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Internet Governance Forum brought together the representatives from governments, academia, industry and civil society organizations from the South and Southeastern Europe. 

The main topics of the meeting are related to the CEPT report 59, whose task is to develop the technical adjustment of the radio frequency spectrum for the use of short-range devices as well as the discussion on the remarks, the requirements for radio frequency spectrum and developed compatibility studies related to the Recommendation 70-03 on short-range devices. 

The working group deals with the issues regarding the development of next generation networks and the challenges arising from it. The topics of the meeting were the adoption of prepared reports and continued work on the report dealing with migration towards IP in the access part of the network. 

There has been a new attempt to deceit the users who were receiving the calls from +882 13800xxx in the network of one mobile electronic communications operator on Thursday. HAKOM advises the users not to respond to this and similar calls in case they have doubts about the caller’s authenticity. 

Roaming prices will depend on the national tariff selected by individual users inceased by roaming fees within the EU. That means that every Croatian roaming user will be paying for that service according to the tariff agreed with his operator for national traffic increased by the operator for the appropriate roaming fee.

The most important topics of the fourth training organized by BEREC include spectrum management, consumer protection, competition and universal services. 

The seminar was organized by the Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers and it was intended for authorized electrical engineers who use legislation and standards in the field of electrical communication in their everyday work in relation to design and building.  

The meeting which is taking place in Luxembourg focuses on the issues of technical regulation and interconnection standards. 

The organized by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations focused on the development of the regulatory framework for mobile communications on vessels and planes. 

The working group is responsible for adopting and implementing European Commission recommendations and the meeting is organized as a workshop where examples of migration to IP interconnection from several regulatory authorities from EU Member States will be presented.  

Following the invitation of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, Mr. Dražen Lučić, President of the Council of HAKOM attended a two-day meeting in Amsterdam. 

During the workshop headed by Martin Grgić, Filip Kovačić Popov and Fran Stanić who designed the interactive educational cube the children acquired knowledge about colours, sounds and laws of physics by subconsciously developing their logical thinking. 

Pursuant to Article 43 of the Postal Services Act, the use of charity postage stamps in postal traffic and their application is voluntary so that the postal service provider may charge for the value of charity postage stamp only if the sender voluntarily gives his consent. The only exception to this rule is in case of Law on the Croatian Red Cross regulating the payment obligation of the postal service provider for the benefit of the CRC. 

The working group will focus on the future development of the postal services market and its influence on market access and competition in the light of the recent case law concerning the discount regime in the postal services sector.  

The initiative is aimed at raising the awareness about the importance of including girls in the information and communication technologies sector and at emphasising the advantages of a career in the ICT sector. It will be celebrated in the entire world on 28 April. During the week before the International Girls in ICT Day, HAKOM will organize a series of educational workshops.  

The objective of the meeting was the preparation for the 26th Congress of the Universal Postal Union- UPU which will be held in Istanbul this year in autumn.
 

The common positions were agreed on and tasks were distributed at the first meeting of the European working group responsible for the preparation of the World Radio Communication Conference (WRC-19)  

The discussion topics at the meeting which was held in Budapest were as follows: the LTE coverage measurement, harmful interference in the 3G UMTS network caused by DECT 6.0, the provisions of measuring forces in the FM area, PCI measurements and the impact of wind farms on various mobile technologies. 

At the meeting which brought together the representatives of the regulatory authorities of the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia, the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries HAKOM was represented by Mr. Mario Weber, Executive Director. 

At the conference in Warsaw HAKOM's experts presented HAKOM’s Interactive GIS portal as an example of the national initiative of mapping the availability and the broadband services use.