ANNEX (as referred to in subsection 1.2) Statutes of the Communications Regulatory Authority CHAPTER I General provisions Section 1 Legal nature and purpose 1. The Communications Regulatory Authority, referred to in short as ARCOM, is a public corporate person, vested with administrative and financial autonomy, and property of its own. 2. The purpose of ARCOM is to regulate, supervise and represent the telecommunications sector, under the terms as established by the present Statutes and by law. Section 2 Seat and branches 1. Dili is the seat of ARCOM. 2. ARCOM may have branches, agencies or any other forms of representation within the national territory. Section 3 Legal regime ARCOM is governed by the provisions of the present Statutes, by legal provisions that are specifically applicable to it and, subsidiarily, by the legal regime of public corporate entities, with the exception of the specificities provided in the present Statutes, as well as rules inconsistent with the non-business nature of the former. Section 4 Independence ARCOM is independent in the exercise of its functions, in accordance with the law, without prejudice to the guiding principles of the communications policy set by the Government, under the terms established by the Constitution and by law, and of the acts subject to ministerial supervision, under the terms as established by law and in the present Statutes. Section 5 Principle of speciality