The Productive Economic Development Commission of the National Assembly began the process of the urgent project for the digital and audiovisual transformation and there are 19 days left to carry out the two debates in plenary. There were the first appearances.
The proposal is contained in 41 articles and 2 transitory and final provisions. Its purpose is to promote investment and innovation by modernizing, updating, and simplifying procedures, processes, and regulatory obstacles; establishes a regulatory framework for the promotion of the digital transformation of public institutions, private companies and society.
Executive sends an urgent project on digital transformation
Likewise, it seeks to strengthen the effective and efficient use of platforms, digital technologies, networks and digital services in order to attract investment, promote the digital economy, efficiency and social well-being; promote the adoption of digital technologies in the provision of public services and management of administrative procedures; and, encourage the use and optimization of the resources necessary to achieve digital transformation.
This Executive initiative project entered the National Assembly on November 23 and the Legislative Administration Council (CAL) recently qualified its process on Saturday, December 3, so that the Economic Development table has 19 days left to process the project in two debates.
The maximum term that Parliament has for its processing expires on Friday, December 23. The Commission will take into account the minimum terms and not the maximum ones to process this proposal because ten days have elapsed since it was notified of the project sent by the Executive.
Daniel Noboa, president of the Legislative Commission, highlighted that it is an important bill for an industry that in the country is “in its infancy, not to say that it is non-existent”, and stressed that many of the issues that are exposed in the text of the Executive were already discussed and treated within the table, on which there was a consensus in theory.
He questioned that “curiously” the CAL has taken time to qualify an urgent project, so there are days left to process the project within the Commission.
The report for the first debate on this project would be ready on Friday, December 9, according to the schedule approved at the table, and to expedite the process there will be continuous sessions. Various public and private stakeholders will be invited to present their observations, the list is as follows:
- Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society
- Ministry of Economy and Finance
- Ministry of Energy and Mines
- Internal Revenue Service, SRI
- Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries
- Ministry of Education
- National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Senescyt
- Civil registration
- Institute for the Promotion of Creativity and Innovation, IFCI
- Representatives of chambers, committees, federations and councils of production and industries
- Association of Municipalities of Ecuador, AME
- Consortium of Provincial Autonomous Governments of Ecuador, Congope
- Academics, notaries, lawyers and experts in the field
The vice president of the Commission, Wilma Andrade, also questioned the short time the table has for the process due to the delay in qualifying the government initiative by CAL. The appearances of the officials begin this December 5.
In the first appearances, Paola Robalino, from the Audiovisual Corporation of Ecuador; Diego Álvarez, representative of Niubox Legal; Felipe Terán, from Coda Producciones; and Juan Carlos Terraza, audiovisual producer, who highlighted the importance of the proposed regulations.
Robalino stressed that this project will make Ecuador a preferred place for audiovisual productions, which will help the national economy and boost job creation, as well as create conditions to compete in a market with exponential growth.
While Diego Alvarez, country manager Ecuador Niubox Legal, said that digital and technological regulation must be transversal in all institutions. That until today, Ecuador has not achieved a true digital transformation, which is why the digital agenda should be created, the institutional framework developed, the consolidation of an open and digital government that allows the use of public data and the promotion of new internet technologies.
He raised some clarifications in the Executive’s project, such as in article 16 to clarify regarding electronic titles, which are issued by banks with dematerialized titles so that there is no confusion in the norm; and, article 31 clarify about the summons for tickets in the electronic address. He supported the initiative to create an audiovisual investment certificate.
Felipe Terán, from Coda Producciones, and Juan Carlos Terraza, an audiovisual producer, agreed that there is infrastructure, talent and experience in audiovisual productions in the country, but that they are affected because the production is carried out abroad and they are running out of work . For this reason, they requested that the regulations prohibit the hiring of foreign production companies.
Terraza stated that advertising is an important point for trade and development in many aspects; However, he assured that when it comes to charging for the work done, there are abuses by large companies, so it is necessary for the law to protect the work of audiovisual production companies. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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