BEREC events 2016

The BEREC Board of Regulators (BoR) held its 28th ordinary plenary meeting on 6 October 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
During the meeting the BoR discussed and/or approved the following documents:

Documents approved for publication

• BEREC Report on Regulatory Accounting in practice 2016;
• 17^th BEREC International Roaming Benchmark Data Report;
• BEREC report on the outcomes of the public consultation on the draft BEREC Common Position on Layer 2 Wholesale Access products;
• BEREC Common Position on Layer 2 Wholesale Access products;
• BEREC Report Case Studies on Migration from POTS/ISDN to IP on the Subscriber Access Line in Europe;
• BEREC Report on the outcomes of the public consultation on the draft BEREC Report on challenges and drivers of NGA roll out and infrastructure competition;
• BEREC Report on challenges and drivers of NGA roll out and infrastructure competition;
• BEREC Decision on confirmatory application for access to BEREC internal documents.

Documents approved for internal use

• Report on Regulatory treatment of termination rates for voice calls originated outside the EEA;
• Follow-up Report on Oligopoly Analysis and Regulation;
• BEREC Report on New Bundle Trends;
• BEREC Report from the USA study trip.

Documents approved for public consultation

• Draft BEREC Work Programme 2017

Discussion on topics of strategic importance

• Draft BEREC input to the European Commission implementing acts on fair use policy and sustainability of the abolition of retail roaming surcharges.

Documents submitted for information and/or consideration

The BoR took note of the information provided in the following Reports:

• Information on the electronic voting procedures since the last plenary meeting;
• 2016 BEREC Work Programme status update;
• BEREC Chair interventions/meetings since the Vienna Plenary meeting;
• Draft BEREC input to the EC regarding the implementing acts setting out the weighted average of maximum mobile TRs across EU;
• Draft agenda for the 4th BEREC Stakeholder Forum meeting (17 October 2016, Brussels);
• Draft outline for a study on net neutrality and draft tender specification.

Oral up-date on important topics

The BoR was briefed in relation to several other important topics, as follows:

• BEREC International activities
• Information from Chair including oral update on elections of Chair 2018 and Vice-Chairs for 2017
• Information from Commission including presentation on the legislative proposal on telecommunication regulatory framework;
• Framework review related developments;
• Review of the AVMS Directive;
• Media regulation;

Next meeting

The next ordinary meeting of the BoR will take place on 8 and 9 December 2016 in Berlin (Germany) and will be hosted by the German Federal Network Agency  (BNetzA).