By its Decision No 285 of 13.06.2014 the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) launched a public consultation procedure on a Draft Decision on imposing obligations for publication of information concerning the quality of mobile services.

The full text of the draft is published on the Internet site of CRC’s website  www.crc.bg  under the Section „Public consultations”.

The Communications Regulation Commission

invests in the qualification of its employees

The activities were presented at the meeting, the main part of them being trainings from the catalog of the Institute of Public Administration on the following subjects:

І.        Management skills in the administration;

ІІ.       Human resources management;

ІІІ.      Effective communications in  public administration;

ІV.     Legal aspects and management of the administrative activity. Prevention and combating corruption;

V.      Financial and economic management;

VІ.     Е-government: establishing, skills;

VІІ.    Specialized foreign language training.

The financing of activities is 100% from the Operational Programme "Administrative Capacity" and the total sum amounts to 89 991 BGN. The activities took place during the last 12 months - since 10.07.2013 and this is actually the duration of the project itself.

For this period the CRC employees, which are the target group of the project, have completed 409 training courses of the Institute of Public Administration.

This is the second successful CRC project with this operational programme. The first one - „Extending the information system „Licensing and registers” has been declared “best practice” by OPAC. Through this project 39 electronic services are provided to the citizens and the business as part of the future e-government.

The Chairman of the Communications Regulation Commission (CRС) Mr. Veselin Bozhkov, PhD, took participation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10), which was held during the period 9-12 June in Geneva.

The World Summit on the Information Society was held under the aegis of the United Nations and coordinated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The main participants in the Forum were: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Summit was organized in an extended format WSIS+10, with the aim to review comprehensively the results from the 10-year WSIS activity, as well as to adopt two key documents, reflecting the implementation of WSIS decisions and the vision of the High Level Event WSIS +10 for the future development beyond 2015.

On the personal invitation by the Secretary-General of ITU Dr Hamadoun Touré the CRC Chairman Mr. Veselin Bozhkov, PhD, gave an official statement before the High Level Forum in the form of a political declaration, stressing Bulgaria’s contribution for achieving the WSIS goals in the past 10-year period. Furthermore the CRC commitment was highlighted towards Bulgaria’s high level political engagements, in whose execution the National Regulatory Authority participates within its competence.

More than 1600 participants were present at the event, including about 100 ministers and heads of international organizations, representatives of the business, science and the civil society, to whom a platform was given within the High Level Segment to express their views about the achievements, challenges and the recommendations concerning the implementation of the WSIS Action Plan, the new trends and the questions of strategic importance for the development of the ICT sector.

The Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) warns the end users of misleading short text message (SMS) urging the receiver to call an international number indicated in the message (“Call me urgently…”).

Making an outgoing call to the numbers indicated in this messages leads to the realization of undesired international traffic from the subscribers to destinations outside the European Union. In order to restrict the adverse financial consequences, CRC advises the end users to verify carefully the indicated in the messages numbers before making an outgoing call.  

By its Decision No 150 of 3 April 2014 the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) launched a public consultations procedure on a draft Decision on amendment and supplement to Rules for carrying оut electronic communications through radio equipment using frequency spectrum which does not need to be individually assigned.

The full text of the draft is published on the CRC website at the following address www.crc.bg under Section “Public consultation”.