Notice for the launch of the public consultations on draft BEREC Report on OTT services

During its 24th plenary meeting (1-2 October 2015, Riga) BEREC approved for public consultation the draft report on OTT services.
This BEREC draft report provides an analysis of OTT services, their definition and their impact on the electronic communications sector, both in terms of competition and consumer protection, as well as their impact on the current EU regulatory framework for electronic communications (hereafter: ECN/S Framework). This report is focused on the relation between OTT services and ECSs. Although OTT services are often related with net neutrality in the public debate, this latter topic is covered in specialized reports that specifically focus on regulatory issues arising from the use of traffic management by ECN/S operators. In light of the extended work done by BEREC in this area, net neutrality is not addressed in depth in this document.

The public consultation on the draft document will run from 5 October until 2 November, 2015.
Stakeholders are invited to send their contributions to: [email protected].
Please provide your contribution in a Word document, preferably in English, in order to speed up the processing. The role of the public consultation is to increase transparency and to provide BEREC with valuable feedback from all interested parties. In accordance with the BEREC’s policy on public consultations, BEREC will publish a report summarising how stakeholders’ views have been taken into account. In addition, BEREC will also publish all individual contributions on its website, taking into account stakeholders’ requests for confidentiality, which should be clearly indicated in the contributions submitted (if any).