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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 as regards rules for wholesale roaming markets PDF (617 KB) DOC (94 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In particular, the current functioning of wholesale roaming markets could affect competition and investments in home operators’ domestic markets due to excessive wholesale roaming charges compared to the domestic retail prices applied to end-users. This applies in particular for virtual operators and for smaller or net out-bound operators, thus making RLAH structurally unsustainable in the event that wholesale roaming prices are not reduced to a level comparable with that of the national wholesale prices.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The functioning of the wholesale roaming market should allow that operators recover all costs of providing regulated wholesale roaming services, including joint and common costs, without the application of extra costs to consumers, except in cases of abnormal or abusive use of RLAH by consumers themselves. This should preserve incentives to invest in visited networks and avoid any distortion of domestic competition in the visited markets caused by regulatory arbitrage by operators using wholesale roaming access remedies to compete in domestic visited markets.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) With regard to rules on wholesale charges, regulatory obligations at Union level should be maintained since any measure that enables RLAH across the Union without addressing the level of the wholesale costs associated with providing these services could risk disrupting the internal market for roaming services and would not encourage more competition, thereby preserving the oligopolistic nature that characterises wholesale roaming markets.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) While ensuring the confidentiality of business and commercial secrets and in order to monitor and supervise the application of Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 and developments in wholesale roaming markets, national regulatory authorities should be entitled, where appropriate, to require information on wholesale roaming agreements that do not provide for the application of the maximum wholesale roaming charges. They should also be allowed to require information on the adoption and application of conditions in wholesale agreements aimed at preventing permanent roaming and on any anomalous or abusive use of wholesale roaming access for purposes others than providing regulated roaming services to roaming providers’ customers travelling within the Union.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) It is necessary to monitor and regularly review the functioning of wholesale roaming markets and their interrelationship with the retail roaming market, taking into account competitive and technological developments and traffic flows. In particular, in its biennial report, the Commission, in consultation with BEREC and the national authorities, should consider whether the RLAH has any impact on the tariff plans put forward by operators to customers and ensure that no activation fees are charged for roaming services. In addition, the Commission's biennial report should evaluate the ability of the operators of the host networks to recover all costs arising from the provision of wholesale roaming services. In order to properly assess how roaming markets will adapt to RLAH rules, sufficient data should be gathered on functioning of these markets after the implementation of these rules.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In order to assess the competitive developments in Union-wide roaming markets and to report regularly on changes in actual wholesale roaming charges for unbalanced traffic between roaming providers, BEREC should be given the task of collecting data from national regulatory authorities on the actual charges applied for balanced and unbalanced traffic respectively. It should also collect data on cases where parties to a wholesale agreement have opted out from the application of maximum wholesale roaming charges or have implemented measures at wholesale level that are aimed at preventing permanent roaming or anomalous or abusive use of wholesale roaming access for purposes other than the provision of regulated roaming services to roaming providers’ customers while the latter are periodically travelling within the Union. The national authorities should also ensure that operators do not charge activation fees for roaming.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. The average wholesale charge that the visited network operator may levy on the roaming provider for the provision of a regulated roaming call originating on that visited network, inclusive, among others, of origination, transit and termination costs, shall not exceed a safeguard limit of EUR 0.0425 per minute as of 15 June 2017 and shall, without prejudice to Article 19, remain at EUR 0.0425 until 30 June 2022