Approval of draft addenda to the ITED Manual (3rd edition) and ITUR Manual (2nd Edition)

By determination of 16 June 2017, ANACOM has approved draft addenda to the ITED Manual (3rd edition) and ITUR Manual (2nd edition) for notification to the European Commission through IPQ - Instituto Português da Qualidade (Portuguese Quality Institute). Pursuant to articles 3 and 5 of Decree-Law no. 58/2000 of 18 April, at least three months must elapse following receipt of these addenda by the Commission before final approval can be given.

At the same time, approval was given to the reports of the public consultation to which the respective draft decision was submitted (draft decision approved by ANACOM on 4 May 2017).

As regards the ITED Manual, timely contributions were received from: ACIST - Associação Empresarial de Comunicações de Portugal (Portuguese Communications Business Association), CTE209 - Comissão Técnica de Normalização Permanente Eletrotécnica 209 (Permanent Technical Commission for Electrotechnical Standardization 209), GENERAL CABLE CELCAT, Energia e Telecomunicações, IAPMEI - Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação (Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation), MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia (MEO), and TELEVÉS Electrónica Portuguesa. Vodafone Portugal - Comunicações Pessoais submitted contributions which were received after the end of the consultation period; these were not considered in the report.

As regards the ITUR Manual, timely contributions were received from ACIST, da CTE209, da GENERAL CABLE CELCAT, Energia e Telecomunicações, IAPMEI, MEO and TELEVÉS Electrónica Portuguesa.