The European Parliament and the EU Council have reached an agreement on the Gigabit Infrastructure Act (GIA), which aims to accelerate the spread of gigabit network infrastructures across Europe, reducing installation costs, partly caused by issuing permissions before installing or upgrading networks.
We read it in a note from the Council.
The objective of the regulation is also to guarantee legal certainty and transparency for all the economic actors involved, and to make the planning and installation processes more efficient for operators of public electronic communications networks.
This minimum harmonization law also concerns the deployment and access to physical infrastructure within buildings.
It is expected to facilitate cross-border applications and enable stakeholders, whether electronic communications operators, equipment manufacturers or civil engineering companies, to realize better economies of scale.
“By unifying the network across the entire territory, we are building a bridge to a broader European ecosystem, demonstrating our interest in harmonization at European level” said Mathieu Michel, Belgian State Secretary for Digitalisation, Administrative Simplification, privacy protection and building regulations on behalf of the Belgian EU Presidency.
"This initiative - he added - will not only promote fast connectivity for our fellow citizens, but also economies of scale for the operators and businesses involved".
After today's provisional agreement, the technical work of experts from both institutions will continue with a view to presenting a compromise text to the co-legislators for final approval.
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