On September 15 RA National Assembly resolved not to include in the agenda
of autumn session the legislative initiative of deputies from “Heritage” faction
Styopa Safarian and Anahit Bakhshian on establishing an interim parliamentary
commission. The commission would deal with the fulfillment of requirements of
the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Resolutions 1374(2004), 1609(2008),
1620(2008), 1643(2009) and 1677(2009) on Armenia. The draft law was declined
by 53 votes “against” with 17 “for” and 18 abstainers.
As it has been reported, the legislative initiative was submitted to the National
Assembly on July 3, 2009. According to the proposal of deputies from “Heritage”
party, the interim commission was to carry out the following three main tasks:
the promotion of legislative initiative aiming to hold an open, fair and transparent
broadcast licensing competition, on the basis of the report made by an independent
CoE spectrum analyst; the examination and the revision of legislative regulations
preventing the implementation of the judgment of the European Court of Human
Rights on the case of “A1+”; the preparation of a conclusion and its presentation
to the RA National Assembly, based on the acquisition and analysis of information
on the circumstances preventing the fulfillment of the PACE Resolutions requirements
on holding a competition and the execution of the European Court judgment. According
to the draft, the activities of the interim commission were supposed to be terminated
in the end of October 2009, in order to ensure the fulfillment of the aforesaid
demands of PACE Resolutions before the PACE winter session and the forerunning
session of Monitoring Committee on the Honoring of Obligations and Commitments
by Member-State of Council of Europe (see YPC Weekly Newsletter, July
3-9, 2009).
