BEREC elects its Board for 2014 and adopts its work programme for 2014

Press release from BEREC Budapest Plenary:

Fatima Barros, President of Portuguese regulator ANACOM, has been elected BEREC Chair for 2015. For the year before the start of her term, Mrs Barros will serve as a Vice Chair on the BEREC Board alongside Goran Marby, President of Swedish regulator PTS, who will serve as BEREC Chair in 2014. They will be joined by three new Board members: Jack Hamande(BIPT, Belgium), Domagoj Jurjevic(HAKOM, Croatia), and Asta Sihvonen-Punkka(FICORA, Finland).

At its Plenary meeting on 5-6 December in Budapest, BEREC also adopted its work programme for 2014, which will include providing an opinion to the Commission on its review of the Recommendation on Relevant Markets, and the launch of the monitoring of NRAs’ implementation of BEREC common positions.

BEREC published its termination rate benchmark snapshot, together with a report on transparency and comparability of different roaming tariffs and launched a public consultation on a review of its common position on geographic aspects of market regulation.

This was the last Plenary meeting under the chairmanship of Leonidas Kanellos, outgoing President of EETT.