CRC adopted a final decision on definition, analysis and assessment of the market for access to the public telephone network at a fixed location for residential and business consumers, market for publicly available national telephone services provided at a fixed location for residential and business consumers and market for publicly available international telephone services provided at a fixed location for residential and business consumers

 

On 22 November 2016 the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) adopted a final decision on definition, analysis and assessment of the market for access to the public telephone network at a fixed location for residential and business consumers, market for publicly available national telephone services provided at a fixed location for residential and business consumers and market for publicly available international telephone services provided at a fixed location for residential and business consumers in the Republic of Bulgaria in line with the EU regulatory framework.

 

In CRC’s final decision have been reflected both the results from the conducted public consultation with the stakeholders and the opinion of the Commission for Protection of Competition. The European Commission (EC) has no comments on the notified market analysis.

 

The results from the conducted market analysis have shown that the defined markets should not be included in the scope of the regulated markets because they do not meet cumulatively the three criteria test for definition of a relevant market susceptible to ex ante regulation. Therefore the imposed on the undertaking with significant market power obligations in the previous round of market analysis ^[1] should be revoked.

 

The final decision, the market analysis together with the summarized results from the conducted public consultation and the consultations with the Commission for Protection of Competition and EC were published on 28.11.2016 under the section “Market regulation – electronic communications”.