III. Draft decision and prior hearing procedure


Under the terms set out above and by determination of 21 August 2014, the Management Board of ICP-ANACOM approved a draft decision on the information on coverage, quality of service and site-sharing policy to be sent to ICP-ANACOM by undertakings holding rights of use of frequencies for provision of terrestrial electronic communications services (ICP-ANACOM TITLE no. 01/2012, ICP-ANACOM TITLE no. 02/2012 and ICP-ANACOM TITLE no. 03/2012).

This draft decision was submitted to the prior hearing of interested parties in accordance with article 100 et seq. of the Código do Procedimento Administrativo (Administrative Proceeding Code); under this procedure, timely responses were received from the three consulted companies (MEO, Vodafone and NOS).

In this context, the report of the prior hearing was prepared, which, as an integral part of the present decision, includes a summary of the positions expressed and the positions taken by ICP-ANACOM thereon, giving basis to the present decision and, in particular, giving basis to the amendments it was deemed fitting to make to the draft decision, including the deletion of point III.2.