Public consultation 06/12 on non-discrimination

Run from 1 to 30 March 2012

In 2012 BEREC will review and update the three Common Positions (CPs) approved by the European Regulators Group (ERG) on key wholesale access products – wholesale unbundled access (ERG (06) 70 rev1), wholesale broadband access (ERG (06) 69 rev1)and wholesale leased lines (ERG (07) 54 ).in relation to non-discrimination, access (including issues relating to NGA), pricing and other issues.

As a first step in the process of the review and updating the afore-mentioned CPs, BEREC held a public consultation on its draft high level principles of non-discrimination.

During the one-month consultation period BEREC also held a public workshop with interested stakeholders.

The consultation closed on 30 March and BEREC received 12 responses from the following organisations:

·         Bouygues Telecom

·         British Telecom (BT)

·         Deutsche Telecom (DT)

·         ECTA

·         ETNO

·         EWE

·         Federation of Communication Services (FCS)

·         FTTH Council

·         QSC AG

·         Telecom Italia (TI)

·         VATM

·         WIND

The summary of the comments received and explanation how they will be reflected in the final document will be published in the forthcoming months.

BEREC Office, 3 August 2012