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What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report

From · draft committee report· 15 Jun 2023

ITRE-PR-749242

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 · plenary report· 25 Sept 2023

A-9-2023-0275

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)

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).

+293 added · −64 removed · 5 changed paragraphs, packaging included.

Part 7 of 8: Paragraphs 361–374

Added:‘Article 5a Abolition of retail surcharges for regulated intra-EU communications

Added: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.

Added: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.

Added: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.’;

Added:(4) in Article 10, paragraph 5 is deleted.

Added:1. Directive 2014/61/EU is repealed.

Added: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 References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Regulation and read in accordance with the correlation table in the Annex.

Added:1. This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Added:2. It shall apply from [6 months after its entry into force].

Added:This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Added:Done at Brussels,

Added:For the European Parliament For the Council

Added:The President The President

Added:Correlation table