| NOTAS: | "2011 was the first from a series of three years marking important events for the communications field: in 2011 we celebrated twenty years of modern radio spectrum management in Romania, in 2012 we will celebrate ten years of regulation of communications and promotion of competition as the main mechanism for ensuring quality services at affordable tariffs for users, and finally in 2013 we will celebrate ten years from the full liberalisation of the Romanian communications market. The first of these series of three anniversary years, 2011 was not a historical year. I like however to believe that not every year must be an epochal one and that historical moments need to be prepared carefully and in peace, in the workshop. I also believe that any structure meant to last is built in time. 2011 was a year of research, planning and consolidation of foundations, a year of hard work here, in ANCOM, a year in which important evolutions for the Romanian communications history were prepared. In 2011, practically the entire legal framework in the field was changed, transposing the Directives adopted by the European Commission in 2009. Important laws for the field were wiped out, i.e. the Framework- Law, the Universal Service Law, the Access and Interconnection Law, and were replaced by a new communications law, a modern text which covers the new European provisions and the new technological evolutions and incorporates the practical experience accumulated by our specialists in almost a decade of enforcing the previously applicable laws…." |
