The Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) launched a public consultation procedure under the Art. 37 of the Law on Electronic Communications on a draft decision for supplement of a Reference Offer for wholesale line rental of Bulgarian Telecommunication Company AD.

The draft reference offer and CRC’s position are published on the Commission’s website www.crc.bg under the section “Public consultation”. The interested parties may send their written statements within 30 days of the date of this publication to the following address: Sofia, Gurko 6, Str., Communications Regulation Commission.

 

By its Decision № 629 of 30.08.2013., the Communications Regulation Commission adopted a position on the provision of national roaming service following the statements of the interested parties received under the public consultation procedure.

The CRC’s Position on the provision of national roaming service  reflects the grounds on the matters presented in the consultative document and a summary of the interested parties’ statements, received during the public consultation, launched by CRC’s Decision № 450 of 14.06.2013.

By Protocol Decision No 3 of 22 August 2013 the CRC approved the final adoption of the execution of the public procurement contract with subject “Verification of the net costs of Bulgarian Telecommunications Company AD for provision of the universal service in 2009 and 2010 financial years” and a public version of the auditor’s report.

On the 10^th of July 2013 the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) and the Managing Authority of Operational Program „Administrative capacity” signed a contract for the implementation of project „Enhancing the administrative capacity of the Communications Regulation Commission”. The project is with duration of 12 months and aims at improving the professional competence of the CRC employees to carry out more effectively and efficiently their obligations through training in the Institute of Public Administration /IPА/. After a comprehensive analysis of the trainings conducted up to now for the CRC administration and in compliance with the priorities and the tasks from the work program of the regulator, training needs have been identified both for long standing as well as for newly hired employees in the following areas:

1. Management skills and effective communication;

2. Human resources management;

3. Effective communications in the state administration;

4. Legal aspects and management of the administrative activity;

5. Financial and economic management;

6. Е-government and information technologies;

7. Communication with the European institutions, which includes foreign language training.

The training of the employees will be realized through more than 400 IPA courses in 2013 and 2014.

The project with a value of 89 991 BGN is entirely financed by the European Social Fund through the Operational Program „Administrative capacity”.

By its Decision No 412 of 28.05.2013, the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) adopted an annual report in the field of postal services “Analysis of the postal services market for 2012”.