European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
The Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications (CEPT ), ( German: European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications) is an umbrella organization for cooperation of regulatory authorities from 48 European countries with a main office in Copenhagen, Denmark.
History
The CEPT was founded in 1959 by 19 national postal and telecommunications companies ( PTTs ). In Germany, the CEPT has gained in the 1980s because of the 1981 character adopted standards for the widespread screen text notoriety.
The CEPT members decided in 1988 the establishment of ETSI.
In 2004, a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) was signed between CEPT ECC and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute ) renewed, with the purpose of cooperation in the framework of the European process between standardization and regulation of radio communication equipment and systems. The MoU is to contribute to consistent implementation of the results of relevant technical compatibility studies of the ECC in European harmonized standards of ETSI.
Objectives
The CEPT aims to provide a forum for regulatory issues in the postal and telecommunications sector to support its members and to promote cooperation at European level, and to clarify policy issues at the European level (eg efficient use of radio frequencies, technical compatibility of radio services ) the relations between the European regulatory authorities, the EU and the contacts to ITU and UPU are maintained. Tendency to be cast on a long-term harmonization of national rules in the postal and telecommunications sector at European and international level.
Structure
The CEPT is divided into committees:
- Electronic Communications Committee (ECC ) and
- European Committee for Postal Regulation ( CERP)
In addition, the CEPT has set up on the same level as ECC and CERP Working Group ITU ( ITU - WG ).
The European Communications Office (ECO) in Copenhagen, Denmark, which will be called European Radiocommuncations Office ( ERO) led to 30 June 2009, which the ECC office. It has the necessary expertise to develop plans and to advise the ECC. It shall also undertake consultations, forms the interface to the national regulatory authorities concerned and the publications of the ECC.
For the regulatory requirements in the radio beings are the companies located in the ECC working groups WG FM ( Working Group Frequency Management ) and WG SE ( Working Group Spectrum Engineering ) is of importance, which of themselves with the planning of efficient use of radio frequencies, as well as with the technical compatibility radio services deal.
Decisions, Recommendations and Reports ( Decisions, Recommendations and Reports ) that are prepared by the working groups mentioned adopted by the ECC, are freely available in the document database of the ERO (see links).
Members
Today, the regulatory authorities from 48 countries are brought together in the CEPT (as of 2012). These are 45 of the 46 countries in Europe (ie all except Kazakhstan), and the three geographically to Asia associated countries Cyprus, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Armenia is not a member of the CEPT.
The German regulatory authority for the postal service and telecommunications, the Federal Network Agency.
In Switzerland, the Postal Regulation Authority ( PostReg ) is a professionally independent authority within the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK ). The PostReg works with the CERP, while Switzerland is represented in the ECC by the Federal Office of Communications ( OFCOM).
The regulatory authority in Austria is located in the postal and telecommunications sector at the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology ( bmvit ), the purpose, inter alia, the instruction-bound "broadcasting and telecom regulatory GmbH ( RTR ) " uses.
The German Post AG, the Swiss Post and the Austrian Post AG as postal companies members of the Post Europ and not the CEPT.