Egypt Telecommunication Regulation Law – February 2003
Article 82- Penalties for Violations of Article (68)
A penalty of confinement to prison shall be inflicted on whoever infringes the summons
orders prescribed in article (67) of this law.
The penalty shall be confinement to jail if the crime takes place in time of war or in the
cases for which general mobilization is declared according to the provisions of law no.
87 of 1960 on General Mobilization.
In all cases, the court shall pass a ruling temporarily suspending the license pending
execution, by the violator, of the summons order issued to him.
Article 83 - Penalties for Breach of Set Prices
A penalty of confinement to prison and a fine of not less than twenty thousand pounds
and not exceeding two hundred thousand pounds or either penalty shall be inflicted on
every service provider who fails to abide by the health and environmental safety
standards and conditions or the construction measures referred to in articles (6, 35, 36,
and 37) of this law. The court shall, in addition, pass a ruling ordering the removal of
the causes of the violation. Such removal shall be accomplished by the violator within
the period determined therefore by the administration concerned. In case of negligence
or inactiveness, the administration concerned or whoever it assigns shall execute such
removal, and in all cases it shall be done at the expense of the violator.
Article 84- Penalties for Environmental and Health Safety Violations
A fine penalty of not less than ten thousand pounds and not exceeding fifty thousand
pounds shall be inflicted on whoever infringes the commitment prescribed in articles
(19,21 "third clause", 28 "items 1 and 3", and 59 "second clause") of this law. In case of
recurrence, the penalty shall be multiplied in its minimum and maximum limits.
Article 85- Penalties for Violations of Articles (19), (21/3), (28/1), (28/3) and (59/2)
A fine penalty of not less than twenty thousand pounds and not exceeding two hundred
thousand pounds shall be inflicted on any Telecommunication service provider or
operator who violates any condition of the license granted thereto, or infringes the
technical quality controls or the standard measures of performance quality for the
licensed Telecommunication services.
Whoever infringes the Telecommunication services rates as approved by the NTRA
shall be liable to a fine penalty equivalent to tenfold the amount charged in excess to
those rates. The fine shall recur by the number of users in whose respect the
infringement has taken place.
Article 86- Penalties for Breach of Conditions of License
The same penalties as prescribed for the deeds perpetrated in violating the provisions of
this law shall be inflicted on the person in charge of actual management of the juridical
person, if his awareness of these deeds is established, and that his default on the duties
imposed on him by such management has contributed to the perpetration of the crime.
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