BEREC extends the public consultation deadline on the draft BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks

In order to facilitate further stakeholders’ input to the draft BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks, BEREC extends the deadline for contributions until 30 April 17:00 (CET). Contributions should be submitted to [email protected] preferably in English and include a reference to relevant paragraphs or sections of the Guidelines in order to facilitate their processing.  

In accordance with the BEREC policy on public consultations, BEREC will publish a summary of all contributions received on the BEREC website, taking into account requests for confidentiality. Any such requests should clearly indicate which information is considered confidential. It is also possible to send both a confidential and a public version of the input.

The Guidelines shall contribute to the harmonisation of the definition of the term ‘very high capacity network’ in the European Union. The Guidelines will specify the criteria that a network is to fulfil in order to be considered a very high capacity network. In particular, down- and uplink bandwidth, resilience, error-related parameters, latency and its variation, according to Article 82 of the European Electronic Communications Code. BEREC plans to issue the above-mentioned Guidelines by 21 December 2020 and from then on, NRAs will need to follow them closely.