Law No. 927 IIG, Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Telecommunications

This law covers the main principles applying to telecommunication activities and provides for the protection of operators, providers and users (art 3). Among those principles, the law mentions that (1) “rules of registration, use of contry code domain names are regulated jointly by corresponding executive power body and respective bodies according to international norms” (art 7.10); (2) persons committing acts of unfair competition, violation of users’ interests and rights, or any illegal acts bear responsibility according to legislation (art 11.4); (3) Operators and service providers have the following duties: (i) to operate in field of telecommunication according to normative legal acts; (ii) to fulfill its duties arisen from contract signed with subscriber; (iii) not to violate consumer rights; (iv) to sign interconnection contracts; (v) to provide telecommunication services meeting quality standards, norms and rules set by the law; (vi) to obey directing the traffic according to their duties set by legislation (art 33); (4) Operators and providers must assure confidentiality of information transmitted via their networks; limitations on confidentiality of information transmitted via telecommunication networks are admitted in cases set by legislation only; disclosure of phone calls and information transmitted via other telecommunication means is admitted in cases set by legislation only (art 38); (5) operators and providers must promote in proper legal manner the implementation of search actions, supply telecommunication networks with extra technical devices according to terms set by corresponding executive bodies for this goal, solve organizational issues and keep methods used in implementation of these actions as secret. Operators and providers bear responsibility for violation of these requirements in proper legal manner (art 39).