CZECH REGULATION OF THE WHOLESALE MARKET

The Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU) will not issue the measure of general nature - market analysis no. A/3/xx.2022-x to impose temporary regulatory measures at the wholesale mobile market. The CTU Council members have taken this decision by voting 3:2 at their meeting on 12 April.

On 1 March, CTU launched a public consultation on a new draft analysis with specific proposals on temporary measures. The Czech regulator re-analysed relevant market No.3 and concluded that it is not competitive. In the draft document, CTU proposed to designate T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s., O2 Czech Republic a.s., and Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. as undertakings with significant market power on this market. CTU planned to apply measures according to Section 131 of the Electronic Communications Act which contains in Paragraph 5 a possibility for CTU to adopt temporary measures without consent of the European Commission in case of an urgent need to protect competition and interests of the users.

After studying the results from the received input to the public consultation, CTU decided not to impose temporary regulatory measures on the wholesale mobile market.

The press release can be found here.

DIGITAL SERVICES ACT

According to a new compromise text, seen by EURACTIV, the EU institutions are approaching towards an agreement on the Digital Services Act.

More information can be found in EURACTIV's article here.

GLOBAL GATEWAY

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the 2022 edition of the European Development Days (EDD) under the theme ‘Global Gateway: building sustainable partnerships for a connected world'. The event will bring together high-level participants from around the world to take stock of progress on the implementation of the Global Gateway strategy.

The press release can be found here.

Date of the event: 21 and 22 June 2022. Registrations are open until 6 June.