Ref. Ares(2019)2223463 - 28/03/2019
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Riga, 25th March 2019
Minutes
Open Internet WG
Guidelines Update
Drafters’ Video-conference
22nd March 2019 – 10:00-15:00 CET
1 Opening of the meeting and adoption of the agenda
The co-chairs opened the meeting and the following agenda has been adopted:
Welcome
ECJ case discussion
Scoping document
o structure and overall guidance
o content / sub-teams
Guidelines update / sub-teams’ discussions if needed
AoB
Next steps and conclusions
Lunch break: approx. 12:00-13:00 CET
The meeting started with a
tour de table in order to check the audio connectivity of all the
participants.
2 Purpose/objectives of the meeting
The main objective of this meeting was to discuss the structure of the scoping document and the
possible topics to be highlighted in this document.
3 Timeline
Co-chairs informed the drafters that two documents are going to be drafted, namely the scoping
document and the updated guidelines (considered as the main “task”). In addition, they presented
the upcoming deadlines to be considered by the drafters.
April 16 and 17: BXL
May 1: deadline Full WG
May 6: Full WG
May 7: Drafters
May 13: submission to CN
May 23: CN discussion
4 ECJ case discussion
Before the meeting, […] circulated an e-mail to inform the drafters about the requests for a
preliminary ruling to the European Court of Justice, which were formulated by a Hungarian Court
in proceedings against two decisions of the Hungarian NRA. These requests are referring to the
BEREC NN Guidelines. Other countries could submit written observations to the ECJ.
[…]
5 Scoping document
Co-chairs introduced the objectives of the scoping document and highlighted the importance to
agree on the target of the document. The current version of the document includes 13 topics and
co-chairs would like to reduce this number in order to achieve the target number of pages which
will be max. 6 to 7 pages and max. 1 page per topic. Furthermore, the drafters agreed on two
categories of questions to be raised in the document: (i) questions for guidance and (ii) topics for
information (these ones could be put in an annex).
Drafters also discussed about what harmonisation level to achieve in the guidelines. […]
The BoR (18) 225 document was circulated among the drafters.
5.1 Sub-team A
[…]
5.2 Sub-team B
[…]
5.3 Sub-team C
[…]
5.4 Sub-team D
[…]
6 Guidelines’ update / sub-team if needed
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7 Scheduled action points and deadlines
Next steps:
[…]
Sub-teams will continue drafting based on received feedback
o 5th April DL for sub-teams for submitting scoping document and guidelines text for
co-chairs and BO
o 9th April scoping document and draft guidelines will be distributed to OI guidelines
drafters
Next meetings:
16th + 17th April 2019 – OI Guidelines Drafters’ meeting in Brussels
8 AOB
n.a.
9 Conclusion
See section 7
Drafted by BEREC Office
Approved by co-chairs on 27/03/2019
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10 Annex 1: Attendance list
33 participants joining via video-conference:
NRAs/EC/BO/Other
Name of the representative
ACM
[…]
ACM
[…]
AGCOM
[…]
AKOS
[…]
AKOS
[…]
ANCOM
[…]
ARCEP
[…]
ARCEP
[…]
ARCEP
[…]
ARCEP
[…]
BEREC OFFICE
[…]
BIPT
[…]
BIPT
[…]
BNETZA
[…]
BNETZA
[…]
BNETZA
[…]
BNETZA
[…]
CNMC
[…]
COMREG
[…]
COMREG
[…]
EETT
[…]
ILR
[…]
NKOM
[…]
NKOM
[…]
OFCOM
[…]
OFCOM
[…]
PTS
[…]
RRT
[…]
RTR
[…]
RTR
[…]
RTR
[…]
TRAFICOM
[…]
TRAFICOM
[…]
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