23 May 2012
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) held on 23 May 2012 a training session dedicated to the naval centres preparing the candidates who wish to obtain a radio operator’s certificate in the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services and on inland waterways. The aim of the session was to ensure that the examiners nominated by these centres are maintaining a proper level of knowledge of the national and international radiocommunication regulations.
This was the second meeting organised by ANCOM after the previous one dedicated to the centres preparing the candidates who intend to obtain the radio operator’s certificate in the aeronautical mobile and aeronautical mobile-satellite services and attended by about 40 members of the examination commissions from the 15 training centres in the aeronautical and maritime fields which concluded collaboration protocols with ANCOM.
In Romania there are 4,443 radio operators in the aeronautical mobile and aeronautical mobile-satellite services, 7,905 operators in the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services and 2,152 radio operators in the radiotelephone service on inland waterways. In 2011 ANCOM issued 87 licences for the use of frequencies and 139 frequency assignment authorisations for the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services, for the radiotelephone service on inland waterways and for experimental services in the case of maritime ships under shipyard tests during the time they are flying the Romanian flag, as well as 22 licences for the use of frequencies and 60 frequency assignment authorisations for the aeronautical mobile and aeronautical mobile-satellite services.
The seafarers, air crew members and the traffic control personnel in the aforementioned radiocommunication services, as well as the private owners of aircraft and/or pleasure boats equipped with radio stations are due to hold the radio operator’s certificate in the aeronautical, maritime and radiotelephone on inland waterways services. The granting of these radio operator’s certificates categories in Romania is regulated by the Regulation of the personnel operating the radiocommunication stations in Romania, approved by Decision no. 699/2005, and by the Radio Regulations attached to the Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union, ratified by Law no. 76 of 8 November 1993.