Martin Cave
Implementation of the new european telecommunications regime
Member states of the European Union, new and old, are now implementing the package of new regulatory arrangements for electronic communication services which was enacted in April 2002 and came into effect in July 2003. The processes involved are lengthy and require complex interactions between National Regulatory Agencies (NRAs) and the European Commission in Brussels. But enough experience has been gathered to make some preliminary judgements about the operation of the process. This note first gives a brief account of the new regime and then makes some comments about its operation in practice. These comments are based on an examination of the NRAs notifications to Brussels on individual markets, and on the author’s experience in providing support to a number of NRA in implementing the procedures.