Workshop on geographical survey methodologies - draft BEREC Guidelines on Geographical surveys of network deployments, Brussels - Main contents
| date | October 22, 2019 |
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| city | Brussels, Belgium |
| organisation | Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) i |
The guidelines on Geographic Surveys of the reach of electronic communications networks capable of delivering broadband referred to by Article 22 of the new EU Electronic Communications Code (EECC) aim to increase regulatory certainty and the reliability of geographical surveys in line with relevant EU and Member States regulatory domains. The designation of areas foreseen in Article 22 (2) and 22 (4) will also increase the chances for investment in areas not previously covered by market players with very high capacity networks.
In order to explore further the insights on the forthcoming Guidelines, the EC and BEREC are organizing a dedicated workshop to take place on Tuesday 22 October 2019 in the premises of the European Commission in Brussels (Berlaymont building, room Walter Hallstein).
The workshop mainly aims to provide an important input to BEREC’s tasks regarding the development of guidelines to assist NRAs and/or OCAs on the consistent implementation of their obligations under article 22 of the EECC. Telecom associations/operator input is crucial to the development of these guidelines, as operators will be the ones to feed in with data the different national initiatives. The draft guidelines are currently under public consultation and can be found here.
The workshop is divided in two sessions - a morning session, which is subject to participation by invitation only and an afternoon session, which is open to the public. The envisaged agenda for the afternoon session is provided below:
Please register by FRIDAY 18th of OCTOBER 2019 at the very latest at the site: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/events/cf/geographical-surveys-methodologies/register.cfm as well as confirm your participation in writing to WORKSHOP@berec.europa.eu
In case you wish to join the workshop via video conferencing, please register your participation at WORKSHOP@berec.europa.eu
The BEREC Office is an EU agency providing professional and administrative support to BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications.
BEREC aims the relevant EU legislation is applied consistently, so the EU has a functioningsingle market for electronic communications. It provides advice on request ad its own initiative to the European Institutions. BEREC consists of what is called the Board of Regulators. This is a body made up of the heads (or nominated high-level representatives) of each EU country’s national regulator.