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05BUCHAREST1459
2005-06-29 13:05:00
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Embassy Bucharest
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ROMANIA: LICENSING CONDITIONS IN TELECOM SECTOR

Tags:  ECPS ETRD ECON EU RO 
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UNCLAS BUCHAREST 001459 

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EUR/NCE - WSILKWORTH
DEPT FOR EB/CIP - TFINTON
USDOC FOR 4232/ITA/MAC/AUR/OEERIS/CEED/JBURGESS/JKIMBAL L
USTR FOR JONATHAN MCHALE/PAUL NEUREITER

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECPS ETRD ECON EU RO
SUBJECT: ROMANIA: LICENSING CONDITIONS IN TELECOM SECTOR

REF: STATE 114687

UNCLAS BUCHAREST 001459

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EUR/NCE - WSILKWORTH
DEPT FOR EB/CIP - TFINTON
USDOC FOR 4232/ITA/MAC/AUR/OEERIS/CEED/JBURGESS/JKIMBAL L
USTR FOR JONATHAN MCHALE/PAUL NEUREITER

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECPS ETRD ECON EU RO
SUBJECT: ROMANIA: LICENSING CONDITIONS IN TELECOM SECTOR

REF: STATE 114687


1. Embassy's Economic Section contacted Alexandrina Hirtan,
Vice President of the Romanian National Regulatory Agency
for Communications (ANRC),in connection with licensing fees
for fixed telephony. Embassy has received the following
responses to Reftel questionnaire:


2. Regarding fees charged for licensing fixed line services
in excess of what is necessary to cover administrative
costs: Romanian Government (GOR) Emergency Ordinance
no.79/2002 on the general regulatory framework for
communications, approved, with amendments and completions,
by Law no.591/2002, established the general authorization
regime, which replaced the former procedure requiring every
provider of electronic communications to obtain an
individual licence. The current general authorization
procedure, under which the interested companies are granted
the right to enter the Romanian market as providers of
electronic communications services or networks, is free of
charge. Therefore, ANRC does not charge a tariff for the
authorization of the providers of electronic communications
services or networks, including fixed telephony services.


3. Providers of electronic communications services, however,
must pay an annual monitoring tariff to ANRC. According to
the provisions of art.47 par.(1) of the GOR's Emergency
Ordinance (E.O.) Number 79/2002, "the providers of
electronic communications networks and services authorized
pursuant to this Emergency Ordinance must pay to ANRC an
annual monitoring tariff, calculated as a percentage from
the turnover of each provider." By way of exception, art.47
par.(8) sets out that "the persons authorised pursuant to
Art.4 to provide exclusively for their own needs electronic
communications networks and services using radio-electric
frequencies shall be exempted from paying the annual
monitoring tariff."


4. The annual monitoring tariff is calculated as a
percentage of each provider's turnover. This percent is
determined each year, without exceeding 0.5%, as the ratio
between (a) the expenses estimated for the current year,
provided for in the ANRC's budget, approved according to
art.42 of Government Emergency Ordinance no.79/2002, amount
from which the revenues provisioned from other sources, as
provided for in the approved budget, shall be deducted; and
(b) the cumulative turnover for the previous year of all
providers of electronic communications networks and services
who owe the annual monitoring tariff.


5. The monitoring tariff owed by each provider is
calculated using (a) the percentage determined according to
the provisions mentioned above, and (b) the revenue of the
provider concerned for the previous year.


6. Regarding licenses for the use of numbering resources,
ANRC can grant the right to use certain numbers from the
National Numbering Plan, upon request, to any provider of
publicly available electronic communications services
authorized under art.4 of GOR's E.O. no.79/2002. ANRC may
ask the holders of licenses to pay a certain tariff for the
use of numbering resources. At this moment, the use of
numbering resources is free of charge.


7. ANRC neither imposes any capitalization or bonding
requirements nor any build-out investment requirements.
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