Commission Staff Working Document on the Evaluation Report of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and its office

This Staff Working Document responds to the requirement, under Article 25 of the BEREC Regulation, for the Commission to publish an evaluation report on the experience acquired with the operation of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and its Office. The report must be published within three years of the effective start of operations of BEREC and its Office. The same Article provides that the evaluation report examines, taking account of the overall objectives of BEREC and the subsequent roles and tasks of BEREC and its Office, how efficiently, based on the experience so far, BEREC has succeeded in its role and thus contributed to the development of the internal market for electronic communications. Therefore, the report assesses, in particular the working practices, organisation of BEREC's and its Office and, remit and where appropriate, makes recommendations for improvements.

In order to ensure an impartial evaluation, the European Commission launched a call for tender for an external study on the evaluation of BEREC and the BEREC Office at the end of 2011. Following the tendering procedure, the contract was awarded to PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PWC). The final study report provided by the consultant is annexed to this staff working document.

BEREC's own views on the evaluation exercise were published here.