HAKOM at the third BEREC Stakeholder Forum Meeting

 
ZAGREB, 16 October 2015 - In Brussels, the third in a row BEREC Stakeholder Forum Meeting was held ,bringing together 170 participants, representatives of 100 different organizations, including the representatives of the national regulatory bodies. Mr. Domagoj Jurjević, Deputy President of the Council participated at the meeting on behalf of the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM).

The Stakeholder forum is an event where BEREC, for the third year in a row, has been representing its planned activities dealing with the topics that are of great importance to the all stakeholders on the market as well the future electronic communications market development. Accordingly, this year's "BEREC Stakeholder Forum Meeting" embraced three thematic units. In addition to the draft BEREC Work Programme for 2016, the topics such as “Internet of Things – IOT” and Machine to Machine - M2M Communications ˝  as well as” The Digital ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities for Europe “were discussed.

The keynote speaker Mr. Günther Oettinger, European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and the Society who among other things, emphasized the importance of taking the advantage of digital single market because the term "digital economy" is not only related to the telecommunications sector. According to Mr. Oettinger, it is necessary to find the way to stimulate the development of all other EU economy sectors by means of digital technology, which will be easier if all the advantages of EU digital single market are used.
 

ABOUT HAKOM: HAKOM (www.hakom.hr) - Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries – ensures preconditions for a fair market competition, stable growth and environment for innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market. HAKOM protects users’ interests and the possibility of choice among various communications and postal services at affordable prices, defines sustainable competitive conditions for operators and service providers under fair conditions for return on investment, and provides support to economic growth, public services and the quality of life in the Republic of Croatia by using modern technologies. HAKOM’ strategic goals are: to promote regulation of the electronic communications and postal services market, to support growth of investments and innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market, to provide efficient use of limited resources, to accelerate the growth of broadband products and services, to provide affordable offers of communications and postal services, to provide protection and informing of users, to build an efficient and comprehensive information system, to define and implement efficient processes, and to acquire multi-disciplinary competencies in market regulation.