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National Authority for Communications restructured into ANCOM

The National Authority for Communications (ANC) will get restructured, change its name into ANCOM, and some of its duties will be taken over by the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, Hotnews reports. A decision was expected last night, after the weekly government session. The new authority will be supervised by Parliament, yet its leadership named by presidential decree, at Government's proposal, under the substantiation note of the preliminary alternative of the emergency ordinance whereby the authority gets restructured.

The Communications Ministry will take over IT duties, with two general departments to be set up for this purpose. The ordinance was to be passed at yesterday's government session, and is supposed to be published in the Official Journal today.

ANCOM - juristic personality under Parliament's control

ANCOM is established as a public institution with juristic personality under Parliament's control and fully funded from its own revenues, via restructuring of the national Authority for Communications (ANC), which is abolished. The organising and operations of the new regulating authority set up under parliamentary control is a legislative solution fully in line with Community demands in the field of electronic communications, the substantiation note stipulates.

During talks with European officials, it was agreed that the new formula, which offers the best guarantees of independence an stability, coordination by Romania's Parliament, with leadership being picked by presidential decree, at government's proposal, under the operating model of the Competition Council, an institution held as having similar duties , is seen by Brussels as an example of good practice.

IT competences go to Ministry of Communications and Information Society

The authorities found it opportune to take the competence regarding the information technology off the ANCOM and give it to the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, with a view to the need to create a unitary institutional framework of regulation in the field of information technology, to ensure the necessary conditions for moving to an information society, as well as to accommodate the need to ender the work of ANCOM more effective and channel its efforts towards fulfilling its obligations established by the single regulatory framework in the sector of electronic communications at a European level.

Following an evaluation of activity that is to be made in order to discharge the tasks and fulfill the aforementioned objectives, the need to have two directorates general became apparent: the Directorate General for Development Strategies and Increase of Competitiveness in the Field of the Information Society and the Directorate General for Electronic Services, by adding 60 new public offices to the organizational chart of MCSI.

ANCOM's main functions will be the implementation of policies in the area of communications, regulation and development of technical norms as well as the function of arbitrage and decision-making on litigation between providers of networks and services in the field of electronic communications, postal services and services pertaining to the information society, for the purpose of ensuring competition and protecting the interests of the users on the markets of such services. Another field of competence is the management and administration of the limited existing resources in the area of electronic communications, including but not limited to the radio frequency spectrum, numerotation resources and other associated technical resources.

ANCOM controls the fulfillment of the essential requirements of electromagnetic compatibility, of obligations for an efficient use of the spectrum of radio frequencies of non-government use, controls the fulfillment of obligations regarding the use of numerotation resources and associated technical resources, performs the function of controlling the radio equipment market and the market of terminal telecommunications equipment. At the same time, the institution monitors radio frequency bandwidths of non-government use. All movable and immovable assets of ANC, institution that has been dissolved by the draft emergency ordinance, as ell as the staff, will be taken over by the new institutions.

 

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