Regulation 2020/3/EU

Summary
Regulation 2020/3/EU creates a single European Telecoms Regulator with the national regulation authorities being put under the authority of the European Telecoms Regulator.

The European Telecoms Regulator was given the authority to harmonise all telecoms regulations in the European Union and was put in charge of drafting all future regulations instead of the national telecoms regulators. This was by establishing a new Directorate-General under the authority of the European Commission which would use the Decision mechanism to ensure regulatory harmonisation across the European Union.

The system of distributing Frequency Licenses has also been put under European level control with one license with one payment required to operate in the whole European Union.

The Regulation drafted by Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market and the Digital Economy, Andrus Ansip, and Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Competition, Consumers and the Internal Market Margrethe Vestager was intended to bring about a single European telecoms market under which competition may develop as well as European champions.