ANRC announces the entry into force of the decision according to which the providers of electronic communications networks and services and the providers of postal services may choose to pay their financial obligations to ANRC based exclusively on the income resulted from activities in the field of electronic communications or of postal services.
The providers of public electronic communications networks, the providers of publicly available electronic communications services and the providers of postal services have the obligation to pay an annual monitoring tariff to ANRC for the activity of surveillance and control in the respective markets. Additional, ANRC charges on the providers of public electronic communications networks and on the providers of publicly available telephone services a contribution for compensating the net cost of providing services within the scope of Universal Service. The former normative acts regulating the monitoring tariff and the contribution to the Universal Service Fund provided the calculation of the two annual financial obligations as a percentage of the whole turnover for the previous year.
As a feedback to the industry signals, ANRC initiated, in collaboration with Ministry of Communications and IT, the procedure required for amending the calculation formula of the respective contributions, so that they could be determined also based exclusively on the income resulted from activities in the field of electronic communications or of postal services. Thus, in July 2005, Law no.239/2005 on amending and completing several normative acts in the filed of communications entered into force.
According to the newly created legislative framework, the ANRC President approved the Decision no.113/2006 on the procedure of exercising the right to make a choice in view of the calculation of the financial obligations payable to the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and conducting separated accounts by the providers of electronic communications networks and services and by the providers of postal services. This ANRC decision regulates the procedure by which the providers of electronic communications networks and services and the providers of postal services may exercise their right to choose between the two calculation formulas of these contributions (based on the whole turnover or based exclusively on the income resulted from activities in the field of electronic communications or of postal services), as well as the rules for conducting separated accounts.
Additional information
§ The calculation mechanism for the monitoring tariff owed by the providers of public electronic communications networks and of publicly available electronic communications services (details)
§ The calculation mechanism for the monitoring tariff owed by the providers of postal services (details)