Today, 3 October 2019, the BEREC Board of Regulators elected the BEREC Chair for 2021, Michel Van Bellinghen – chairman of the Council of the Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT).

In 2020 Michel Van Bellinghen will serve as a Vice-Chair and incoming BEREC Chair 2021. The other elected Vice Chairs are Monika Каras (NMHH, Hungary) and Тоnko Оbuljen (HAKOM, Croatia) together with Jeremy Godfrey (ComReg, Ireland) as the outgoing BEREC Chair. They will support Dan Sjöblom (PTS, Sweden), who will be the BEREC Chair for 2020, composing together the so called BEREC Mini-Board.

The Board of Regulators appoints its Chair and Vice-Chairs from among its members. The term of office of the Chair and of the Vice-Chairs is one year. Before serving their term as a Chair, the Chair has firstly to serve one year as a Vice-Chair. For ensuring continuity of BEREC’s work, the Chair has to serve as a Vice-Chair for the year following their term as the Chair. Every year the Board of Regulators appoints the Chair for the year subsequent to the following year and the Vice-Chairs for the following year.

For the first time in its history, the BEREC Board of Regulators decided to change the tradition of electing its new Chair and Vice-Chairs at the final ordinary Plenary meeting of the year in December. Instead, the elections took place today at the 3^rd ordinary Plenary meeting.

The main aim of this change is to improve the development process of the annual Work Programme, giving more time for the necessary assessments, preparations, stakeholder involvement and drafting.