Sunday, 23 June 2013

Estonia referred to Court of Justice over impartiality of telecoms regulator

I came across this relatively recent EC press release, which comments that the European Commission has refered Estonia to the CJEU, for failing to ensure the independence of the Estonia telecommunications regulator, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (as required by Article 3(2), directive 2002/21/EC):

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications in Estonia carries out some regulatory tasks, in particular over the allocation of radio frequencies and procedures for granting frequency authorisations.
At the same time it exercises control of the state-owned company Levira Ltd, the largest TV and radio broadcast network operator in Estonia, which provides telecoms services such as broadcasting and wireless broadband access

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