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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. 

Brussels hosted the workshop on IP interconnection organized by BEREC and OECD 

At the Conference, the latest developments and trends were the topics discussed by the experts from Croatia and abroad. The participants of the panel discussion were the representatives from television stations, IT and telecommunications as well as the representatives of the regulatory authorities. The World Television Day has been celebrated for more than 20 years, and this year's topic of celebration was the importance and influence of the media in Europe. 

The main objective of the meeting is to prepare the 29thBEREC regular plenary Meeting, to be held on 8 and 9 December 2016, in Berlin, Germany. 

In Brussels, the Future Internet Forum's second meeting  was held, were among other things the most important topics were  related to the 5G technology, cloud computing (Cloud), Internet of Things (IoT) and NGI (Next Generation Internet). by HAKOM's Executive director Mario Weber took part in the meeting. 

The discussion topic at the meeting of the Committee for Electronic Communications (ECC) was on the radio frequency spectrum for 5G technology, the use of GSM, UMTS and LTE systems on aircraft and the use of short-range devices.