7 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2016/0185(COD)
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The abolition of retail roaming surcharges introduced by Regulation (EU) No 2015/2120, also named ‘roam-like-at- home’ (RLAH), is necessary to establish and ease theinsufficient to ensure the proper functioning of a digital sroamingle market across the Union. However, that Regulation alone is not sufficient to ensure the correct functioning of the roaming market, particularly in respect of seasonality and costs.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The Commission has conducted aA suitably comprehensive and thorough review of wholesale roaming markets needs to be undertaken to assess which measures are necessary to enable retail roaming surcharges to be abolished by 15 June 2017in the different Member States, ensuring in particular that monthly bills for domestic users of telecommunications services are not increased.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) With regard to rules on wholesale charges, regulatory obligations at Union level should be maintained since any measure that enables RLAH across the Union without addressing the level of the wholesale costs associated with providing these services cwould risk disrupting the internal market for roaming services and would not encourage more competitioncause serious imbalances in the provision of roaming services.
Amendment 33 #
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 was 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 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 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 seasondue regard is not yet paid to the potential impact of the seasonal nature of roaming traffic on the overall costs of providing wholesale roaming services at national level.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 531/2012
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(2a) By way of derogation, cases where the actual costs incurred by the operator are, for reasons such as seasonal overload, demonstrably higher than the amounts set out in the previous paragraph shall be excluded from its provisions. (Amendment also applies to Article 9 and Article 12.)