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Mr. Dražen Lučić, President of the Council of HAKOM participated in the round table called “On the way to the City of the Future - Smart City between Vision and Reality within the thematic programme “Innovations”. 

By promoting the ICT occupations the aim is to encourage children to develop their IT skills especially the girls of primary school age with the ultimate goal to choose their occupation and employment in the ICT sector. 

The Working group is responsible for the revision of the regulatory framework in the field of electronic communications. 

The workshop took place within the scope of the SENT project with the aim to exchange the ideas of connecting the intermodal centres in Southeast Europe. 

A public consultation has started regarding Draft Ordinance on radio equipment according to which the Croatian legislation is harmonised with the provisions of Directive 2014/53 / EC on radio equipment which shall replace the current Ordinance on Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (OG 25/12). A public consultation is open until 29 April. 

The application was developed as a result of cooperation between HAKOM and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) of the University of Zagreb within the framework of the research project “Looking into the future 2020”. The application is primarily aimed at informing and educating end users of electronic communications services about their user rights and obstacles faced by disabled persons when using those services and about the manner of overcoming those obstacles by means of appropriate design.   

The most important topics of the third training, out of a total of four planned trainings, included next generation networks, the Internet and network neutrality.  

The switch-over to DVB-T2 standard is expected after the expiry of the existing licences for digital terrestrial television multiplexes, and at the earliest in 2019. In addition to improving the quality of TV services, this will contribute to the freeing of the RF spectrum of the second digital dividend for services in mobile communications networks. In the period between 2019 and 2021 citizens should adjust their receiving equipment to the new standard. Therefore, clear marking of receiving equipment is envisaged to start in early 2017. 

Participants at a workshop organized by the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) are discussing the allocation and use of the radio frequency spectrum and the addressing and numbering space with the view to coordinating the existing and future M2M applications.  

The topics of the meeting included questionnaires containing call and SMS termination rates for all EU Member States.   

At the Prague Conference, Mr. Dražen Lučić, President of the Council of HAKOM, gave a presentation on “˝EU Roaming Regulation and National Interest˝” and participated in the round table composed of heads of regulatory authorities of Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. 

This year's forum has also proven to be an excellent opportunity for the exchange of experiences and for promoting further cooperation.  

This working group, inter alia, helps the EC with the drafting of implementing decisions concerning radio spectrum management in the EU Member States.  

HAKOM published a public invitation for the allocation of the 116 000 number for the Hotline for missing children. 

The working group deals with issues of cross border parcel traffic and with regulatory experiences on the postal services markets of EU Member States, with a special emphasis on changes in the regulatory framework for parcel traffic and services related to e-trade.  

The objective of the meeting was to define the manner of implementation of the new regulatory framework for roaming services which will enter into force on 30 April 2016.  

The workshop will include the presentation of a study assessing the impact of implementation of the Recommendation on regulation of termination rates.   

Since end users of operator K3 can no longer receive their service as a result of the ban on the use of radio frequencies, and since the operator is responsible for failing to provide the service, all users of operator K3, regardless of whether they have a contractual obligation or not, will be allowed to terminate their contracts with the operator K3 without paying the penalty fee and select another operator. 

DESI 2016 for the Republic of Croatia attained a score of 0,42 and thus places Croatia on the 24th place among the 28 EU Member States just like in 2015, when DESI for Croatia amounted 0,38.