Report on the functioning of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC)

This report presents only the main findings of the EECC review, which are the following:

• The Significant Market Power (SMP) regime remains the key instrument for ex ante regulation.
• Radio spectrum is of outmost strategic and geopolitical importance; it is essential to enable communication, drive economic growth and social prosperity, and support critical services across various sectors.
• The universal service obligations (USO) in the EECC are a safety net to ensure all consumers in the Union have affordable adequate internet and voice communications services. However, the possibility to impose USO for the availability of the services is not widely used by Member States and the measures to ensure affordability, where used, differ across Member States.
• The provisions on end-user rights are mostly still fit for purpose but in some respects could be simplified.

For more detailed findings on the provisions covered in this report and for the full evaluation of EECC provisions, together with the other legislation revised for the preparation of the Commission’s proposal for a Digital Networks Act (DNA), please refer to Annex 11 of the Impact Assessment to the DNA legislative proposal.

This report is conducted together with the evaluation of the BEREC Regulation.

You can download the main findings of the EECC review below.