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(21) Providers of international roaming services for calls made while roaming abroad as covered by this Regulation should have a period within which to adjust their retail prices voluntarily to comply with the Consumer Protection Tariff provided in this Regulation.
(21) Providers of international roaming services for calls made while roaming abroad as covered by this Regulation should have a period within which to adjust their retail prices voluntarily to comply with the Consumer Protection Tariff provided in this Regulation.
It is appropriate to allow a period of three months for this purpose, to permit market players to make the necessary adaptations.
It is appropriate to allow a period of three months for this purpose, to permit market players to make the necessary adaptations.
RECITAL 22
RECITAL 22
(22) Similarly, a maximum limit should be applied to the prices that roaming customers may be required to pay for the receipt of voice telephony calls while roaming abroad within the Community in order to ensure that those prices more closely reflect the cost of the provision of such a service, and to give customers greater certainty as to the charges they will incur when answering their mobile phone abroad.
(22) Similarly, a maximum limit should be applied to the prices that roaming customers may be required to pay for the receipt of voice telephony calls while roaming abroad within the Community in order to ensure that those prices more closely reflect the cost of the provision of such a service, and to give customers greater certainty as to the charges they will incur when answering their mobile phone abroad.
RECITAL 23
RECITAL 23
(23) This Regulation should not prejudice innovative offerings to consumers which are more favourable than the maximum per minute charges contained in this Regulation.
(23) This Regulation should not prejudice innovative offerings to consumers which are more favourable than the maximum per minute charges contained in this Regulation.
(23) This Regulation should not prejudice innovative offerings to consumers which are more favourable than the Consumer Protection Tariff contained in this Regulation and in fact encourages innovative offerings to roaming customers at rates below the Consumer Protection Tariff.
(23) This Regulation should not prejudice innovative offerings to consumers which are more favourable than the Consumer Protection Tariff contained in this Regulation and in fact encourages innovative offerings to roaming customers at rates below the Consumer Protection Tariff.
It is important to be clear that this Regulation does not require roaming charges to be reintroduced in those cases where they may have been abolished altogether (for example the current market that exists on an all island basis between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), nor does it require existing roaming charges to be maintained.
It is important to be clear that this Regulation does not require roaming charges to be reintroduced in those cases where they may have been abolished altogether (for example the current market that exists on an all island basis between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), nor does it require existing roaming charges to be maintained.
RECITAL 23 A (new)
RECITAL 23 A (new)
(23a) While traffic steering techniques may contribute towards ensuring that roaming customers always pay the lowest roaming price available, they could also limit their choice.
(23a) While traffic steering techniques may contribute towards ensuring that roaming customers always pay the lowest roaming price available, they could also limit their choice.
The roaming customer should always be able to manually choose a preferred visited network.
The roaming customer should always be able to manually choose a preferred visited network.
Explains the new Article 6a.
Explains the new Article 6a.
(24) The pricing requirements in this Regulation should apply regardless of whether roaming customers have a pre-paid or a post-paid contract with their home provider, to ensure that all users of mobile voice telephony may benefit from its provisions.
(24) The pricing requirements in this Regulation should apply regardless of whether roaming customers have a pre-paid or a post-paid contract with their home provider, to ensure that all users of mobile voice telephony may benefit from its provisions.
(24) The pricing requirements in this Regulation should apply regardless of whether roaming customers have a pre-paid or a post-paid contract with their home provider, and irrespective of whether the home provider is a reseller of mobile voice services or not, to ensure that all users of mobile voice telephony may benefit from its provisions.
(24) The pricing requirements in this Regulation should apply regardless of whether roaming customers have a pre-paid or a post-paid contract with their home provider, and irrespective of whether the home provider is a reseller of mobile voice services or not, to ensure that all users of mobile voice telephony may benefit from its provisions.
(26) In order to improve the transparency of retail prices for making and receiving roaming calls within the Community and to help roaming customers make decisions on the use of their mobile telephones while abroad, providers of mobile telephony services should enable their roaming customers easily to obtain information on the roaming charges applicable to them in the visited Member State concerned, on request and free of charge.
(26) In order to improve the transparency of retail prices for making and receiving roaming calls within the Community and to help roaming customers make decisions on the use of their mobile telephones while abroad, providers of mobile telephony services should enable their roaming customers easily to obtain information on the roaming charges applicable to them in the visited Member State concerned, on request and free of charge.
Also in the interest of transparency, each home provider should be required to offer the roaming customer as a free service, on request, a personalised calculation of the best available choice of tariff for him on the basis of his call profile .
Also in the interest of transparency, each home provider should be required to offer the roaming customer as a free service, on request, a personalised calculation of the best available choice of tariff for him on the basis of his call profile .
To optimise transparency and to strengthen competition in the sector, consumers should be able to obtain information easily about the most advantageous tariff for them, tailored to their call profile.
