Activities of José BLANCO LÓPEZ related to 2016/0185(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Wholesale roaming markets (debate) ES
Amendments (12)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 establishes a new retail pricing mechanism for Union-wide regulated roaming services in order to abolish retail roaming surcharges as of 15 June 2017 without distorting domestic and visited markets.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The abolition of roaming surcharges as of 15 June 2017, as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 531/2012, is therefore subject to the introduction of a reasonable use policy that will ensure that roaming clients do not make abusive or anomalous use of regulated retail roaming services and the applicability of any legislative act proposed by the Commission that provides for appropriate measures following its review of the wholesale roaming markets, so as to make the abolition of retail roaming surcharges possible.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In light of the findings of the review, the Commission adopted its report on the review of the wholesale roaming market19. In this regard, in order to ensure that retail roaming services can be provided at domestic retail prices, wholesale roaming inputs must be available at a level that allows home operators to provide RLAH. Although having fully competitive national wholesale roaming markets in which prices are in line with visited networks’ underlying costs of provision would clearly make RLAH more sustainable, the review shows that this is not the case. The review also demonstrated that the future retail RLAH obligation alone is highly unlikely to lead to well-functioning wholesale roaming markets that would enable the provision of RLAH in the Union by 15 June 2017 while allowing operators of visited networks to recover the cost of providing regulated wholesale roaming services. __________________ 19 Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the review of the wholesale roaming market [final reference]
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) Bearing in mind the need to promote the necessary network infrastructure investment to meet the growth in data use, to which the introduction of RLAH will doubtless contribute, particular attention should be paid to the need to ensure that operators of visited networks are able to recover all the costs of providing regulated wholesale roaming services, thereby averting unwanted effects on those markets in the form of a reduction in network infrastructure investment, deterioration in service provision and quality or an increase in domestic retail prices.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
Amendment 35 #
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 thePeaks in seasonality of roaming traffic. In particular for data services, increasing domestic demand means 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 communications affect overall networks are dimensioned in order to cope with this general upward trend driven by domestic demand, any peak 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 seasonal 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 seasoning costs, a fact that should be taken into account when setting maximum wholesale charges, with a view to ensuring that networks used by visitors throughout the EU recoup their costs.
Amendment 46 #
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. This should include both an assessment of any emergence of tariff plans that include only domestic services and exclude roaming services altogether, thus undermining the very objective of RLAH and an assessment of any reduction in the availability of flat-rate tariff plans, which could also represent a loss for consumers and undermine the objectives of the Digital Single Market. Also, as in its Report on the Review of the Wholesale Roaming Market of 15 June 2016, the Commission's biennial reports should assess the ability of visited network operators to recover all costs of providing regulated wholesale roaming services, and propose correction mechanisms to remedy the situation in the event that this happens. In addition, the Commission should assess the ability of domestic network operators to recover their costs of providing regulated roaming services from their revenues from the provision of such services, and the extent to which retail roaming surcharges have been authorised by national regulatory authorities under the sustainability mechanism. 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.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
4. Rules on regulated wholesale roaming charges laid down in Articles 7, 9 and 12 shall apply to the provision of access to all components of wholesale roaming access referred to in paragraph 3, unless both parties to the wholesale roaming agreement explicitly agree that any average wholesale roaming charge resulting from the application of the agreement should not be subject to the maximum regulated wholesale roaming charge for a defined period of timeduring the period of validity of the agreement.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 1 – point 4 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
Amendment 107 #
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 2017on 15 December 2018 and every two years after that date. If the report shows that this Regulation has not adequately promoted competition in the internal market for roaming services, the Commission shall submit appropriate legislative proposals to the European Parliament and the Council.
Amendment 114 #
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) developments in retail charges for the provision to customers of voice, SMS and data communications services in countries with large inbound roaming traffic.”
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 6 – point a b (new)
Article 1 – point 6 – point a b (new)
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – point c b (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – point c b (new)
(ab) In paragraph 3, the following point is added: “(cb) recorded and projected developments in network infrastructure investment by operators in countries with large inbound roaming traffic.”