New regulations on foreign intelligence legislation

The executive proposed changes and additions to the Laws “On Foreign Intelligence Activities and Foreign Intelligence Service”, “On Operative-Intelligence Activities” and a number of related laws.

Kristinne Grigoryan, the head of the RA Foreign Intelligence Service, informed that after the adoption of the law regulating the sphere by the National Assembly, it needs improvement and legal clarification.

It is proposed to regulate the relations of appointment or transfer of a service employee to a higher, equal or lower position.

RA legislation provides for paternity leave. It is recommended to provide such a regulation in the legal relations of the service.

It is proposed to provide a legal basis for defining the order of weapons and special means, in which cases and in what order the officer will have the opportunity or right to use the weapon and special means.

A requirement will be established, according to which only RA citizens can be appointed to the position of head of service and deputy. As of now, there is a legal possibility to appoint dual citizens as well.

The service implements the “Telephone Communication Control” event. It is proposed to allow by law the possibility of the service to perform operational-investigative measures of control of digital, including telephone communication independently and with its own operational-technical infrastructure.

The following regulations refer to the personnel reserve, the possibility of minimum service period and compensation in the case of trainings, professional education courses, planning class ranks, social guarantees of employees, etc.

Andranik Kocharyan presented the positive conclusion of the National Defense and Security Affairs Standing Committee. According to the chairman of the commission, the law adopted in 2022 gave our country the opportunity to have a new security structure.

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