Lukashenka Fears Drone Attacks

• 25.09.2023, 18:15

The dictator signed a decree banning the import, storage, circulation, operation and production of drones for individuals.

Aliaksandr Lukashenka signed a decree “On state registration and operation of civil unmanned aerial vehicles.” The document introduces a ban on the import, storage, circulation, operation and production of drones for individuals.

“The document is aimed at ensuring public safety and regulating the procedure for state registration of civil unmanned aerial vehicles and aircraft models, as well as their use,” his press service said in a statement.

Now the import, storage, circulation, operation and production of UAVs is permitted only to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs for their “entrepreneurial and professional activities in compliance with the requirements in the decree.”

To import UAVs into the country, you will need to obtain permission from the Aviation Department of the Ministry of Transport. Also in Belarus there will be an automated system for state accounting of civil UAVs owned by legal entities and (or) individual entrepreneurs.

Within six months from the official publication of the decree, individuals who have drones and UAVs can sell them to organizations or individual entrepreneurs or transfer them for storage to an authorized organization determined by the government.

For the import, operation and manufacture of UAVs by individuals, the decree comes into force after official publication, and regarding storage and circulation — after six months.