HAKOM’s “Market Day” gathers electronic communications and postal services stakeholders
PRESS RELEASE
The electronic communications and postal services regulator, the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM), has gathered the representatives of operators, postal services providers, public authorities, industry and the academic community at a conference dedicated to the situation and development of the market it regulates.
“Through a proactive international cooperation, we will ensure, together with other institutions of the Republic of Croatia, a stable regulatory framework fully aligned with the EU legislation, and we will set a positive example not only in the region but in the EU, as well”, Lučić concluded.
In a completely liberalised postal services market, the increase in the share of new services is expected, including package services, as well as market consolidation in accordance with the procedures which took place in other EU countries.
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For additional information please contact:
Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM)
Roberta Frangeša Mihanovića 9
10110 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel. + 385 (0)1 700 70 07
Fax + 385 (0)1 700 70 70
Media inquiries can be submitted online using HAKOM’s official website: https://www.hakom.hr, or via the official HAKOM’S Facebook group on: www.facebook.com/HAKOM
For questions registration (for website) or a valid Facebook account is required.
The electronic communications and postal services regulator, the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM), has gathered the representatives of operators, postal services providers, public authorities, industry and the academic community at a conference dedicated to the situation and development of the market it regulates.
ZAGREB, 21 January 2014 – The first HAKOM’s “Market Day” was held today in Zagreb. It is a conference on electronic communications and postal services market regulation. HAKOM, the regulator competent for these markets, presented last year’s market indicators, and announced the future directions of development and regulation. Special attention was paid to the development of the market of postal services and electronic communications of the Republic of Croatia as part of the single European Union market.
The conference highlighted that the regulator’s activity will focus on the maintenance and further improvement of a simulative regulatory framework for investment in the modernisation of access networks and new services, with a simultaneous protection of sustainable market competition. HAKOM will continue with taking a proactive part at the international level in the initiated procedure of amending the regulatory framework of the European Union and, together with the stakeholders in the Croatian market, in the preparation for the setting up of a single EU market in the electronic communications sector. In his presentation, President of HAKOM Council, Mr. Dražen Lučić, Ph.D., pointed out that this year HAKOM will continue with a socially responsible market regulation and together with other stakeholders work on a further development of the market of electronic communications and postal services. The emphasis of its activity will be on increasing the number of broadband connections, the setting up of the regulatory framework for an easier and faster integration of new technologies and services and raising the level of consumer protection, especially of children and other vulnerable groups. In the postal services market, the focus will be on the improvement of the quality of services, primarily of the universal postal service.
The conference highlighted that the regulator’s activity will focus on the maintenance and further improvement of a simulative regulatory framework for investment in the modernisation of access networks and new services, with a simultaneous protection of sustainable market competition. HAKOM will continue with taking a proactive part at the international level in the initiated procedure of amending the regulatory framework of the European Union and, together with the stakeholders in the Croatian market, in the preparation for the setting up of a single EU market in the electronic communications sector. In his presentation, President of HAKOM Council, Mr. Dražen Lučić, Ph.D., pointed out that this year HAKOM will continue with a socially responsible market regulation and together with other stakeholders work on a further development of the market of electronic communications and postal services. The emphasis of its activity will be on increasing the number of broadband connections, the setting up of the regulatory framework for an easier and faster integration of new technologies and services and raising the level of consumer protection, especially of children and other vulnerable groups. In the postal services market, the focus will be on the improvement of the quality of services, primarily of the universal postal service.
“Through a proactive international cooperation, we will ensure, together with other institutions of the Republic of Croatia, a stable regulatory framework fully aligned with the EU legislation, and we will set a positive example not only in the region but in the EU, as well”, Lučić concluded.
In a completely liberalised postal services market, the increase in the share of new services is expected, including package services, as well as market consolidation in accordance with the procedures which took place in other EU countries.
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For additional information please contact:
Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM)
Roberta Frangeša Mihanovića 9
10110 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel. + 385 (0)1 700 70 07
Fax + 385 (0)1 700 70 70
Media inquiries can be submitted online using HAKOM’s official website: https://www.hakom.hr, or via the official HAKOM’S Facebook group on: www.facebook.com/HAKOM
For questions registration (for website) or a valid Facebook account is required.
HAKOM (www.hakom.hr) - Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency – ensures preconditions for a fair market competition, stable growth and environment for innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market. HAKOM protects users’ interests and the possibility of choice among various communications and postal services at affordable prices, defines sustainable competitive conditions for operators and service providers under fair conditions for return on investment, and provides support to economic growth, public services and the quality of life in the Republic of Croatia by using modern technologies. HAKOM’ strategic goals are: to promote regulation of the electronic communications and postal services market, to support growth of investments and innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market, to provide efficient use of limited resources, to accelerate the growth of broadband products and services, to provide affordable offers of communications and postal services, to provide protection and informing of users, to build an efficient and comprehensive information system, to define and implement efficient processes, and to acquire multi-disciplinary competencies in market regulation.