ENACOM Approves New Protocol for Interference Cases

The Argentine Communications Agency (ENACOM) issued Resolution 468/2026, published in the Official Gazette on July 2, 2026, which approved a new Protocol for ENACOM’s Intervention in Cases of Harmful Interference Affecting Essential Services. This Protocol seeks to establish a more agile and expedited procedure for addressing interference that affects services deemed essential, as well as to correct delays identified in the handling of previous cases. The Resolution then repeals the protocol that ENACOM had approved through Resolution 1235/2020.

For the purposes of the Resolution, essential services include the Aeronautical Mobile Service, the Aeronautical Radionavigation Service (used in airports and airfields), emergency services and, in general, any service whose disruption due to harmful interference may endanger public safety, human life, or the performance of critical functions assigned to public agencies.
 

Among its main guidelines, the new protocol provides that:
 

• Complaints must be filed through the Remote Procedures Platform (TAD), although ENACOM may establish direct channels with public agencies. Once a complaint is received, the Technical Emissions Monitoring Centers must intervene immediately and process the proceedings within 24 consecutive hours, to identify the source, the responsible party, and the cause of the interference.
• If the interference is verified, ENACOM will order the responsible party to immediately cease the harmful emissions. In the event of non-compliance, persistence of the interference, or obstruction of notice, technical personnel may appear before the competent Federal Court to request the measures necessary to eliminate the interfering emissions.
• The alleged interfering party will have five consecutive days to submit its response through TAD. ENACOM will then assess the legal and technical status of the station involved and may, as applicable, initiate sanctioning proceedings, order inspection measures, request the seizure of equipment, issue administrative acts, or file a criminal complaint.
   

The Resolution also provides that the authority to declare the illegality of stations used for audiovisual communication services will rest with ENACOM’s highest authority and authorizes ENACOM’s Legal Department to initiate the corresponding judicial actions.