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Within the scope of the conference entitled "Research, Theorizing, and Teaching Administrative Science and Public Administration: Croatia, South East Europe and Beyond“ Dubrovnik hosted the forum of practitioners  "Filling the Gap between Administrative Theory and Practice".
 

The last day of GSR was dedicated to the regulatory challenges and the adoption of conclusions regarding the guidelines based on the experience of regulatory bodies. HAKOM, represented by Mr. Dražen Lučić, the President of the Council, actively participated in the preparatory discussion. 

The topic of the panel discussion was the reliability of networks and devices for digital services ("Reliability of Networks and Devices for Digital Services"). 

The discussion on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Electronic Communications Code was continued as well as the discussion referring to articles on the coordination of the radio spectrum. 

Following the invitation of the organizer the Split Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split hosted  the second international SpliTech 2017 conference, held in the period from 12 to 14 July.

The Radio Frequency Spectrum Committee, among other things, helps the European Commission in the development of implementing decisions related to frequency spectrum management in the EU Member States.

Once a year, the national regulatory authorities are obliged to publish monitoring reports and results and submit them to the European Commission and BEREC. Reports must be published on an annual basis. 

A two-day meeting of the SEETO Working Group was held in Podgorica, Montenegro and HAKOM’s representatives took part in the meeting as lecturers.

The Broadband Competence Offices Support Facility (BCO-SF) organized and held the workshop on state aid allocation process in the field of rapid  deployment  of  electronic communications networks  in Brussels. The EU Member States exchanged their views and experiences in the field. 

The negotiations between the neighbouring states will contribute to the international harmonization of frequencies necessary to switch to a new standard for digital TV encryption and transmission in order to provide additional radio frequency spectrum for broadband services in mobile networks, and to harmonize frequencies for FM radio and digital radio in the VHF band.
  

The first  draft report was  presented at the meeting aimed  to show  the tasks laid down under Directive 2014/61 / EU on measures to reduce the cost of deploying high-speed electronic communications networks allocated to national regulatory bodies and the model by means of which these  activities are carried out in different countries. 

The meeting of ENRRB, European Commission advisory body discussing issues and practice in the rail services sector for the purpose of alignment at the European Union level was held in Barcelona.

The public forum was held on Tuesday in Sveti Martin na Muri.  

Several issues were discussed  at the meeting such as the adoption of the work programme of the Working group for the implementation of 5G mobile networks. 

Pursuant to the Regulation the existing rules for roaming wholesale markets have been amended and all the preconditions have been fulfilled according to which the retail surcharges of roaming services (voice, SMS and data roaming services) are equal to the domestic prices with affect from June 15. 

Special categories of users will have possibility to choose between packages with new prices or to select a package from the previous offer, i.e. the existing system of special discounts for socially vulnerable users - the users with special social needs. 

The Working Group deals with the drafting rules for addressing and numbering, as well as consulting and recommendations on regulatory technical issues in order to promote and support innovations and competitiveness in the field of electronic communications. 

In the first quarter of 2017 the number of postal parcels and revenues increased in comparison to the same period last year.