Company: LBTYK
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001570585-25-000021
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Company: Liberty Global Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 qualitative and quantitative insights with methods such as shorter-term pulse surveys and narrower focus groups. This approach informs decision making across key employee focus areas, including for example, well-being, work-from-home opportunities and skills development. 

Additional information on our workforce and our commitment to our employees is made available in Liberty Global’s Annual Corporate Responsibility Report, which we expect to be published on our website during the second half of 2025. The contents of this report are not incorporated by reference herein. 

Regulatory Matters 

Overview 

Broadband internet, video distribution, fixed-line telephony and mobile businesses are regulated in each of the countries in which we operate. The scope of regulation varies from country to country, although in some significant respects, regulation in E.U. markets is harmonized under the regulatory structure of the E.U.

Of the six countries in our footprint, five are part of the E.U.: the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands (nonconsolidated joint venture), Belgium, Luxembourg and Slovakia. Our other operations are in the U.K. (nonconsolidated joint venture), which generally enacts rules similar to that of the E.U. 

The U.K. formally left the E.U. on January 31, 2020, commonly referred to as “Brexit”. On December 24, 2020, the U.K. and the E.U. reached the “Trade and Cooperation Agreement”, referred to as the “E.U.-U.K. Agreement”. Principles on state aid are also contained in the E.U.-U.K. Agreement to prevent either side from granting unfair subsidies and to provide a dispute settlement mechanism to ensure businesses from the E.U. and the U.K. compete on a level playing field. In the telecommunications sector, the U.K. and the E.U. have agreed to maintain the existing levels of liberalization in their markets, including standard provisions on authorizations, access to and use of telecoms networks, interconnection, fair and transparent regulation and the allocation of scarce resources. The E.U.-U.K. Agreement contains measures to encourage cooperation and promote fair and transparent rates for international mobile roaming. However, the U.K. previously introduced a number of measures aimed at providing safeguards for consumers, which continue to apply. Such measures include limits on the amount that customers can be charged for using mobile data abroad before having to opt in if they wish to use more data and alert warnings as customers reach various milestones in their data allowances. Additionally, the Northern Irish Protocol regulates the relationship between Northern Ireland and the Republic