Activities of Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU related to 2008/0187(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 717/2007 (mobile telephone networks) and Directive 2002/21/EC (electronic communications) (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 40 a (new)
Recital 40 a (new)
(40a) The Commission should, in consultation with the ERG, investigate and assess whether the competitive structure of the mobile market is leading to uncompetitive roaming prices, and should, within the electronic communications regulatory framework, propose a regulatory solution to address high entry and expansion barriers. The Commission should report to the European Parliament on its assessment of the proposed alternative regulatory approaches which would address structural problems in mobile markets, which lead to high and uncompetitive prices for pan-European roaming services.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6 a – paragraph 1
Article 6 a – paragraph 1
1. Home providers shall ensure that their roaming customers are kept adequately informed of the charges which apply to their use of regulated data roaming services, in waysa clear and comprehensible manner which facilitates the customers' understanding of the financial consequences of such use and permit them to monitor and control their expenditure on regulated data roaming services in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6 a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Such personalised tariff information shall be delivered to the roaming customer's mobile telephone or other device, when the roaming customer initiates a regulated data roaming service in a particular Member State other than that of his home network for the first time after havingevery time that customer entereds that Member State. It shall be provided without undue delay and free of charge, by an appropriate means adapted to facilitate its receipt and easy comprehension.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. By 1 Julanuary 2010 at the latest, the home providers shall provide a 'Cut-Off Limit' facility whereby they offer and keep available to all their roaming customers, free of charge, the possibility to specify in advance aoffer to all their roaming customers the opportunity to opt deliberately and free of charge for a ‘cut-off limit’ facility. Each home provider shall define this ‘cut off limit’ facility by a maximum monthly financial limit. This maximum monthly financial limit, shall not exceed 50 EUR (excluding VAT) and shall be expressed in the currency in which the roaming customer is billed, for their outstanding charges for regulated data roaming services.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Such a cut-off limit shall respect Community data protection laws and be technologically neutral. In addition, the home provider may offer to its roaming customers other ‘cut- off limits’ with different, namely, higher, lower or maximum monthly financial limits such as flat rates.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 b (new)
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 b (new)
By 1 March 2010, all roaming customers who did not express their choice shall be automatically placed on a ‘cut-off limit’ of 50 EUR (excluding VAT).
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Article 6a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
From 1 March 2010, whenever a roaming customer requests to opt for or to remove a ‘cut off limit’ facility, the change must be made free of charge within one working day of receipt of the request, and shall not result in the imposition of conditions or restrictions on other elements of the subscription.
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 12 – point a a (new)
Article 1 – point 12 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
(aa) Article 7(3) shall be replaced by the following: 3. National regulatory authorities shall in preparation for the review provided for in Article 11, monitor developments in wholesale and retail charges for the provision to roaming customers of voice and data communications services, including SMS and MMS, including in the outermost regions referred to in Article 299(2) of the Treaty. National regulatory authorities shall monitor the quality of data services in terms of available minimum speed and reliability. National regulatory authorities shall also be alert to the particular case of involuntary roaming in the border regions of neighbouring Member States and monitor whether traffic steering techniques are used to the disadvantage of customers. They shall communicate the results of such monitoring to the Commission, including separate information on corporate, post-paid and pre-paid customers, every six months."
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 14
Article 1 – point 14
Regulation (EC) No 717/2007
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall review the functioning of this Regulation and, after a full consultation, shall report to the European Parliament and the Council no later than 31 December 2011. The Commission shall evaluate in particular whether the objectives of this Regulation have been achieved. In itsso doing, report the Commission shall review, inter alia: – the developments in wholesale and retail charges for the provision to roaming customers of voice and data communication services, including SMS and MMS, and the corresponding developments in mobile communication services at national level in the different Member States, for pre-paid and post-paid customers separately; – the extent to which consumers have benefited through reductions in the price of roaming services or in other ways from reductions in the costs of the provision of roaming services; – the degree of competition including the competitive situation of smaller, independent or newly started operators; For this purpose the Commission may use the information supplied pursuant to Article 7(3), and shall, if appropriate, include recommendations regarding the need further to regulate these services. For this purpose the Commission may use the information supplied pursuant to Article 7(3).