CEPT PREPARATIONS FOR RRC06

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CEPT PREPARATIONS FOR RRC-06

• François RANCY, Vice-Chair
• CEPT WG RRC-06
• Dakar, 27 April 2005

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1. CEPT organisation

• 46 member countries
• information on CEPT/ECC to be found at
  www.ero.dk
• WG RRC-06 to prepare European positions for
  RRC-06
• Chair Jan Doeven (HOL)
• Vice chairs M. Johnson (G) and F. Rancy (F)
• PT1 (regulatory issues)
• PT2 (planning issues)
• Open to observers from other telecommunications
  organisations and industry
• Documents publicly available at www.ero.dk

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2. Main objectives of WG RRC-06

• In order to facilitate the work of the
  conference, encourage the submission to ITU of
  pre-coordinated requirements among CEPT
  countries
• a draft text for the new agreement and the
  agreements for the revision of ST61 and GE89
• Develop positions for
• IPG,
• RPG and
• ITU-R meetings (6E, SG6)
• develop European Common Proposals (ECP) for
  RRC-06, RRC-ST61 and RRC-GE89
• develop Briefs for CEPT members on issues
  relevant to RRC-06, RRC-ST61 and RRC-GE89

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3. Interest in digital broadcasting in Europe

• T-DAB and DVB-T implementation
• (see maps and information on http//www.ero.dk )
• Relevant actions/communications form EC
• RSPG opinion for switch-over (digital dividend)
• EC communication on switch-over

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4. Policy items

• Flexibility in the plan to allow for future
  technological and commercial developments
• Ensuring maximum spectrum efficiency, by not
  taking into account existing and planned analogue
  assignments in the planning process, recognising
  that this does not affect the protection to
  analogue during the transition period
• Coordination with other regional organisations
• Opportunities to realise digital dividend
• Premature to make decision regarding IMT-2000 in
  Band IV/V until outcome of RRC-06 is known
• Duration of transition period
• Majority of CEPT countries expressed initial
  preference for option 1 (not later than 2015) and
  none for option 2 (between 2028 and 2038). Some
  cannot express yet an opinion
• Regulatory text needed for analogue stations
  operating after transition period

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5. Pre-coordination activities
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6. Preparation of PXT activities

• ERO
• Participation in PXT on behalf of CEPT
• