Overview
About BEREC
Chair
Strategy
Work Programme
Working Groups
DMA High Level Group
Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications
With BEREC, the EU brings all European regulatory authorities and neighboring observers to one independent table working on electronic communications. Here we learn from each other using "best practices", implement them harmonized across Europe and advise the legislator with expertise.
This expertise is nourished by the large pool of experts from the member states. They come together in working groups and deal with important issues in order to move Europe forward. These topics build on the BEREC strategy in the medium term and on the BEREC work programme in the short term.
BEREC's Chair
Robert Mourik from the Irish regulator ComReg chairs BEREC in 2025. Chair and Vice-Chairs are elected annually for the following year. Together they form the Mini Board.
One of the three additional Vice-Chairs is provided by the countries with observer status at BEREC. The Vice-Chairs support the Troika (Chair, Incoming and Outgoing Chair) in their strategic work. Usually each Vice-Chair is responsible for a specific topic.
The Mini Board meets twice a year and also regularly before the plenary sessions to discuss current topics on the telecommunications markets and to ensure the implementation of the Work Programme.
Mini Board 2025
| Chair | Robert Mourik | Irland (ComReg) |
| Incoming Chair | Marko Mišmaš | Slowenien (AKOS) |
| Outgoing Chair | Tonko Obuljen | Kroatien (HAKOM) |
| Vice Chair | Alejandra de Iturriaga Gandini | Spanien (CNMC) |
| Vice Chair | Daniela Brönstrup | Deutschland (BNetzA) |
| Representative of Participants Without Voting Rights | Liliia Malon | Ukraine (NCEC) |
A Strategy for Europe
The current BEREC strategy is valid for the years 2021 to 2025. It therefore runs parallel to the legislative periods of the European Commission in order to make BEREC's work more effective. The strategy itself follows the five priorities from the EECC:
- Promoting connectivity and access to, and take-up of, very high capacity networks;
- Promoting competition and efficient investment;
- Contributing to the development of the internal market;
- Promoting the interests of the citizens of the Union.
BEREC set itself three high-level goals derived from this:
- Promoting full connectivity;
- Supporting sustainable and open digital markets;
- Empowering end-users.
Work Programme 2024
The BEREC Strategy 2021 to 2025 with its three strategic priorities "Enhancing Connectivity", "Digital Markets" and "End Users" sets the direction in the current BEREC Work Programme 2025.
It contains a total of 49 tasks. 16 topics are assigned to the strategic priority of promoting full connectivity. These include 5G networks, network resilience, Submarine cable, the Digital Decade Policy Programme, remedies and infrastructure.
13 topics can be found under the strategic priority of promoting sustainable and open digital markets. These includes the integration of AI in the telecommunications sector, the implementation of the Data Act, empowerment of national regulatory authorities and challenges in the area of sustainability.
Within the strategic priority on end-user empowerment, there are seven topics, including an opinion from BEREC on the universal service review.
Other common topics or topics foreseen in the regulatory framework can also be found in the 2025 work programme as well as a concluding chapter with proposals for 2026 or beyond.
Working Groups
The tasks of the Work Programme are distributed among the different Working Groups. The work for 2025 is assigned to the respective Working Groups according to the list below.
| Working Group | Deliverable 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cybersecurity (CS) | BEREC External workshop on the technological advances as security opportunities and challenges for network resilience |
| ECASEC-BEREC: Guidelines on preventing smishing | |
| Ad-hoc work to support in reinforcing EU’s cybersecurity capabilities | |
| Digital Markets (DM) | Submarine cables connectivity in Europe |
| BEREC contribution to the implementation of the Data Act | |
| BEREC contribution on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the competition dynamics, internet openness and end-users’ rights | |
| BEREC contribution to the implementation of the Digital Markets Act | |
| End User (EU) | Universal services review |
| Report on switching and termination of contracts | |
| External workshop on practical issues preventing number misuse and possible fraudulent activities as a result of impact of new technologies | |
| BEREC-BEUC Joint workshop on end-user rights | |
| External Study | BEREC external study on data centres |
| Fixed Network Evolution (FNE) | Update of criterion 3 of the BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks |
| Progress Report on managing copper network switch-off | |
| BEREC Guidelines on the coordination of civil works according to Art. 5(6) of the Gigabit Infrastructure Act | |
| BEREC Guidelines on access to in-building physical infrastructure according to Article 11(6) of the Gigabit Infrastructure Act | |
| BEREC Input to European Commission’s Guidance on Article 3 of the Gigabit Infrastructure Act | |
| Market and Economic Analysis (MEA) | Workshops on the competitive effects of fibre networks overbuilt, including in the context of copper switch-off |
| BEREC Opinion on the review of European Commission's Recommendation on relevant markets susceptible to ex-ante regulation | |
| Report on the regulation of physical infrastructure access | |
| Fact finding report on the competitive landscape in different jurisdictions | |
| Open Internet (OI) | Implementation of the Open Internet Regulation and the BEREC Open Internet Guidelines |
| Collaboration on internet access service measurement tools | |
| Workshop on the consideration of 5G differentiated services and network slicing | |
| Planning and Future Trends (PFT) | BEREC Report on Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0 |
| BEREC Strategies 2026-2030: Mid-term strategy, International and Institutional | |
| BEREC Work Programme 2026 | |
| Remedies and Market Monitoring (RAMM) | Update to BEREC Guidelines on Geographical surveys of network deployments |
| Follow up to BEREC Opinion on the EC's methodology for the mapping of QoS coverage on Connectivity Indicators for the DDPP | |
| Implementation of Equivalence of Inputs (EoI) by NRAs | |
| BEREC Workshop on the practices of data collections from NI-ICS providers | |
| Article 32/33 Phase II process * | |
| WACC parameters’ calculation according to the EC Notice | |
| Report on regulatory accounting in practice | |
| Regulatory Framework (RF) | Ad hoc input to the EU/NRAs * |
| International Roaming (ROAM) | BEREC Opinion about the functioning of the Roaming Regulation |
| 30th International roaming benchmark data and monitoring Report | |
| 6th Intra-EU communications Benchmark Report | |
| 5th Ukraine monitoring report | |
| Update of BEREC Intra-EU communications Guidelines | |
| Sustainability (SUS) | Advancing towards environmental data collection on ECN/ECS and contributing to future code of conduct on ECN/ECS sustainability |
| External workshop on environmental footprint of satellite constellations | |
| Report on Infrastructure sharing as a lever for ECN/ECS environmental sustainability | |
| External workshop on digital services’ ecodesign for greener networks and ICTs | |
| Wireless Network Evolution (WNE) | Follow up internal workshop direct-to-mobile device satellite connectivity |
| BEREC Report on the evolution of private and public 5G networks in the Europe | |
| Stock taking of NRAs application of Article 52(2) for wholesale access obilgation | |
| Internal workshop on aspects of 2G and 3G phaseout | |
| Peer review process and engaging with RSPG |
DMA High Level Group
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) stipulates a High Level Group to advise and assist the European Commission in the enforcement of the DMA. Six organisations make up this group and each sends up to six people. BEREC is among them, sending its Mini Board plus one other representative. In an election among BEREC members, our Executive Director Klaus M. Steinmaurer won this position. He is now the sixth BEREC representative in the DMA High Level Group.
The six bodies and networks sending represantitves to the DMA High Level Group are:
- BEREC - Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications;
- EDPS - European Data Protection Supervisor;
- EDPB - European Data Protection Board;
- ECN - European Competition Network;
- CPC - Consumer Protection Cooperation Network;
- ERGA - European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services.