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1999 COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT ASPECTS

1999 COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT ASPECTS. COMMISSION GREEN PAPER ON RADIO SPECTRUM POLICY: DECEMBER 1998 Sought views on: the need for strategic planning at EU level; how to establish priorities for EU action; availability of information on spectrum use;

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1999 COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT ASPECTS

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  1. 1999 COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW • SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT ASPECTS

  2. COMMISSION GREEN PAPER ON RADIO SPECTRUM POLICY: DECEMBER 1998 • Sought views on: • the need for strategic planning at EU level; • how to establish priorities for EU action; • availability of information on spectrum use; • refarming measures at European level; • achieving better compliance with CEPT measures; • use of economically-based spectrum management tools; • measures to improve EU solidarity at WRCs and ensure compliance with ECPs.

  3. COMMISSION COMMUNICATION: “NEXT STEPS IN RADIO SPECTRUM POLICY” : NOVEMBER 1999 • Main Proposals: • establishment of Spectrum Policy Expert Group; • establishment of a legalbase, through a European Parliament and Council Decision, to provide a general framework for addressing spectrum policy issues; • Implementation of CEPT measures could be made compulsory through proposed Decision; • production of guidelines on best practice in radio spectrum assignment;

  4. Licensing Directive to be adapted to allow spectrum trading; • 1999 Review to consider how far general authorisations can replace specific licences; • legal obligation on Member States to make publicly available essential information and common approach to presentation; • Council should formally endorse ECPs for WRCs agreed through CEPT.

  5. 1999 COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW: SPECTRUM ASPECTS • Chapter 4.1 Licensing and authorisation • Use of general authorisations as basis for licensing communications networks and services with specific authorisations reserved for assignment of radio spectrum and numbers. • Chapter 4.3 :Management of Radio Spectrum • (Commission position) • Administrative pricing and auctioning of radio spectrum can help ensure efficient use subject to clarification on conditions of implementation.

  6. Member States should be encouraged as far as possible to use revenue raisedtoincrease spectrum efficiency e.g. for refarming. • Licensing Directive should be amended to allow Member States to make provision for secondary trading, subject to safeguards. • Dialogue with Member States should continue on allocation and assignment issues.

  7. PROVISIONAL UK VIEWS • We welcome Communication which is very much in line with UK response to Green Paper. In particular : • recognition of importance of spectrum as an economic resource; • support for role of CEPT and ITU. • We agree that • selective Community intervention can be valuable in providing a stimulus to process of spectrum harmonisation through CEPT;

  8. there is value in advisory body such as SPEG, though should not be too unwieldy. • We seek clarification on other areas e.g. • how will proposed Decision work? • what will it add to current arrangements ? • How will it relate to normal political decisiontaking process? • how practical is idea that Council of Ministers should formally endorse European Common Proposals for WRCs? • use of general authorisations rather than individual licences.

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