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Round tables with stakeholders on markets regulated by HAKOM are an additional step in the improvement of market regulation, in the first place aimed at promoting regulatory predictability by means of dialogue and discussions on current topics.  

The first signal measuring showed the removal of interferences in the County of Istria and Primorje-due to switching off the transmitters in the regions of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto himself. 

During an interesting and interactive discussion the participants were informed about operators’ and consumers’ rights in the field of electronic communications services regarding the conclusion and termination of subscriber’s contracts, the possibility of controlling consumption and protection of the unwanted billings. 

The programme whose objective is to educate the  primary school children by providing necessary information to their parents about responsible behaviour when using the network technologies was presented at the premises of the Ministry of Science and Education. 

The meeting focused on the indicators of the electronic communications market, market regulation, availability and development of broadband access in the Republic of Croatia, spectrum management, user protection, right of way and building conditions, investments into electronic communications infrastructure and access to electronic communications infrastructure.  

The purpose of the Round Table was to coordinate the activities of all actors on the rail services market, in particular to coordinate the working hours of all institutions in the Port of Rijeka with a view to improving the competitiveness of the Port of Rijeka and its role in the rail freight transport. 

The Conference on the electronic communication technologies and standards in informatics KOM 2016 was held on 28 and 29 November. The topics at the Conference which was attended by HAKOM's experts were the following: “Networks and Network technologies”, Telecommunications and Services t ”Network Management and Solutions“, “Mobile Networks Safety and Protection 

The project team is responsible for the preparation of the regulatory framework and organization of the use of radio frequency spectrum allocated to satellite service. 

The topic of the Seminar was an overview of the implementation of regulations in the field of electronic communications related to the planning, design and construction. The organizer of the seminar was the Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers (HKIE).

The Public Forum was held in the municipality of Gornji Mihaljevec and HAKOM’s experts informed the participants about rights and obligations of the end-users as well as the operators’ obligations of electronic communications services. 

HAKOM’s experts took part  in the ERGP 's Plenary Session in Naples, and the major topic  of the meeting was the ERGP medium-term strategy for the period 2017-2019 and the cross-border delivery  package delivery in the system of e-commerce from the perspective of the end- users as well as the  further development of the  EU postal services market. 

Following the invitation of the organizer, the Ministry of Regional Development and the EU Funds, the Meeting of the Monitoring Committee responsible for  the Operational Programme "Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014 - 2020" was held in Zagreb. 

The Government of the Republic of Croatia adopted the opinion according to which the Croatian Parliament should accept HAKOM's Annual Activity Report for 2015. The Croatian Parliament should discuss the Annual Activity Report and vote on its adoption. 

The meeting was convened with a view to developing recommendations on addressing and numbering and other regulatory technical issues in the electronic communications sector. 

A civil/military meeting is taking place in Prague aimed at improving the use of the spectrum and its harmonization. 

An implementing regulation on the calculation of charges for incoming roaming calls was adopted at the meeting. The European Commission also presented a new draft implementing regulation on criteria for the fair use of roaming services, the voting on which is expected to take place at the following meeting, in early December.  

At the official opening of the event, the participants were welcomed on behalf of HAKOM by the  President of the Council, Mr. Dražen Lučić. In addition to the President of the Council, the Conference will also be attended by HAKOM's radiocommunications experts. 

The outcome of Forum’s work will contribute to the process of international coordination of frequencies necessary for the switchover to DVB-T2 and for the freeing of the spectrum of the second digital dividend for services in mobile communications networks.   

The main topics of the two-day workshop, held in Ljubljana, were related to the railway legislation, challenges facing the  rail freight transport as well as the challenges facing the railway passenger transport in the Danube region. 

The aim of the education is to introduce the representatives of regulators with the current EU regulatory framework and the most important topic of the first out of a total of four planned trainings refers to the competition, ex-ante regulation and the EU policies and initiatives.