Minister of Transport and Communications

José Agostinho da Silva

The Ministry of Transport and Communications is the government department responsible for designing, implementing, coordinating and evaluating the policy, defined and approved by the Council of Ministers, in the sectors of transport and communications and specifically is in charge or proposing and executing the Ministry's policy on transport and communications; to formulate, develop and ensure the implementation and enforcement of the legal and regulatory framework of the transport and communications sectors; to develop and regulate the activity of transport and communications as well as optimize the means of communication; to ensure the coordination of the transport sector and to encourage complementarity between its various modes, as well as its competitiveness, in order to improve user satisfaction; to promote management, as well as the adoption of technical and regulatory standards regarding the public use of communications services; guarantee the provision of public telecommunications services and the use of radioelectric space, through public undertakings or the provision of public service to private entities; maintain and develop national meteorological and seismic monitoring and information systems, including the construction and maintenance of their infrastructures; promote and coordinate scientific research and technological development in the fields of civil, land, air and maritime transport; establish mechanisms of collaboration and coordination with other government bodies with oversight over related areas.

Under the Ministry of Transport and Communications are: Administration of the Ports of Timor-Leste - APORTIL; Administration of Airports and Air Navigation - ANATLEP; Civil Aviation Authority of Timor-Leste - AACTL; ANC – National Communications Authority.