BEREC

Overview

About BEREC

Chair

Strategy

Work Programme

Working Groups

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.

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BEREC's Chair

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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:

1. Promoting connectivity and access to, and take-up of, very high capacity networks;
2. Promoting competition and efficient investment;
3. Contributing to the development of the internal market;
4. 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.

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Work Programme 2021

In the current BEREC Work Programme the major topics are the promotion of connectivity, digital markets and end customers. In detail, BEREC will continue to promote the introduction of fiber optics and 5G. In addition, the EECC is still in focus. In this second phase, after the guidelines have been published, the focus is on the observation of developments that result from the implementation of the EECC. This is, for example, the evaluation of future technological developments as well as market developments, in particular in connection with end-user regulations in the area of electronic communication and the digital ecosystem.

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Working Groups

The tasks of the Work Programme are distributed among the different Working Groups. The work for 2021 is assigned to the respective Working Groups according to the list below.

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