Presentation of the draft BEREC Guidance on the regulatory accounting approach to the economic replicability test

During its 20^th plenary meeting (25-26 September 2014, Rome) BEREC approved for public consultation the Draft BEREC Guidance on the regulatory accounting approach to the economic replicability test (ex-ante margin squeeze test). The document was presented at a public debriefing held in Brussels on 2 October 2014.

The public consultation will run from 29 September to 24 October 2014. All stakeholders are invited to send their contributions by 24 October 2014 to: [email protected], preferably in English, in order to speed up the processing of the contributions. BEREC will also hold a public hearing on the draft on 16 October 2014 organised within the 2^nd BEREC Stakeholder Forum Meeting.

The 2^nd BEREC Stakeholder Forum Meetingis open for participation to all interested parties but a prior registration is required for all those wishing to attend it. Due to the limited number of seats, the requests for participation will be satisfied on the basis of the “first registered - first served” principle.The registration for participation should be done via the BEREC web-site, not later than 3 October 2014.

The purpose of the draft Guidance document is to set out the possible methodologies for NRAs to run the economic replicability test in accordance with current practice with ex-ante/sector specific margin squeeze tests.

The Guidance document aims to compare the similarities and differences between the ERT and ex-ante margin squeeze tests and therefore describes the common methodologies already used by NRAs in practice. The Guidance document is taking into consideration all existing documents of the Commission, BEREC, ERG and also contains a chapter on margin squeeze tests in competition law practice (including ECJ jurisdiction).

For more detailed information, please consult the document.