YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, NOYAN TAPAN. The 2009 draft state budget envisages allocating 417 mln drams to the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission - against 403 mln drams in 2008. In the words of the commission's chairman Robert Nazarian, the 14 mln dollar increase in the financing is conditioned by the inclusion of two new sectors, those on the use of railway infrastructures and the establishment of car checkup tariffs, in the commission's regulation field. In this connection the staff of the commission was increased.

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