6 Amendments of Hans-Olaf HENKEL related to 2016/0185(COD)
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In considering cost estimates, the potential impact of the seasonal nature of roaming traffic on the overall costs of providing wholesale roaming services at national level wasshould be taken into consideration. Such estimates noted the counterbalancing effects that would mitigate any potential increase in costs caused by the seasonality of roaming traffic. In particular for data services, increasing domestic demand meansIt needs to be taken into account that any seasonal traffic peak in a given year is likely to be exceeded by total domestic demand in the following year(s). Accordingly, since terrestrial mobile communicationsroaming peaks have an impact on overall networks are dimensioned in order to cope with this general upward trend driven by domestic demand, any peaking costs which need to be taken in total network demand caused by seasonal roaming flows is unlikely to drive mobile network dimensioning costs. For voice calls, where demand is more stable, in some countries season consideration when setting maximum wholesale roaming peaks may have an impact on overall network dimensioning costs. However, such localised seasonal peaks in traffic are likely to also be driven by domestic users moving into tourist areas and be somewhat mitigated by compensating effect of roamers on capacity usage in metropolitan areas during the summer holiday seasoncharges to ensure cost recovery for visited networks.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In setting the maximum wholesale charge for regulated data roaming services, the full costs for visited network operators, including all the access components needed to enable the provision of roaming services have been taken into account, including the transit costs of delivering data traffic to an exchange point identified by the home network operator.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) It is necessary to monitor and regularly review the functioning of wholesale roaming markets and their interrelationship with the retail roaming market, taking into account competitive and technological developments and traffic flows. In order to properly assess how roaming markets will adapt to RLAH rules, sufficient data should be gathered on functioning of these markets after the implementation of these rules. If the data from the first year after 15 June 2017 show that the RLAH rules have led to distortion of national markets or other negative consequences for the customers or domestic or roaming providers, a new legislative proposal amending the Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 should be submitted by the Commission as soon as possible.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. With effect from 15 June 2017, the average wholesale charge that the visited network operator may levy on the roaming provider for the provision of regulated data roaming services by means of that visited network shall not exceed a safeguard limit of EUR 0.00815 per megabyte of data transmitted and shall, without prejudice to Article 19, remain at EUR 0.00815 per megabyte of data transmitted until 30 June 2022.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 6 – point a
Article 1 – point 6 – point a
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 19 – paragraph 3 –sentence 1
Article 19 – paragraph 3 –sentence 1
In addition, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council every two years after 15 June 2017accompanied, where appropriate, by a legislative proposal, by 31 December 2018 and every 18 months thereafter.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 6 – point a a (new)
Article 1 – point 6 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
(aa) in paragraph 3, the following point is added: "(ca) the current state of implementation of the abolition of retail roaming surcharges and whether there is the need for further adjustments in the level of maximum wholesale roaming charges as provided for in Articles 7, 9 and 12, taking into account the ability of visited network operators to recover all costs of providing regulated wholesale roaming services, including joint and common costs."