To optimise transparency and to strengthen competition in the sector, consumers should be able to obtain information easily about the most advantageous tariff for them, tailored to their call profile.
They should monitor retail price trends for voice and data transmission services and ensure that reductions in roaming charges under this Regulation are not offset by the cost of mobile telephone calls within the same Member State .
They should monitor retail price trends for voice and data transmission services and ensure that reductions in roaming charges under this Regulation are not offset by the cost of mobile telephone calls within the same Member State .
They should publish the results of this monitoring every six months.
They should publish the results of this monitoring every six months.
Information should be provided on corporate, post-paid and pre-paid customers separately.
Information should be provided on corporate, post-paid and pre-paid customers separately.
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(29) The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission 1 .
(29) The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission 1 .
OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p.
OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p.
Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L200, 22.7.2006, p.11).
Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L200, 22.7.2006, p.11).
Technical amendment regarding new comitology procedure.
Technical amendment regarding new comitology procedure.
RECITAL 29 A (new)
RECITAL 29 A (new)
(29a) In particular, the Commission should be empowered to adopt amendments to the annexes to this Regulation in order to adapt them to technical or market developments.
(29a) In particular, the Commission should be empowered to adopt amendments to the annexes to this Regulation in order to adapt them to technical or market developments.
Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
See justification to recital 19.
See justification to recital 19.
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(30) Since the objectives of the proposed action, to establish a common mechanism to ensure that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making or receiving voice calls, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators, cannot be achieved by the Member States in a secure, harmonised and timely manner and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.
(30) Since the objectives of the proposed action, to establish a common mechanism to ensure that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making or receiving voice calls, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators, cannot be achieved by the Member States in a secure, harmonised and timely manner and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.
In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in the same Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in the same Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
(30) Since the objectives of the proposed action, to establish a common mechanism to ensure that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making or receiving voice calls, by providing a maximum default price more closely related to the cost of providing the service, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators, cannot be achieved by the Member States in a secure, harmonised and timely manner and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.
(30) Since the objectives of the proposed action, to establish a common mechanism to ensure that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making or receiving voice calls, by providing a maximum default price more closely related to the cost of providing the service, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators, cannot be achieved by the Member States in a secure, harmonised and timely manner and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.
See justification to recital 14.
See justification to recital 14.
This Regulation introduces a common mechanism, called the European Home Market Approach, for ensuring that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making calls and receiving calls, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators.
This Regulation introduces a common mechanism, called the European Home Market Approach, for ensuring that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making calls and receiving calls, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators.
It lays down rules on the charges that may be levied by mobile operators for the provision of international roaming services for voice calls originating and terminating within the Community and applies both to charges levied between network operators at wholesale level and to charges levied by the home provider at retail level.
It lays down rules on the charges that may be levied by mobile operators for the provision of international roaming services for voice calls originating and terminating within the Community and applies both to charges levied between network operators at wholesale level and to charges levied by the home provider at retail level.
This Regulation introduces a common mechanism, called the European Home Market Approach, for ensuring that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making calls and receiving calls, by providing a Consumer Protection Tariff at retail level.
This Regulation introduces a common mechanism, called the European Home Market Approach, for ensuring that users of public mobile telephone networks when travelling within the Community do not pay excessive prices for international roaming services when making calls and receiving calls, by providing a Consumer Protection Tariff at retail level.
It also lays down rules to improve the provision of tariff information to users of roaming services, including data communication services, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators.
It also lays down rules to improve the provision of tariff information to users of roaming services, including data communication services, thereby achieving a high level of consumer protection while safeguarding competition between mobile operators.
This Regulation establishes rules in order to enhance price transparency and improve consumers' information regarding the prices of roaming services.
This Regulation establishes rules in order to enhance price transparency and improve consumers' information regarding the prices of roaming services.
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (A)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (A)
(a) “home provider” means the undertaking that provides the roaming customer with terrestrial public mobile telephony services at retail level ;
(a) “home provider” means the undertaking that provides the roaming customer with terrestrial public mobile telephony services at retail level ;
(a) “home provider” means the undertaking that provides the roaming customer with terrestrial public mobile telephony services;
(a) “home provider” means the undertaking that provides the roaming customer with terrestrial public mobile telephony services;
This amendment together with the following amendments to Article 2 aim at simplifying and clarifying the definitions proposed by the Commission.
This amendment together with the following amendments to Article 2 aim at simplifying and clarifying the definitions proposed by the Commission.
