ELIMINATING CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN DOMESTIC LEGISLATION IN THE FIELD OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

摘要

On August 22, 2012 the Russian Federation joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a new WTO member, Russia assumed a number of obligations. It was for the purpose of eliminating contradictions between the effective national legislation and the obligations within the framework of the WTO that appropriate rules started being made. One of such rules relating to satellite telecommunications deserves a separate detailed description. In mid-2013, on the invitation of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, a special working group started elaborating a draft Regulation of the Government of the Russian Federation. The following two new Procedures were to be approved under this Regulation: the Procedure of the International Legal Protection in the Russian Federation of Radio Frequency or Radio Frequency Channel Assignments (International Legal Protection Procedure), and the Procedure of the Use in the Territory of the Russian Federation of Satellite Telecommunications Networks Falling under the Jurisdiction of Foreign States (Networks Use Procedure).