National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology of the Republic of Moldova

The National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI – www.anrceti.md) is announcing a public session of the Administrative Board to review and adopt the draft (doc. in state language) Decision approving the Program for Development of ANRCETI Regulatory Documents for 2012. The session is scheduled for January 12, at 14.00, at ANRCETI office (134, Stefan cel Mare bd., 5th floor, Conference Room).

The Program was developed on basis of section 17 and 18 of the Regulations on procedures for ensuring the transparency in the decision-making process, approved by Government Decree (doc. in state language) no. 96 of 16.02.2010, and is intended to facilitate the access of interested parties to the information about ANRCETI’s initiatives in terms of development of new regulatory documents in 2012.

According to the document, in the first semester of 2012, the Agency intends to approve the regulatory measures to be applied to market 10 (physical access to facilities associated to electronic communications networks), impose special ex-ante obligations on JSC „Moldtelecom” as a provider with significant market power on market 1 (market for end-user’s access to the public telephone network at fixed locations). Also for this timeframe, the Agency plans to start the second round of market analysis for four relevant markets (Markets 3, 4, 5 and 7).

In terms of regulating the process of number portability, in the first quarter the Agency is planning to approve the Terms of Reference for the tender to be held in order to select the administrator of the centralized data base for number portability implementation, the Procedure for organizing and conducting the tender to select the centralized data base administrator for number portability implementation in the Republic of Moldova and the Technical/Commercial Conditions for number portability implementation.

In terms of end-users’ rights protection, the Agency intends to define quality indicators for the provision of audio-visual program services and make modifications in its previous Decision on quality indicators for the provision of Internet access services.

The Program specifies that when the Government adopts the policy documents in the field of electronic communications, the Agency will proceed to the development of a number of special regulations for the purpose of implementing access technologies in 3600-3800 MHz and 2500-2690 MHz frequency bands, terrestrial digital television, single national system for emergency calls and universal service.

The Statement of Reasons (doc. in state language) for the draft Program mentions that the implementation of the measures proposed by ANRCETI will lead to the increase of competition for the benefit of end users and will guarantee an environment, in which providers will be able to adapt their business models to the new reality.

In the timeframe January 4 – 16, 2012, the draft document was proposed for public consultations, on ANRCETI web page. Companies JSC „Moldcell” and LLC „Arax-Impex” provided proposals to the draft document, which were included in the synthesis (doc. in state language) of recommendations (available on ANRCETI Web site).

January 19, 2012