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Azerbaijan is establishing a National Cybersecurity Agency under the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport, according to a presidential decree signed by President Ilham Aliyev.
The new agency will be created on the basis of the Electronic Security Service, which currently operates under the ministry. It will function as a public legal entity.
The decree also approved the agency’s charter.
The agency will be managed by a board of 4 members: a chairman and 3 deputy chairmen. The board will provide general leadership and oversight of the new institution.
Its charter capital will be formed from unused funds allocated in this year’s state budget for the relevant state body, after that body’s obligations are fully met.
Some of the founder’s powers will be exercised by the president of Azerbaijan. These include approval of the agency’s charter and charter capital, changes to them, the creation of management bodies, and decisions on reorganization or liquidation.
The Cabinet of Ministers has been instructed to ensure the transfer of property from the balance sheet of the existing state body to the new agency within 1 month after its state registration. The government must also prepare proposals to improve the agency’s material and technical capacity and submit them to the president.
The decision gives cybersecurity a more defined institutional role in Azerbaijan’s public administration. As digital services, online identification, state databases and electronic payments expand, cybersecurity is increasingly being treated not only as a technical issue, but as part of national resilience and state security.
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