7 Amendments of Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN related to 2016/0288(COD)
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 61
Recital 61
(61) In the case of specific and well defined digital exclusion areas, national regulatory authorities should have the possibility to organise a call for declarations of interest with the aim of identifying undertakings that are willing to invest in very high capacity networks. In the interests of predictable investment conditions, national regulatory authorities should be able to share information with undertakings expressing interest in deploying very high-speed networks on whether other types of network upgrades, including those below 100 Mbps download speed, are present or foreseen in the area in question. Taking into account the high potential of satellite technologies in bringing connectivity to digital exclusion areas in a cost-efficient manner, national regulatory authorities should inform satellite operators about such calls as well, in order to promote the use of the best technologies based on regional specificities.
Amendment 217 #
(103) Ensuring ubiquitous connectivity in each Member State is essential for economic and social development, participation in public life and social and territorial cohesion. As connectivity becomes an integral element to European society and welfare, EU-wide coverage should be achieved by relying on imposition by Member States of appropriate coverage requirements, which should be adapted to each area served and limited to proportionate burdens in order not to hinder deployment by service providers. Coverage of the territory as well as connectivity across Member States should be maximised and reliable, with a view to promote in-border and cross-border services and applications such as connected cars and e-health. Therefore, in order to increase regulatory certainty and predictability of investment needs and to guarantee proportionate and equitable connectivity for all citizens, application by competent authorities of coverage obligations should be coordinated at Union level. Considering national specificities, such coordination should be limited to general criteria to be used to define and measure coverage obligations, such as population density or topographical and topological features, while taking into account the principle of technology neutrality, in order to stimulate a combination of the best technologies per region.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 113
Recital 113
(113) With growing spectrum demand and new varying applications and technologies which necessitate more flexible access and use of spectrum, Member States should promote the shared use of spectrum by determining the most appropriate authorisation regimes for each scenario and by defining appropriate and transparent rules and conditions therefor. In this process, Member States should guarantee the unhampered continuation of existing services making use of spectrum, such as satellite connectivity of different nature, notably communication, earth observation and geo-navigation. Shared use of spectrum increasingly ensures its effective and efficient use by allowing several independent users or devices to access the same frequency band under various types of legal regimes so as to make additional spectrum resources available, raise usage efficiency and facilitate spectrum access for new users. Shared use can be based on general authorisations or licence-exempt use allowing, under specific sharing conditions, several users to access and use the same spectrum in different geographic areas or at different moments in time. It can also be based on individual rights of use under arrangements such as licenced shared access where all users (with an existing user and new users) agree on the terms and conditions for shared access, under the supervision of the competent authorities, in such a way as to ensure a minimum guaranteed radio transmission quality. When allowing shared use under different authorisation regimes, Member States should not set widely diverging durations for such use under different authorisation regimes.
Amendment 487 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 4
Article 22 – paragraph 4
4. When national regulatory authorities take measures pursuant to paragraph 3, they shall do so according to an efficient, objective, transparent, technology neutral and non- discriminatory procedure, whereby no undertaking is a priori excluded. Failure to provide information pursuant to paragraph 1(b) or to respond to the call for interest pursuant to paragraph 3 may be considered as misleading information pursuant to Articles 20 or 21.
Amendment 624 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall facilitate the use of radio spectrum, including shared use, under general authorisations and limit the granting of individual rights of use for radio spectrum to situations where such rights are necessary to maximise efficient use in the light of demand and, taking into account the criteria set out in the second subparagraph and the continuity of existing services relying on the same radio spectrum. In all other cases, they shall set out the conditions for the use of radio spectrum in a general authorisation.
Amendment 641 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – indent 2
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – indent 2
- to prevent impediments caused by alternative users, for example to services already licensed to operate use the spectrum band;
Amendment 644 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – indent 4
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – indent 4
- where that principle still applies, to protect against in-band and out-of-band interference.