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On December 30, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) International Bureau published a Public Notice seeking comment on a set of standardized national security and law enforcement questions (Standard Questions) for applicants whose applications will be referred for foreign ownership review to the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector (the Committee) the inter-agency working group previously referred to as “Team Telecom.” This is the latest step in the Commission’s efforts to modernize the Team Telecom process, and was authorized in the Commission’s Team Telecom Modernization Report and Order.
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For the first time, the FCC will have formal rules governing the process for Team Telecom review of license applications involving foreign ownership. The FCC, however, declined to adopt exclusions for applications that have undergone review by CFIUS, on the grounds that CFIUS review analyzes distinct foreign ownership concerns.
The Federal Communications Commission’s
Report and Order adopting new rules to formally establish the Team Telecom review process are now set to become effective
December 28, 2020, for the aspects of the
Report and Order that do not require OMB approval. As we previously reported, the Commission’s actions follow President Trump’s April 4, 2020, Executive Order (EO 13913) establishing the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector (Committee) to formalize the previously ad hoc Team Telecom review process.
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On August 12, 2020, the amended Law on Land No. 70/NA, dated
June 21, 2019 was published in the
Official Gazette of the
Lao Ministry of Justice, replacing the previous amendment of the
law from 2003. The new law introduces significant changes to the
country s current real estate regulatory framework, and
provides legal means to boost investment in and development of the
country s real estate sector.
Though land in Laos is deemed property of the national
community, a Lao national can be granted permanent land use rights,
which is as close as Laos gets to the concept of land ownership