At its meeting held last week in Brussels, the European Regulators Group discussed the preliminary results of its public consultation on bitstream access. The European Regulators Group (ERG) is composed of the heads of each national regulatory agency of nations in the European Union. The ERG has been considering the adoption of a common policy that would ensure bitstream access to broadband networks, especially the DSL networks of incumbent operators. The public consultation process was initiated in July.
A common ERG position on further steps to such a policy is expected to be presented at the next ERG meeting in Budapest in November.
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- In July 2003, the European Commission implemented a new regulatory framework aimed at harmonizing the policies and enforcing the legal certainty of laws pertaining to electronic communications across the member states of the European Union. The new regulatory framework, which went into effect on 25-July-2003, gives the European Commission powers to oversee the national regulatory regimes of member states through a consultative process with their national regulatory authorities (NRA). This consultative process will take place through the European Regulators Group.