Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 Dece... (32018L1972)
Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast)Text with EEA relevance.
- DIRECTIVE (EU) 2018/1972 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
- of 11 December 2018
- establishing the European Electronic Communications Code
- (Recast)
- (Text with EEA relevance)
- PART I
- FRAMEWORK (GENERAL RULES FOR THE ORGANISATION OF THE SECTOR)
- TITLE I
- SCOPE, AIM AND OBJECTIVES, DEFINITIONS
- CHAPTER I
- Subject matter, aim and definitions
- Article 1
- Subject matter, scope and aims
- Article 2
- Definitions
- CHAPTER II
- Objectives
- Article 3
- General objectives
- Article 4
- Strategic planning and coordination of radio spectrum policy
- TITLE II
- INSTITUTIONAL SET-UP AND GOVERNANCE
- CHAPTER I
- National regulatory and other competent authorities
- Article 5
- National regulatory and other competent authorities
- Article 6
- Independence of national regulatory and other competent authorities
- Article 7
- Appointment and dismissal of members of national regulatory authorities
- Article 8
- Political independence and accountability of the national regulatory authorities
- Article 9
- Regulatory capacity of national regulatory authorities
- Article 10
- Participation of national regulatory authorities in BEREC
- Article 11
- Cooperation with national authorities
- CHAPTER II
- General authorisation
- Section 1
- General part
- Article 12
- General authorisation of electronic communications networks and services
- Article 13
- Conditions attached to the general authorisation and to the rights of use for radio spectrum and for numbering resources, and specific obligations
- Article 14
- Declarations to facilitate the exercise of rights to install facilities and rights of interconnection
- Section 2
- General authorisation rights and obligations
- Article 15
- Minimum list of rights derived from the general authorisation
- Article 16
- Administrative charges
- Article 17
- Accounting separation and financial reports
- Section 3
- Amendment and withdrawal
- Article 18
- Amendment of rights and obligations
- Article 19
- Restriction or withdrawal of rights
- CHAPTER III
- Provision of information, surveys and consultation mechanism
- Article 20
- Information request to undertakings
- Article 21
- Information required with regard to the general authorisation, rights of use and specific obligations
- Article 22
- Geographical surveys of network deployments
- Article 23
- Consultation and transparency mechanism
- Article 24
- Consultation of interested parties
- Article 25
- Out-of-court dispute resolution
- Article 26
- Dispute resolution between undertakings
- Article 27
- Resolution of cross-border disputes
- Article 28
- Radio Spectrum Coordination among Member States
- TITLE III
- IMPLEMENTATION
- Article 29
- Penalties
- Article 30
- Compliance with the conditions of the general authorisation or of rights of use for radio spectrum and for numbering resources and compliance with specific obligations
- Article 31
- Right of appeal
- TITLE IV
- INTERNAL MARKET PROCEDURES
- CHAPTER I
- Article 32
- Consolidating the internal market for electronic communications
- Article 33
- Procedure for the consistent application of remedies
- Article 34
- Implementing provisions
- CHAPTER II
- Consistent radio spectrum assignment
- Article 35
- Peer review process
- Article 36
- Harmonised assignment of radio spectrum
- Article 37
- Joint authorisation process to grant individual rights of use for radio spectrum
- CHAPTER III
- Harmonisation procedures
- Article 38
- Harmonisation procedures
- Article 39
- Standardisation
- TITLE V
- SECURITY
- Article 40
- Security of networks and services
- Article 41
- Implementation and enforcement
- PART II
- NETWORKS
- TITLE I
- MARKET ENTRY AND DEPLOYMENT
- CHAPTER I
- Fees
- Article 42
- Fees for rights of use for radio spectrum and rights to install facilities
- CHAPTER II
- Access to land
- Article 43
- Rights of way
- Article 44
- Co-location and sharing of network elements and associated facilities for providers of electronic communications networks
- CHAPTER III
- Access to radio spectrum
- Section 1
- Authorisations
- Article 45
- Management of radio spectrum
- Article 46
- Authorisation of the use of radio spectrum
- Article 47
- Conditions attached to individual rights of use for radio spectrum
- Section 2
- Rights of use
- Article 48
- Granting of individual rights of use for radio spectrum
- Article 49
- Duration of rights
- Article 50
- Renewal of individual rights of use for harmonised radio spectrum
- Article 51
- Transfer or lease of individual rights of use for radio spectrum
- Article 52
- Competition
- Section 3
- Procedures
- Article 53
- Coordinated timing of assignments
- Article 54
- Coordinated timing of assignments for specific 5G bands
- Article 55
- Procedure for limiting the number of rights of use to be granted for radio spectrum
- CHAPTER IV
- Deployment and use of wireless network equipment
- Article 56
- Access to radio local area networks
- Article 57
- Deployment and operation of small-area wireless access points
- Article 58
- Technical regulations on electromagnetic fields
- TITLE II
- ACCESS
- CHAPTER I
- General provisions, access principles
- Article 59
- General framework for access and interconnection
- Article 60
- Rights and obligations of undertakings
- CHAPTER II
- Access and interconnection
- Article 61
- Powers and responsibilities of the national regulatory and other competent authorities with regard to access and interconnection
- Article 62
- Conditional access systems and other facilities
- CHAPTER III
- Market analysis and significant market power
- Article 63
- Undertakings with significant market power
- Article 64
- Procedure for the identification and definition of markets
- Article 65
- Procedure for the identification of transnational markets
- Article 66
- Procedure for the identification of transnational demand
- Article 67
- Market analysis procedure
- CHAPTER IV
- Access remedies imposed on undertakings with significant market power
- Article 68
- Imposition, amendment or withdrawal of obligations
- Article 69
- Obligation of transparency
- Article 70
- Obligations of non-discrimination
- Article 71
- Obligation of accounting separation
