The monitoring tariff due for 2007 was established at 0.171%, based on the financial statements submitted to the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology by 2,436 electronic communications providers and postal services providers, out of the 2,510 providers authorised by ANRCTI. Last year, the monitoring tariff that providers owed to ANRC was calculated as 0.125% of the turnover or of the revenues achieved from the provision of electronic communications networks or services and of postal services.
ANRCTI asserted that 500 electronic communications operators and 65 operators of postal services of the total number of providers who submitted the documents necessary for the calculation of the monitoring tariff have the obligation to pay it. The total value of the monitoring tariff for 2007, established as a percent either of the turnover or of the revenues achieved from the provision of electronic communications networks or services and of postal services, amounts to RON 23,871,803.
The other authorised providers shall not pay the monitoring tariff because, in 2006, their turnover or their revenues achieved from the provision of electronic communications networks or services and of postal services registered less than EUR 100,000. ANRCTI shall sanction according to the legal provisions in force the 74 providers that did not submit in due time the necessary documents in order to be established the monitoring tariff and shall impose on them the payment of the monitoring tariff they owe.
The value of the communications and postal services market – calculated by excluding the providers who registered in 2006 a turnover or revenues achieved from the provision of electronic communications networks or services and of postal services up to EUR 100,000 – amounts to EUR 3,954,270,333. This value was calculated at the average exchange rate of the European currency for 2006, namely RON 3,5245.
ANRCTI shall inform each provider on the monitoring tariff they owe, following that they pay it within 30 days from the decision communication date. Should a provider fail to pay the monitoring tariff, as well as the due penalties, he shall be forced to pay it, based on a decision which becomes writ of execution on the date when the payment becomes outstanding, according to the provisions under art.141 paragraph (2) of the Government Ordinance no.92/2003 on the Fiscal Procedure Code, republished, with the subsequent amendments and completions. Furthermore, if an electronic communications provider fails to pay the monitoring tariff, as well as the due penalties, within 90 days from when the payment becomes outstanding, the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology may suspend or withdraw its right to provide electronic communications networks or services based on the general authorisation regime, in accordance with the provisions under art.57 of the Government Emergency Ordinance no.79/2002.
Further details on the monitoring tariff may be found here.