Public consultation on the Draft BEREC Work Programme 2026

Deadline: 3 November 2025, 17:00 CET

Background

In January this year, BEREC adopted the Outline BEREC Work Programme 2026, which reflected the objectives of BEREC's work in the upcoming year.

A first call for input to the Work Programme 2026 was launched with stakeholders from 3 March to 10 April.

Considering the early input received, during the 64th BEREC plenary meeting (2-3 October 2025), the Board of Regulators has approved the Draft BEREC Work Programme 2026 for public consultation.

The four objectives in Article 3(2) of the EECC remain the foundation for the work set out in BEREC’s annual work programmes and are the guiding force for the Work Programme 2026. These four objectives, intended to promote also efficient investment and innovation, serve as the strategic foundation of the assignments set out in BEREC’s multi-annual work programmes and its guiding force. These are:

  1. Promoting connectivity and access to VHCN,
  2. Promoting competition and efficient investment,
  3. Contributing to the development of the internal market, and
  4. Promoting the interests of the EU citizens.

In its 2030 Action Plan BEREC developed these priorities into building blocks to shape the regulatory activities in the coming years.

The objectives of this Work Programme are based on the BEREC Strategy 2026-2030, with a close focus on its high-level strategic priorities:

  1. Promoting full connectivity and the Digital Single Market,
  2. Supporting competition-driven and open digital ecosystems,
  3. Empowering end-users,
  4. Contributing to environmentally sustainable, secure and resilient digital infrastructures, and
  5. Strengthening BEREC’s capabilities and continuous improvement.

This Work Programme seeks to be consistent with the vision, targets and roadmaps for Europe’s digital transformation by 2030, set out in the Digital Compass and the Policy Programme ‘Path to the Digital Decade’, the EU Global Gateway strategy (2021) and the European Green Deal (2020). In addition, the Work Programme 2026 aims to be aligned with the new priorities of the European Commission for electronic communications. The European Commission introduced an EU Competitiveness Compass for the EU in January 2025 as a roadmap to restore Europe's global competitiveness while ensuring secure and sustainable prosperity.

This Work Programme was developed against the backdrop of the review of the regulatory framework for electronic communications and during the preparations of the upcoming DNA, planned to be submitted to the co-legislators by the end of 2025. Together with the review of the EECC and the BEREC Regulation, this may allow for simplifying and further harmonising and upgrading the current sectoral rules. This Work Programme focuses on the upcoming 2026 legislative discussions, providing expert and independent advice to the co-legislators and the European Commission.

Submit your contributions

The incoming BEREC Chair 2026, Marko Mismas (AKOS, Slovenia) encourages all stakeholders and interested parties to provide their views and contributions to the Draft BEREC Work Programme 2026 via e-mail to [email protected] before 3 November 2025, 17:00 CET.

After submitting the contribution, an acknowledgement email will be sent to you. In case you do not receive the automatic reply after submitting your contribution, please contact the BEREC Office.

Please note

Contributions should be sent preferably in English and, in order to facilitate processing of the responses, the comments provided should clearly refer to the certain paragraphs of the document.

We strongly encourage all stakeholders to submit their contributions as early as possible. Contributions received after the above-mentioned deadline will not be taken into account.

All contributions received will be published on the BEREC website, taking into account requests for confidentiality and publication of personal data. Any such requests should be clearly indicated and clearly stating which information is considered confidential.

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