- Article 72
- Access to civil engineering
- Article 73
- Obligations of access to, and use of, specific network elements and associated facilities
- Article 74
- Price control and cost accounting obligations
- Article 75
- Termination rates
- Article 76
- Regulatory treatment of new very high capacity network elements
- Article 77
- Functional separation
- Article 78
- Voluntary separation by a vertically integrated undertaking
- Article 79
- Commitments procedure
- Article 80
- Wholesale-only undertakings
- Article 81
- Migration from legacy infrastructure
- Article 82
- BEREC guidelines on very high capacity networks
- CHAPTER V
- Regulatory control of retail services
- Article 83
- Regulatory control of retail services
- PART III
- SERVICES
- TITLE I
- UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATIONS
- Article 84
- Affordable universal service
- Article 85
- Provision of affordable universal service
- Article 86
- Availability of universal service
- Article 87
- Status of the existing universal service
- Article 88
- Control of expenditure
- Article 89
- Cost of universal service obligations
- Article 90
- Financing of universal service obligations
- Article 91
- Transparency
- Article 92
- Additional mandatory services
- TITLE II
- NUMBERING RESOURCES
- Article 93
- Numbering resources
- Article 94
- Procedure for granting of rights of use for numbering resources
- Article 95
- Fees for rights of use for numbering resources
- Article 96
- Missing children and child helpline hotlines
- Article 97
- Access to numbers and services
- TITLE III
- END-USER RIGHTS
- Article 98
- Exemption of certain microenterprises
- Article 99
- Non-discrimination
- Article 100
- Fundamental rights safeguard
- Article 101
- Level of harmonisation
- Article 102
- Information requirements for contracts
- Article 103
- Transparency, comparison of offers and publication of information
- Article 104
- Quality of service related to internet access services and publicly available interpersonal communications services
- Article 105
- Contract duration and termination
- Article 106
- Provider switching and number portability
- Article 107
- Bundled offers
- Article 108
- Availability of services
- Article 109
- Emergency communications and the single European emergency number
- Article 110
- Public warning system
- Article 111
- Equivalent access and choice for end-users with disabilities
- Article 112
- Directory enquiry services
- Article 113
- Interoperability of car radio and consumer radio receivers and consumer digital television equipment
- Article 114
- ‘Must carry’ obligations
- Article 115
- Provision of additional facilities
- Article 116
- Adaptation of annexes
- PART IV
- FINAL PROVISIONS
- Article 117
- Exercise of the delegation
- Article 118
- Committee
- Article 119
- Exchange of information
- Article 120
- Publication of information
- Article 121
- Notification and monitoring
- Article 122
- Review procedures
- Article 123
- Specific review procedure on end-user rights
- Article 124
- Transposition
- Article 125
- Repeal
- Article 126
- Entry into force
- Article 127
- Addressees
- ANNEX I
- LIST OF CONDITIONS WHICH MAY BE ATTACHED TO GENERAL AUTHORISATIONS, RIGHTS OF USE FOR RADIO SPECTRUM AND RIGHTS OF USE FOR NUMBERING RESOURCES
- A. General conditions which may be attached to a general authorisation
- B. Specific conditions which may be attached to a general authorisation for the provision of electronic communications networks
- C. Specific conditions which may be attached to a general authorisation for the provision of electronic communications services, except number-independent interpersonal communications services
- D. Conditions which may be attached to rights of use for radio spectrum
- E. Conditions which may be attached to rights of use for numbering resources
- ANNEX II
- CONDITIONS FOR ACCESS TO DIGITAL TELEVISION AND RADIO SERVICES BROADCAST TO VIEWERS AND LISTENERS IN THE UNION
- Part I
- Conditions for conditional access systems to be applied in accordance with Article 62(1)
- Part II
- Other facilities to which conditions may be applied under point (D) of Article 61(2)
- ANNEX III
- CRITERIA FOR THE DETERMINATION OF WHOLESALE VOICE TERMINATION RATES
- ANNEX IV
- CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING CO-INVESTMENT OFFERS
- ANNEX V
- MINIMUM SET OF SERVICES WHICH THE ADEQUATE BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 84(3) SHALL BE CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING
- ANNEX VI
- DESCRIPTION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 88 (CONTROL OF EXPENDITURE), ARTICLE 115 (ADDITIONAL FACILITIES) AND ARTICLE 106 (PROVIDER SWITCHING AND NUMBER PORTABILITY)
- Part A
- Facilities and services referred to in Articles 88 and 115
- Part B
- Facilities referred to in Article 115
- Part C
- Implementation of the number portability provisions referred to in Article 106
- ANNEX VII
- CALCULATING THE NET COST, IF ANY, OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATIONS AND ESTABLISHING ANY COMPENSATION OR SHARING MECHANISM IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 89 AND 90
- Part A
- Calculation of net cost
- Part B
- Compensation of net costs of universal service obligations
- ANNEX VIII
- INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS TO BE PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 102 (INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTRACTS)
- ANNEX IX
- INFORMATION TO BE PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 103 (TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION)
- ANNEX X
- QUALITY OF SERVICE PARAMETERS
- Quality-of-Service Parameters, Definitions and Measurement Methods referred to in Article 104
- Version number of ETSI EG 202 057-1 is 1.3.1 (July 2008)
- ANNEX XI
- INTEROPERABILITY OF CAR RADIO RECEIVERS AND CONSUMER DIGITAL TELEVISION EQUIPMENT REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 113
- ANNEX XII
- Part A
- Repealed Directives with list of the successive amendments thereto
- (referred to in Article 125)
- Part B
- Time-limits for transposition into national law and dates of application
- (referred to in Article 125)
- ANNEX XIII
- CORRELATION TABLE
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