BEREC Report on the outcome of the public consultation on the draft Work Programme for 2019

During its 36^th Plenary Meeting (3-5 October 2018 in Portoroz, Slovenia) BEREC approved for public consultation the draft BEREC Work Programme 2019 (WP 2019). The role of the public consultation is to increase transparency and to provide BEREC with valuable feedback from all interested parties. Indeed, this public consultation on the draft document follows BEREC’s initial public consultation for inputs to the WP 2019, which closed on 20 April 2018 and prompted significant stakeholder engagement at the time.

In accordance with BEREC’s policy on public consultations, the current report is a summary of how stakeholders’ views have been taken into account. In addition, BEREC also publishes all individual contributions on its website, taking into account stakeholders’ requests for confidentiality. The public consultation was open from 10 October to 7 November 2018. BEREC also held a public hearing on the WP 2019 on 17 October 2018, organised as part of the 6^th BEREC Stakeholder Forum meeting, which was open to the participation of all interested parties.

This document, then, summarises the responses received to the public consultation and presents BEREC’s position with regard to suggestions and proposals put forward in those responses, as relevant. In total 18 responses were received, 2 of which are considered as confidential, based on the request of the respective respondents.

The 16 non-confidential contributions were received from the following stakeholders: National Association of ISPs in Romania (ANISP), European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), EchoStar Mobile, European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), European Digital Rights (EDRi), European Emergency Number Association (EENA), Facebook, FTTH Council Europe, Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), Liberty Global, Microsoft, Mobile and Wireless Forum, MVNO Europe, Open Fiber, Patrick Leask, and United Group.

BEREC welcomes all contributions and thanks all stakeholders for their submissions. While the confidential submissions are presented in summary form in this document, they are not attributed to the stakeholder by name. The non-confidential contributions received from stakeholders will be published in their entirety on the BEREC website.