The second meeting of the RSPG working group (WG) on the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) was held last 18 June in Brussels. This WG co-chaired by France (ANFR - Agence Nationale des Fréquences), Hungary (NMHH - National Media and Infocommunications Authority) and Germany (Ministry of Transportation and Digital Infrastructure) was set up in the beginning of the year. The aim during this period in which the new Directive, commonly called the Code (Electronic Communications Code), is approaching its implementation phase, is to identify new tasks for the RSPG to undertake and also to propose actions needed to achieve them (e.g. changes to the rules of procedure (RoP) and to the decision establishing the RSPG, identification of new items to include in the group’s working programme and adjustment of the peer review to the rules envisaged in the Code).
The group’s composition very much resembled that of its predecessor in charge of monitoring matters involving spectrum in the scope of the review of the new regulatory framework, preparing the RSPG’s positions on the subject and promoting debate at technical level with a view to aligning positions at the level of the Council of the European Union (EU). Participants in this meeting included representatives of the European Commission (EC) and delegates representing eight member states, including Portugal (ANACOM).
Based on the Code version agreed on in the trialogue last 5 June (political agreement, whose consolidated version was circulated by the chair on the day of this meeting), at this second meeting the group proceeded to examine the modifications relevant for the RSPG.
That work led to the following:
- exhaustive analysis of the Code articles with impact in the RSPG was continued, the aim being to identify new tasks and those that will remain unchanged. Standing out among the new tasks are those concerning good offices (cross-border coordination) and peer review (workshop for peer analysis applicable to allocation processes for bands harmonised for mobile broadband);
- the working plan to present at the next RSPG plenary meeting was discussed. It will impose demanding targets to contribute in due course to the proposed review of the RSPG basic documents which the EC will be responsible for carrying out.
The next RSPG EECC meeting was scheduled for this 30 August in Paris. Plans call for additional meetings to be held to finish the proposed work in time for the October RSPG meeting.
