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EU Review – UK Response

EU Review – UK Response. Stakeholder workshop 3 February 2006. EU Review – UK Response. Introductions Key themes Stakeholder responses & questions Next steps. UK response - intro. Government-Ofcom paper (DTI lead) Published by 10 February Wider stakeholder meeting early March

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EU Review – UK Response

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  1. EU Review – UK Response Stakeholder workshop 3 February 2006

  2. EU Review – UK Response • Introductions • Key themes • Stakeholder responses & questions • Next steps

  3. UK response - intro • Government-Ofcom paper (DTI lead) • Published by 10 February • Wider stakeholder meeting early March • Communication expected July

  4. Consistency • Lisbon ICT agenda • Infosecurity agenda – communication expected Spring 2006 • E-Commerce Directive – due for review in 2007 • Data Protection Directive – review due • Data Retention Directive • Television Without Frontiers Directive – currently under review • Fiscal policies, e.g. E-money and payments Directives • Premium Rate Services agenda – note workshop on 2/2/06 • Spam Agenda – Communication expected Spring 2006

  5. Scope • About right but watch interdependencies (previous slide) • Question need for a separate privacy Directive for ecomms. • Lessons learned from Ofcom’s SRT • Objectives still valid and should not be prioritised • Future Proof/tech neutral increasingly important

  6. Single market issues • Effective implementation essential (& enforcement) • Harmonisation • OK for genuine x-border services, e.g. VOIP, large business products • Do not support harmonisation of remedies – national discretion important • ERG best placed to achieve proportionate harmonisation

  7. Spectrum management • Support use of market mechanisms in principle • Trading should be encouraged • No explicit support of mandated bands for trading • Agnostic that bands need to be held back for pan-European services • Recognise exceptions, e.g. broadcasting, radio astronomy & satellite.

  8. Competition & Access • NGNs: regulatory holidays are not necessary and don’t work • Oligopolies • Coherent regulation across value chain

  9. Consumers • Voice USO – right time to have a “voice” USO rather than “fixed” or “mobile”? • Broadband USO – debate needed on scenarios • Disabled users – terminal equipment and equivalent services

  10. Privacy & Security • Telephony aspects ok (TPS & FPS) • Consent rules are data protection issue • Note Spam Communication • Network resilience as we move to IP • “Bad” internet traffic – link with e-Commerce Directive

  11. Institutional aspects • Spectrum management working well • Transparency - ERG, Commission, Process

  12. Other issues • No need for list of standards for interoperability • Special provisions for leased lines no longer needed • Fining powers – scope to increase • R&TTE – definitions

  13. Relevant markets • Any revision should be based on better regulation principles • E.g. scope for merging or grouping inter-related markets

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