According to the Public Relations Department of the General Directorate of Communications and Information Technology of Mazandaran Province, Esmaeil Ezezi, head of this department, stated in a meeting to review the process of issuing EFTA certificates in the province: “In order to support and expand the security services of the production and information exchange space (EFTA) in the country, the Iranian Information Technology Organization has evaluated and issued activity licenses in the four areas of EFTA technical, operational, educational, and managerial services free of charge.”