BEREC Report on the outcome of the Public consultation on the Draft BEREC report on interoperability of NI-ICS

This report summarises the responses provided by the stakeholders during BEREC’s public consultation on the Draft BEREC Report on interoperability of Number-Independent Interpersonal Communication Services (NI-ICS) (BoR (22) 1871), further “the Draft Report”, as well as BEREC’s views on the issues raised by the respondents. The Draft Report was opened to public consultation from 13 December 2022 till 3 February 2023.

10 respondents contributed to the public consultation, namely:

1. Contributor 1 (confidential)
2. Contributor 2 (confidential)
3. Contributor 3 (confidential)
4. ECTA
5. ETNO
6. Google
7. International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE)
8. Meta
9. VZBV - Federation of German Consumer Organisations
10. Dr Anna Schneider

BEREC is grateful to receive the submissions and has carefully considered all of them. Accordingly, BEREC sets out its summary of assessments and responses in this report. Comments, observations and recommendations raised by the respondents are summarised here below, and BEREC’s views are presented in separate boxes. All non-confidential contributions are publicly available and accessible on BEREC website2. This report is a summary and it does not explicitly elaborate on observations that are not directly related to the Draft Report subject to public consultation.