(31) The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority shall notify the International
Telecommunications Union of the conditions of radio licences issued to aircraft carrying out search and rescue
works (Search and Rescue aircraft, SAR aircraft) and the code of the radio transmission equipment (MMSI)
within one working day from the issue of the specified licence.
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
(4) The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority shall register the maritime accounting
authorities, exercise supervision over them and forward the respective information to the database of the
International Telecommunications Union.
[RT I 2007, 66, 408 – entry into force 01.01.2008]
(5) The minister in charge of the policy sector may establish requirements for the maritime accounting
authorities specified in subsection 4 of this section and the procedure for the registration of and exercise of
supervision over them.
Chapter 4
MANAGEMENT OF NUMBERING RESOURCES
§ 27. Purpose of management of numbering resources
The purpose of management of numbering resources is to ensure the numbering necessary for the provision of
communications services and the efficient and expedient use of numbering resources.
[RT I, 23.12.2015, 1 – entry into force 24.12.2015]
§ 28. Management of numbering resources
(1) The numbering resources shall be managed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and
the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority.
[RT I 2007, 66, 408 – entry into force 01.01.2008]
(2) The management of numbering resources consists in the allocation of numbering pursuant to the
Estonian numbering plan and supervision over the use of numbering. The Minister of Economic Affairs and
Communications and the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority shall manage the numbering
resources on the basis of objective, transparent, non-discriminatory and proportionate criteria, taking account of
the need to achieve harmonised, efficient and effective use of numbering.
[RT I 2007, 66, 408 – entry into force 01.01.2008]
(3) Numbering resources shall be managed and used through the numbering management database.
(4) Upon performing their duties, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and the Consumer
Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority shall take account of the recommendations of the European
Commission on the management of numbering resources to the greatest extent possible. If the Ministry of
Economic Affairs and Communications and the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority do
not take such recommendations into account, they shall submit a notice thereof to the European Commission
along with the reasons for not taking the recommendation into account.
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
§ 281. Numbering management database
(1) The purpose of the numbering management database is to ensure compliance with the requirements for
management of numbering resources, reservation of numbers and number portability provided in this Act.
(2) The numbering management database is founded and its statutes are established by a regulation of the
minister in charge of the policy sector.
(3) The controller of the numbering management database is the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory
Authority. The processor is determined in the statutes of the database.
(4) The following is entered in the numbering management database:
1) information about reserved numbers;
2) information about number portability operations.
(5) Information entered in the numbering management database has legal effect in the cases provided in this
Act.
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