The National Security Service wants to get out of the “protection” of the National Security Service and conduct wiretapping on its own.

Today, among 29 other non-reportable issues, the government also approved the drafts of the law “On Amendments and Additions to the Law on Foreign Intelligence Activities and Foreign Intelligence Service” and related laws. The author is Kristinne Grigoryan, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Among the proposed changes, the head of the National Security Service mentioned the need for changes in the Law “On Operative-Intelligence Activities”, noting in particular: “According to the Law of Security, the Service also has the right to carry out operational and investigative activities.

Among a number of operative-investigative measures, the Service has the right to carry out the control measure of digital, including telephone communication.

The project proposes to allow the Service to independently implement an operational-investigative measure of control of digital, including telephone communication, with its own operational-technical infrastructures, which will make it possible to ensure the effectiveness of the measure and the efficiency of the service.

The goal, as it is said, is to clearly regulate the independent implementation by the Service of digital, including telephone communications control (operational-investigative measures) with its own operational-technical infrastructures.

“Accepting the project will, in fact, save the time spent on petitioning the National Security Service and receiving technical assistance and solving other organizational issues, and will enable the operative-investigative secret measure to be carried out more effectively and in a shorter time frame,” says the justification of the project.

With another change, it is proposed to allocate not ranks, but class ranks to the persons holding positions in the Service, excluding the identification with the military service and the ambiguities arising from it.

With this package, in general, the APS expects to settle the gaps in the law, to give legal regulation to the identified problems and to exclude the problems arising or considered possible in practice and to ensure the proper implementation of the functions of the Service.

It is said that the project will lead to an increase in expenses in the RA state budget, which will be planned according to the implementation within the framework of the annual state budget to be allocated to the Service.

“The project stems from Armenia’s transformation strategy until 2050, one of whose visions is to have one of the 10 most effective intelligence services in the world,” the project assures.

The RA government is holding its regular session today, February 19. The agenda of the session includes 39 issues, of which 29 are non-reportable, 7 are confidential, and 3 are reportable.

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