- - - - - Communication Technological Units at the line ministry and subordinate institutions”; DCM No. 778, dated 7.11.2012, “On the Approval of General, Minimal Standards of the ICTU Personnel for the Structural Organization of ICT”; DCM No. 710, dated 21.8.2013, “On the Estabishment and Functioning of Systems for the Safeguarding of Information, Continuity of Work and Service Level Agreements”; DCM No. 734, dated 28.8.2013, “On the Establishment of the Unique System of Registration, Authentication and Identification of Users in Retriving Public Services from Electronic Systems”. Directive No. 1, dated 31.12.2012, “On the verification of the copy letter of the electronic document in public institutions”; Directive No. 2, dated 2.9.2013, “On Standartization of Drafting the TORs for the ICT projects in public administration”. Currently, there is a rich legal framework that directly and indirectly regulates ICT and information society. However, the ammendment and improvement of ICT, e-governance and information society legislation is necessary in order to respond to the dynamic development of this field and the establishment of a single digital market integrated with that of the EU and beyond; Development of ICT infrastructure and the Internet With the liberalization of the telecommunications market and after the privatization of the state owned companies, the development of ICT infrastructure was seen as closely related to private investments and stimulation of policies for private investments. The adoption of Law No. 9918, dated 19.05.2008, “On the Electronic Communications in the Republic of Albania”, marked an important step toward the full liberalization of telecommunications market. The law specifically eliminated the entry barriers in the market for the entrepreneurs, as well as it facilitated: - - the right of each entrepreneur to deliver electronic communication networks and services, on the basis of a general authorization as well as individual ones in the case of utilization of limited resources (frequences and numbers); a suitable regulatory environment, which respects the principle of technological impartiality; transferral of rights to utilize the limited resources through transparent, non-discriminatory and proportional procedures. Competition in the electronic communications market has increased and in 2014 there were four mobile telephony operators in the electronic communications market, 79 alternative fixed telephony operators and 131 providers of internet services, ISP. Three operators of the mobile telephony provided broadband mobile services based on the 3G technology. In the first half of 2014, published data by AEPC related to the market indicated the following figures: 3,473,361 active users of mobile telephony; 1,058,354 users of broadband internet from the mobile phones, while the number of fixed telephony customers decreased by reaching 255,358 from 281200 at the end of 2013. The number of fixed broadband services was 188,668. The scale uf utilization of electronic communications, such as the mobile telephony, internet, etc has increased annually. Different observations indicate that utilization of the smart, tablets and other equipment has increased. Utilization of the social networks in the country is wider. There is also an increasing trend in relation to the traffic of data communications and a decrease of the telephone traffic (voice). This is a global tendency which is also reflected in our country. Internet penetration according to the pub13

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