The Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) called for the amendment of the Yarovaya-Ozerov law

The Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service ( FAS) began to consider the possibility of making adjustments to the text of the scandalous antiterrorist package of the Yarovaya-Ozerov laws, Vedomosti reports .

This week, meetings of the expert council on communications with the FAS and representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade were held, three meeting participants reported. Tonight, January 19, a federal-level expert group meeting will be held, chaired by open government minister Mikhail Abyzov. At the same time, officials do not specify what exactly will be subject to “adjustment” in the text of the law.

The reason for the collection of meetings and expert groups was the initiative at the IC , which collected more than 100,000 signatures against the Yarovaya-Ozerov law. According to the IC work mechanism, the government is obliged to consider a civil initiative and take action if necessary.

Telecommunications operators demand to soften the package of anti-terrorism laws. So, they are in favor of reducing the volume of data required for storage, first of all, the traffic per video (we recall, almost 30% of Internet traffic in Russia is generated by a single YouTube).

The traffic storage norm will take effect on July 1, 2018. In the summer of 2016, domestic telecom operators and Internet giants estimated the costcreating and maintaining infrastructure to fulfill the norms of the Yarovoy-Ozerov law in the fantastic only for Mail.ru Group $ 1-1.2 billion (3 times the company's annual revenue), plus monthly maintenance costs of $ 100 million annually. VimpelCom, MTS and Megaphone have called the amounts required for the creation of infrastructure, ranging in size from 230 billion to 2.2 trillion rubles.

Some time ago, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media published several explanatory by-laws for the Yarovoy-Ozerov package. But the expectations of telecom operators and IT companies did not materialize: the agency did not make changes to key points, such as the timing and type of data, which are mandatory for storage.

Now working and expert groups are likely to consider options for mitigating conditions for operators. In addition to reducing the time and clarifying the types of traffic required for storage, operators hope for a delay in the entry into force of the law. In the case of the start of the package of laws of Spring-Ozerov in its present form, the entire industry may be outlawed, or, in the case of the creation of infrastructure, tariffs for the population for communication services will become too heavy. Unfortunately, it is not a question of the complete abolition of the law of Yarovoy-Ozerov, which citizens who signed the petition to the ROI demanded.