Communications Regulatory Authority

through which the Bosnia Herzegovina Communications Authority may gather, each
year, useful information on the enterprises operating in the communications sector. This
instrument will enable the CRA to monitor the market developments and its actors,
allowing it to promptly adopt the most effective regulatory measures.
The third section envisaged by the work plan concerns the organization of
activities focusing on the transfer of skills that are important for the personnel of the
Bosnian Authority. For this purpose, AGCOM organized both an advanced course for
CRA functionaries, and study trips to Italy and meetings with the major sector
operators. During the course, particular attention was devoted to converging
technologies and digitalization processes, which will represent, in the coming years, the
sector’s main development engine.
Twinnings such as that illustrated between AGCOM and the CRA represent one
of the main instruments of foreign policy adopted by the European Union, and their
purpose is to prepare the participation of the Balkan countries in the stabilization and
association process, a phase during which the candidate countries negotiate their
possible entry into the Union.
The twinning activity with the Bosnia Herzegovina Communications Authority,
which was a major commitment for AGCOM’s structure, contributed materially to the
process of Bosnia’s joining the European Union, with the advantages it entails for the
stability of a region so close to our country. It also, thanks to the alignment of Bosnia’s
regulatory framework to those adopted in the major European countries, has taken on
considerable importance within the framework of the globalization process of the sector
of reference. Operators interested in expanding their activity in regions adjoining ours
will, in fact, find things easier dealing with a transparent, effective regulatory context
not too different from their national one.
3.2 RELATIONS WITH NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
During 2005, the relations between AGCOM and the national institutions
continued, based as always on a mutual spirit of cooperation.
AGCOM held hearings before Parliament, its main institutional contact, and, in
particular, on 20 September President Corrado Calabrò reported to the 9 th Commission –
“Transport, Post Office, and Telecommunications” – on the main themes concerning
AGCOM’s activity.
AGCOM carried out consultation activities with the Parliamentary Commission
for the general policy and the supervision of the radio and television services for the
purpose of issuing the regulations, within their respective responsibilities, for governing
radio and television broadcasts on elections and referendums (cf. paragraph 2.14).
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