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What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text
From · plenary report· 25 Sept 2023
on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures to reduce the cost of deploying gigabit electronic communications networks and repealing Directive 2014/61/EU (Gigabit Infrastructure Act)
To · adopted text· 23 Apr 2024
Measures to reduce the cost of deploying gigabit electronic communications networks (Gigabit Infrastructure Act)
These two texts have too little in common to compare paragraph by paragraph: they are different documents rather than versions of one (for example one group’s motion and the joint text that was adopted).
+9 added · −314 removed · 1 changed paragraphs, packaging included.
Part 6 of 7: Paragraphs 301–319
Removed:(1) the title is replaced by the following:
Removed:‘Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 laying down measures concerning open internet access, abolishing retail surcharges for regulated intra-Union communications and amending Directive 2002/22/EC and Regulation (EU) No 531/2012’;
Removed:(2) in Article 1, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
Removed:‘This Regulation also abolishes retail surcharges for regulated intra-Union communications to ensure that consumers are not charged excessive prices for making number-based interpersonal communications originating in the Member State of the consumer’s domestic provider and terminating at any fixed or mobile number in another Member State.’;
Removed:(3) Article 5a is replaced by the following:
Removed:‘Article 5a Abolition of retail surcharges for regulated intra-EU communications
Removed:1. Providers of electronic communications to the public shall not apply tariffs to regulated intra-EU communications terminating in another Member State that are higher than the tariffs applicable to services terminating in the same Member State, unless they demonstrate the existence of direct costs that are objectively justified.
Removed:2. By... [DATE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE + 6 MONTHS], BEREC shall provide guidelines setting out the criteria for determining the objectively justified direct costs referred to in paragraph 1.
Removed:3. By... [DATE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE + 12 MONTHS], and every two years thereafter, the Commission shall, after consulting BEREC, publish a report on the application of the requirement laid down in paragraph 1, including an assessment of the evolution of intra-Union communication tariffs.’;
Removed:(4) in Article 10, paragraph 5 is deleted.
Removed:1. Directive 2014/61/EU is repealed.
Removed:2. References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Regulation and read in accordance with the correlation table in the Annex.
Removed:1. This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Removed:2. It shall apply from [6 months after its entry into force].
Removed:This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Removed:Done at Brussels,
Removed:For the European Parliament For the Council
Removed:The President The President
Removed:Correlation table