August 2024

How can one request to be granted currently allocatable numbering resources?

An applicant pursuing the issuance of the License for the use of numbering resources (LURN) will submit an application to ANCOM, by filling in the

• standard form (average duration of completion: 9 min) in Annex 1 to Decision No 376/2013, as amended and supplemented, for the numbering resources listed at point 1 above, or
• standard form (average duration of completion: 8 min) in Annex. 1 to Decision No 321/2008, as amended, for the numbering resources listed at point 2 above, or
• standard form (average time of completion: 8 min) in Annex 2 to Decision No 379/2013, as amended, for the numbering resources listed at point 3 above.

The following information and documents will be attached to the standard form and will be part of the LURN application:

• implementation specification for each category of numbering resources requested, according to
• Annex No. 2 to Decision No 376/2013, as amended and supplemented, for the numbering resources listed at point 1 above, in accordance with the
• Annex No. 2 and Annex 3 to Decision No 321/2008, as amended, for the numbering resources listed at point 2 above and in accordance with the
• Annex No. 3 to Decision No 379/2013, as amended, for the numbering resources listed at point 3 above.

– for numbers of the format 116(xyz), in accordance with Decision No 321/2008, as amended, Article 10:

• information on the access and interconnection contracts concluded by the applicant with providers of electronic communications networks and services, in force up to the date of transmission of the application;
• information on the implementation of other national short numbers by the applicant, if such is the case;
• copy of the pre-contract concluded with a view to providing harmonised social services, showing: the identification data and contact details of the provider of harmonised social services, the estimated date of service launch and the detailed conditions for access and use of the national number short of the form 116(xyz) and, in particular, the way in which the provider of the harmonised social services will ensure compliance with the conditions for the provision of the service set out in the Annex to the European Commission Decision 2007/116/EC, published by ANCOM, for that number;
• information regarding the capacity of the provider of harmonised social services to provide services of a social character, i.e.:

a) previous experience in providing similar social services, if applicable;

b) copies of conventions or protocols concluded with public institutions, showing the involvement of the provider of harmonised social services in similar social projects or services or the support of public institutions for the provision of the harmonized social service;

c) activity reports published;

d) human resources that will be involved in the provision of the service, the relevant professional training and their experience in the provision of similar social services;

e) copies of the authorizations or endorsements issued by the public authorities, showing the field of activity of the provider of the harmonized social services.

– for numbers of the format 118(xyz), in accordance with Decision No 321/2008, as amended, Article 16:

• a description of the subscriber information service provided, as well as of the related services, for each number requested (including the manner in which the conditions for the provision of the services set out in Article 7 are fulfilled, as well as the quality parameters for the subscriber information services to be provided);
• description of the plans of the subscriber information service provider to include in the database subscribers of publicly available electronic communications service providers who assign numbers;
• the estimated date on which the subscriber information service will be available to the public;
• how to use the national short numbers of the format 118(xyz) previously allocated to the applicant, if applicable;

– for numbers of the format 19vx or 19vxy, according to Decision No 379/2013, as amended:

• the name and detailed description of the service of public interest at national level or of the service of general interest to be provided by means of that number;
• copies of documents showing that the person who will provide the service of public interest at national level carries out activities similar to the services for which the number is intended, in accordance with the provisions of this Decision; for public authorities and institutions, their legal duties in the field of services of public interest provided at national level will be identified.
• where the number is assigned by the provider of the electronic communications service to a provider of services of public interest at national level or of services of general interest, in addition to the documents referred to in paragraph (3), the following shall be added:
• a copy of the pre-contract or agreement concluded between the provider of the publicly available electronic communications service and the entity intending to provide the service of public interest at national level or the service of general interest, showing the latter's identification and contact details, the service provided, the conditions of access to and use of the national short number of the format 19vx or 19vxy.