Annual Report - Georgian National Communications Commission

the European Commission's request, a review analysis of regulating
legislative-normative base has been carried out. The new tendencies
of the communications market development have been demonstrated
in the harmonized document of electronic communications regulating
directives, worked out by the European Commission.
The kit of these directives (6 documents) has been published in
the official publication of the European Commission and was
enforced on 25th June 2003. The new kit of harmonized regulating
directives contains several documents, including:
• Framework Directive —2002/21/EC
• Directive on access to and interconnection of electronic
communications and associated facilities (2002/19/EC);
• Directive on the authorization of electronic communications
networks and services (2002/20/EC);
• Directive on universal service and users' rights relating to
electronic communications networks (2002/22/EC);
• Directive on competition in the markets for electronic communications
networks and services (2002/77/EC);
• Directive on the processing of personal data and the protection
of privacy (2002/58/EC).
Together with the above-mentioned directives, the following
documents are to be taken into account as well:
• Decision on a regulatory framework for radio spectrum
policy (676/2002/EC);
• Regulation on unbundled access to the local loop
(2887/2000);
• Decision on methodological rules of evaluation of significant
market power and electronic communications market
analysis (2002/C 165/03);
• Recommendations on definition of interrelated service
types on consumer market.