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Mr President, I wish to begin by thanking Mrs Toia for her report. Electronic communications play a key role in developing the European knowledge-based economy, fostering innovation and creating value for customers. When fully implemented, the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications will enable innovative services with competitive prices to develop on a level playing field throughout the internal market.
I would like to support the Commission in monitoring and enforcing the implementation process of the EU regulatory framework in the Member States. Currently, the establishment of the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications has been a success story of the internal market, the field being one that has proven to be most beneficial for clients. This success has been demonstrated by a decrease in prices and an increase in services in the electronic communications field.
However, the regulatory framework has also encountered problems, owing to its slow implementation in many Member States. On the one hand, these problems are reflected in numerous ongoing infringement procedures that the Commission has initiated against Member States who fail to transpose parts of the framework. On the other hand, some Member States’ national regulatory authorities might even have done too much. Efficient operators and efficient markets should not be penalised. In some Member States over-regulation has led to draconian competition where no operator generates any revenues. Regulation should be there to please the customers, not only the competitors.
The Commission should continue efficient monitoring of the implementation of the whole electronic communications framework and it should be completed within the shortest time possible. Once fully implemented, it is also very important that the monitoring task be shifted from the national regulatory authorities to the competition authorities. In this respect, we should put more trust in competition law.
I urge the Commission to lower exorbitant international roaming charges – such as the ones the Commissioner has already mentioned – and to further increase customer visibility in international pricing on the website. I heard that the website is updated only once every six months. That is not regularly enough.
Lastly, I wish to point out that functioning mobile number portability system is vital to healthy competition and there should be no rates – or at least
low rates – on carrying your number in every Member State. The deadline for realising the number portability operation should be shortened in those Member States where it is still a serious problem."@en1
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