EUR 2.6 Billion – The Turnover of the Companies Who Submitted the Financial Statements to ANRC

The cumulated turnover of the 870 providers of electronic communications services or networks who submitted the financial statements for year 2003 to the National Regulatory Authority for Communications by the end of June for the calculation of the monitoring tariff, amounts to the value of ROL 91186 billion, i.e. EUR 2.428 billion, calculated at the average exchange rate for year 2003 (EUR 1= ROL 37,555). This figure does not cover activities such as architecture and construction of communications networks, communications equipments and software production or sales. The provision of private electronic communications services and networks is also not included in this amount.

Based on the financial data submitted so far, ANRC set out the 2004 monitoring tariff to 0.23 of the turnover of the providers of electronic communications networks or services for 2003. This percentage will be communicated to the operators and they will make the payment in two equal instalments, by December 31, 2004. The monitoring tariff charged to the providers of electronic communications networks and services is set out, on grounds of the law, based on the expenditures estimated by ANRC for the current year, as a percentage which can be no higher than 0.5% of the total turnover of each provider for the previous year.

The total turnover of the 100 companies within the field of postal services who submitted the financial statements to ANRC is equal to ROL 7068 billion, which represents, at the same average exchange rate for 2003, EUR 188 million. The legislation in force provides for a fixed monitoring tariff for the postal services providers, that amounts to 0.1% of the turnover of the providers for the previous year.

Given the fact that the total turnover of the providers of electronic communications networks or services will change as the providers who have not yet submitted their financial statements to ANRC will be included in the calculation, the monitoring tariff will be recalculated in October. The second instalment of the monitoring tariff will be modified accordingly, in an adjustment process.

The providers of public electronic communications networks and publicly available electronic communications services, as well as the postal services providers have the legal obligation to pay a monitoring fee to ANRC. The providers of private electronic communications networks and services do not have the obligation to pay the annual monitoring tariff. The monitoring tariff paid by the companies on the market represents the source of income for the budget of ANRC, institution entirely financed from own incomes. This financing system guarantees the Authority’s status of independent regulator.