BEREC Chairmanship

BEREC Chair 2025

Robert Mourik joined the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) as Commissioner in 2019 and is currently serving his second five-year term. Robert has almost thirty years’ experience in the telecoms sector, as an industry executive and as a Government official. Prior to joining ComReg, he worked for Cubic Telecom, a new entrant in the automotive Internet of Things space, where he was responsible for all wholesale activities. Robert spent almost 10 years in Telefonica as the European Regulatory Strategy Director at their corporate headquarters in Madrid and as Strategy Director in Ireland. He also worked for Vodafone Group as its head of their Brussels Office and in the regulatory department in Newbury, UK. In 1991, Robert began his career in the Dutch Department for Transport and Telecommunication, and from 1994 until 1999, he served as Telecom Attaché at the Netherlands’ Permanent Representation in Brussels. He was a Member and Chair of the Council Telecoms Working Group in 1998 when the first telecom regulatory package was adopted. Robert was born in the Netherlands and studied Economics and Public Policy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the University of Hull (UK).

BEREC Vice-Chairs 2025

The BEREC Vice-Chairs for 2025 are the following:

The BEREC Chair and Vice-Chairs, together with the representative of Participants without voting rights, Ms Liliia Malon (NCEC, Ukraine), compose the Mini-Board. The main duty of the Mini-Board is to assist the Chair in the performance of their duties. 

Appointment process

Every year, the BEREC Board of Regulators (BoR) elects among its members the Chair for the year subsequent to the following year. To be nominated and elected as Chair, the nominee needs to be supported by at least four members, excluding the candidate itself, and serve at least one year as Vice-Chair. Moreover, at least two-thirds of the members need to vote in favour of one of the Chair’s candidates to reach a majority. Usually, the election takes place during the penultimate BEREC ordinary meeting, when the regular four ordinary meetings are scheduled. Otherwise, the election takes place in the latter half of the year. Overall, the duration of the Chairmanship is one year, renewable once.

Similarly, every year, the BoR elects at least two Vice-Chairs from among its members for the following year. Moreover, the incoming Chair for the year subsequent to the following year and the BEREC Chair of the current year serve as Vice-Chairs. 

Duties and responsibilities

As laid down in Regulation (EU) 2018/1971 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the Agency for Support for BEREC (BEREC Office) – the BEREC Regulation – and upon mandate of the BoR, the BEREC Chair is responsible for all external relations on behalf of BEREC, representing its interests. In this regard, the BEREC Chair has the responsibility to inform all members of the external activities and to report on their results and provide all relevant materials. Moreover, and when invited, the BEREC Chair is responsible to report on the performance of BEREC’s tasks to the European Parliament and the European Commission. The BEREC Chair also serves as the Chair of the Mini-Board, and in this regard convenes the meetings and informs the BoR of the activities of the Mini-Board. 

The BEREC Vice-Chairs have two distinct duties. On the one hand, the incoming Chair or, if the former is not available, the Vice-Chairs, take over the role as Chair if the latter is not in the position to perform their duties. On the other hand, each of the Vice-Chairs provides support and follows the work of a specific cluster of BEREC Working Groups (WGs). The constellation of each cluster of WGs to be assigned to a Vice-Chair is decided by the BEREC Chair. Moreover, in the year preceding the chairmanship, the incoming BEREC Chair has the duty to prepare the Annual Work Programme.

External meeting of the BEREC Chair

Previous BEREC Chairs