The ITU Radio Regulations Board modified the rules of procedure...

The ITU Radio Regulations Board modified the rules of procedure for the treatment of a change of notifying an administration acting on behalf of an intergovernmental satellite telecommunication organization when it wants to designate a new notifying administration vis-à-vis ITU for its satellite networks, the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) said in a letter to administrations. Twenty-five of 26 countries in Intersputnik had asked the BR to change the notifying administration for its networks from Belarus to Russia (CD March 30 p16). Belarus wanted to hold onto three networks that Intersputnik had said belong to the group. The change instructs the bureau to make the changes upon receipt of due written notification to that effect by the legal representative of the intergovernmental organization in question under the terms of its “constitutive Act,” it said. The notification will need to include evidence of agreement from the newly named administration to act as the notifying administration on behalf of the intergovernmental organization, it said.