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (B)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (B)
(b) “home network” means the terrestrial public mobile network located within a Member State and used by the home provider for the provision of terrestrial public mobile telephony services to the roaming customer;
(b) “home network” means the terrestrial public mobile network located within a Member State and used by the home provider for the provision of terrestrial public mobile telephony services to the roaming customer;
(b) “home network” means the terrestrial public mobile telephony network located within a Member State and used by the home provider , whether as a reseller or not, for the provision of terrestrial public mobile telephony services to the roaming customer;
(b) “home network” means the terrestrial public mobile telephony network located within a Member State and used by the home provider , whether as a reseller or not, for the provision of terrestrial public mobile telephony services to the roaming customer;
To make explicit that mobile virtual network operators are included, as intended by the Commission proposal.
To make explicit that mobile virtual network operators are included, as intended by the Commission proposal.
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (C)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (C)
(c) “international roaming” means the use of a mobile telephone or other device by a roaming customer to make or receive calls, while outside the Member State in which the customer’s home network is located, by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
(c) “international roaming” means the use of a mobile telephone or other device by a roaming customer to make or receive calls, while outside the Member State in which the customer’s home network is located, by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
(c) “international roaming” means the use of a mobile device by a roaming customer to make or receive voice calls, while outside the Member State in which the customer’s home network is located, by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
(c) “international roaming” means the use of a mobile device by a roaming customer to make or receive voice calls, while outside the Member State in which the customer’s home network is located, by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
See justification to Article 2, paragraph 2, point (a).
See justification to Article 2, paragraph 2, point (a).
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (D)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (D)
(d) “regulated roaming call” means a mobile voice telephony call made by a roaming customer, originating on a visited network and terminating on a public telephone network within the Community;
(d) “regulated roaming call” means a mobile voice telephony call made by a roaming customer, originating on a visited network and terminating on a public telephone network within the Community;
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (E)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (E)
(e) “roaming customer” means a customer of a provider of terrestrial public mobile telephony services, by means of a terrestrial public mobile network situated in the Community , who uses a mobile telephone or other device to make or to receive calls on a visited network by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
(e) “roaming customer” means a customer of a provider of terrestrial public mobile telephony services, by means of a terrestrial public mobile network situated in the Community , who uses a mobile telephone or other device to make or to receive calls on a visited network by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
(e) “roaming customer” means a customer of a home provider, irrespective of whether the customer has a pre-paid or post-paid contract, who uses a mobile device to make or to receive voice calls on a visited network by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
(e) “roaming customer” means a customer of a home provider, irrespective of whether the customer has a pre-paid or post-paid contract, who uses a mobile device to make or to receive voice calls on a visited network by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (E A) (new)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (E A) (new)
(ea) "new roaming customers" are roaming customers who were not existing roaming customers of the relevant home provider at the time the obligations in Article 4 took effect.
(ea) "new roaming customers" are roaming customers who were not existing roaming customers of the relevant home provider at the time the obligations in Article 4 took effect.
The definition of “new” and “existing” roaming customers is relevant to the debate of whether the proposed Consumer Protection Tariff is opt-in or opt-out or a hybrid of the two.
The definition of “new” and “existing” roaming customers is relevant to the debate of whether the proposed Consumer Protection Tariff is opt-in or opt-out or a hybrid of the two.
The Consumer Protection Tariff should be the default tariff for new customers who do not expressly opt for another tariff while, by contrast, it should be available for existing customers to opt in.
The Consumer Protection Tariff should be the default tariff for new customers who do not expressly opt for another tariff while, by contrast, it should be available for existing customers to opt in.
To promote clarity and legal certainty, unambiguous definitions of “new” and “existing” customers appear desirable.
To promote clarity and legal certainty, unambiguous definitions of “new” and “existing” customers appear desirable.
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (E B) (new)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (E B) (new)
(eb) "existing roaming customers" are roaming customers who were already roaming customers of the relevant home provider at the time the obligations in Article 4 took effect.
(eb) "existing roaming customers" are roaming customers who were already roaming customers of the relevant home provider at the time the obligations in Article 4 took effect.
See justification to Article 2, paragraph 2, point (ea) (new).
See justification to Article 2, paragraph 2, point (ea) (new).
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (F)
ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, POINT (F)
(f) “visited network” means a terrestrial public mobile telephony network situated in a Member State other than that of the home network and permitting a roaming customer to make or receive calls by reason of arrangements with the operator of the home network.
(f) “visited network” means a terrestrial public mobile telephony network situated in a Member State other than that of the home network and permitting a roaming customer to make or receive calls by reason of arrangements with the operator of the home network.
(f) “visited network” means a terrestrial public mobile telephony network situated in a Member State other than that of the home network and permitting a roaming customer to make or receive voice calls by reason of arrangements with the operator of the home network.
(f) “visited network” means a terrestrial public mobile telephony network situated in a Member State other than that of the home network and permitting a roaming customer to make or receive voice calls by reason of arrangements with the operator of the home network.
Wholesale charges for the making of roaming calls
Wholesale charges for the making of roaming calls