Spectrum management
One of the major objectives of ANCOM is to manage the whole radio spectrum throughout the Romanian territory, the Romanian airspace,as well as in the inland waterways and maritime area under its jurisdiction. In order to achieve this objective, ANC applies the long-term policy and strategies for spectrum management developed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI).
In Romania, spectrum management complies with the principles of objectivity, proportionality, transparency, impartiality and, where possible, of technological neutrality.
The main spectrum management activities performed by ANCOM, directly or in collaboration with other institutions are the following:
1) elaboration and adoption of specific legislation in the field of electronic communications using the radio spectrum (rules, specifications, standards and other technical and administrative regulations in the field of radio spectrum); also, ANC is directly involved in the elaboration of the main corpus of legislation in the electronic communications sector (general regulatory framework for electronic communications, Universal Service etc);
2) planning of the whole radio spectrum, by:
a) allocation of frequency bands; for this purpose, ANCOM takes part in the development of the National Table of Frequency Bands Allocations (NTFA), which is adopted by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology(MCTI);
b) designation of frequency bands for various applications and radiocommunication systems, allotment of frequencies or frequency bands to categories of users;
c) elaboration of strategies for spectrum planning and use; ANCOM is directly involved in the elaboration of these strategy documents, which are subsequently adopted by MCTI;
3) detailed management of the radio spectrum, having an exclusive or shared non-governmental status of use according to the NTFA, in view of its rational and efficient use, by:
a) spectrum engineering, which means conducting technical checkups aimed at an efficient and rational use of the radio spectrum, as well as at elaborating strategies and plans for the use of the radio frequencies; it also comprises technical analysis and checkups of the frequency usages in view of preventing harmful interferences and of ensuring radioelectric compatibility between the authorised radiocommunication stations and networks and newly requested radiocommunication stations and networks, in order to assess the possibility of identifying new frequency assignments/allotments for the latter;
b) assignment and allotment of radio frequencies/frequency bands, while observing the national and international technical and administrative regulations, the internal agreements and protocols and the international treaties and agreements to which Romania is party, regarding the use of the radio spectrum;
c) issuing the licences for the use of radio frequencies and the broadcasting licences, by which rights to use the radio spectrum are granted;
d) keeping account of the radio spectrum usages, by means of specialised databases which are constantly updated: National Plan of Frequency Allotments (NPFA) and the National Register of Frequency Assignments (NRFA);
e) coordination of the use of frequencies at a national level, with the governmental institutions in charge of managing certain portions of the radio spectrum according to the legal provisions in force, as well as at an international level, with the Communications Administrations of other countries, by applying the technical and administrative procedures provided in the international agreements to which Romania is party.
ANCOM ensures the detailed management of the “civil bands” (with non-governmental status of use according to the NTFA), while the governmental institutions in the National Defence System ensure the detailed management of the “governmental bands” (with governmental status of use according to the NTFA). ANCOM manages the frequency bands with shared governmental/non-governmental status of use, being assisted in this respect by the Interdepartmental Radiocommunication Commission, a consultative body chaired by MCTI.
4) monitoring the use of the radio spectrum with non-governmental status of use by:
a) a priori monitoring, which assists the activity of radio spectrum detailed management, by identifying unoccupied and interference-free radio frequencies in a given geographical area,
b) a posteriori monitoring, which assists the activity of checking the licence holders’ compliance with the obligations provided in the licences for the use of radio frequencies or in the broadcasting licences (and in the authorisations attached to the licences).
5) control the use of the radio spectrum with non-governmental status of use by:
a) surveillance and control of the licence holders’ compliance with the obligations provided in the licences for the use of frequencies or in the broadcasting licences (and in the authorisations attached to the licences),
b) surveillance and control of the licence holders’ compliance with the provisions of technical and administrative regulations in force in the radio spectrum (radiocommunication) field,
c)surveillance and control of compliance with the provisions of the regulations in force and of the international treaties and agreements on the use of the radio spectrum, to which Romania is party.
ANCOM also conducts activities that are ancillary to radio spectrum management, such as:
1) management of other limited resources, ancillary to radio spectrum management activities, by:
a) assigning callsigns allotted to Romania by the ITU, for the following radiocommunication services: maritime mobile service and maritime mobile-satellite service, aeronautical mobile service and aeronautical mobile-satellite service, on the inland waterways, as well as the amateur service,
b) assigning identification codes (alphanumerical identities) for certain types of radiocommunication stations operating in the following services: maritime mobile service and maritime mobile-satellite service, on the inland waterways (e.g.: MMSI, ATIS, etc),
2) testing and certification of the personnel operating radiocommunication stations in the following services: maritime mobile service and maritime mobile-satellite service, aeronautical mobile service and aeronautical mobile-satellite service, radiotelephone service on the inland waterways, land mobile service (only certain types of radiocommunication networks for this service).
3) testing and certification of the radioamateurs, as well as authorising the radiocommunication stations that they hold and/or use in the amateur service,
4) keeping account of the operations for the activities mentioned under the three items above.
5) publishing the register of the personnel operating radiocommunication stations and holding certificates issued by ANCOM and publishing the register of the authorised Romanian radioamateurs (callbook).
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