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During the five year mandate the Council held 139 regular and 3 extraordinary sessions. 

The topic of the meeting was the annual report and the adopted  draft that will be presented at the EMERG plenary session . The evaluation of  the implementation of work plan ,recommendations and decisions was evaluated  and the issues of joint  interest were discussed. 

The main objective of the meeting was preparing the 34th BEREC regular plenary session of, to be held on March 7 and 8 2018 in Bratislava, Slovakia. 

The topics discussed at the meeting on development of mobile satellite services, as well as the adoption of new guidelines for the establishment of operators with significant market power n the forthcoming activities related to the WiFi4EU project. 

The report submitted by the Commission to the HAKOM’s Council states that the biggest disputes are related to the electronic communications while a smaller number of cases are related to the postal and rail services. 

The brochure entitled "How to Protect Your Child in the World of Internet, Network Technologies, and Mobile Phones" contains practical and useful tips on possible threats and security on the Internet, privacy and personal data protection, behaviour and use of social networks. 

On Friday, an increase in the number of incoming calls from 10 different international numbers  was recorded , shown as a missed call and a call-back is expected. Those numbers have been blocked for traffic. 

Brussels hosted the ENRRB Meeting – European Network of Rail Regulatory Bodies  

The meeting discussed a series of topics related to the technical aspect of management of the radio frequency spectrum, ie. ways of sharing the radio frequency spectrum between immobile, mobile and satellite services and short-range devices (SRDs). 

The programme in the amount of EUR 120 million for 2017 to 2019 is aimed at all the EU Member States  and  the WiFi infrastructure construction will be 100% co-financed 

In comparison to the 2007 reaching the 72.5 points (out of 100 possible) and taking the 29th place in the rankings, the Republic of Croatia has progressed to  the 17^th position with a total score of 93 points. 

Traditional HAKOM's "Market Day" is an annual organization by HAKOM as a national regulatory authority aimed at further enhancing the regulatory framework for investing into the modernization of electronic communications networks and implementation of new services on all markets regulated by HAKOM. 

The topic of the working group meetings was the Proposal of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Electronic Communications Code. 

The most important topics of the meeting were document preparation for the public tender for drafting  quality-assured tools for Internet broadband access at the EU level and the preparation of documentation for public discussion on the implementation  issues of the TSM Regulation in the EU Member States. 

HAKOM’s representatives discussed the roles and organizational aspects of this independent regulatory body in the electronic communications, postal and rail services markets 

During the first year, 29,000 users were enrolled in the "Do not Call" Registry according to which calls to the merchants aimed to sell  a certain service or product as well as sending marketing or sales messages via the phone is forbidden. 

Referring to the global ICT development based on  internationally comparable data, the Republic of Croatia took  the 36th place (42nd in 2016) and ranked among six countries that had progressed for 5 or more places compared to 2016. 

By signing the agreement on the allocation of radio spectrum, the Republic of Croatia has fulfilled its obligation to the European Commission and it is ready to wait for further activities for the allocation of "Second digital dividend".