TELECOMMUNICATIONS : MOBILE SATELLITE SERVICES: EP INSISTS ON ITS ROLE.

Tech Europe, January, 2008

While calling on the EU to quicken its pace in the adoption of the project on mobile satellite services (2GHz band, so-called S band'), the European Parliament wants to have input during the Community selection of candidates for radio frequencies reserved for these services. "There are holes in the current text," stressed the rapporteur, Fiona Hall (ALDE, UK), on 19 December in the Industry Committee.

Her idea is to replace the former comitology procedure, which the project is based on, by the new procedure "with scrutiny rights," which gives more power to MEPs. That would be a "catastrophe," according to satellite operators and their terrestrial partners, because, in this case, the legal investigation period in the EP can take from one to three months. "The...

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