export of dual-use commodities items, their transit through the territory of the Republic of Armenia, as well as transfer of dual-use information and products of intellectual activity, permit by RA Ministry of Economy is needed, which may be single-use, individual (costs AMD 20 thousand), common (AMD 30 thousand). Application for the permit is submitted in paper form, and the permit is allocated in the period of 20 workdays after submitting necessary documentation.

According to A.Yeghiazaryan, a range of issues have been revealed in regulations, unnecessary documentation claims and grounds for denial, demand for submitting a report, and they propose to allocate individual and common permits for a 5-year term, and the term of contract for the transfer of controlled items and controlled non-material value, in case of less than 5 years, upon the term enshrined in the contract, to define 1 year for activity for single permits, and fee state defined for allocation of individual and common permits, by 30-fold of the basic duty and etc.

According to A.Yeghiazaryan, as a result of change of law, conditions for settlement and the field and business activity, existent issues will be eliminated, costs of entities will reduce.

By Gayane Khachatryan