The EC began enforcement actions Wed. against nations alleged to ...
The EC began enforcement actions Wed. against nations alleged to have breached EU telecom rules. Key issues are at stake in the latest smaller group of proceedings, an EC spokesman said at a briefing. A cornerstone of the new…
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e- communications regulatory framework (NRF) is the need for independent regulators, he said, a requirement Poland and Slovakia have yet to enshrine in national law. A 2nd issue is availability of caller location information for pan- European emergency number 112. In Latvia, only emergency calls from public phones provide caller location, while in Poland caller location is unavailable for mobile phones. The EC sent 2 hard-core cases to the European Court of Justice: Poland for incorrectly adopting the EU access directive into national law, and France for flubbing its designation of universal service providers, the spokesman said. The Commission has been able to close around 50% of the cases begun since the NRF took effect, “but we have some black sheep,” said a spokesman for Information Society & Media Comr. Viviane Reding. The EC won’t shy away from enforcement, particularly where regulatory independence is concerned, he said. Germany’s revised telecom act, which will grant “regulatory holidays” for “new services” such as Deutsche Telekom’s fiber network, is scheduled to take effect within days, the EC spokesman said. The Commission, now readying an infringement case, will be “ready to shoot,” he said.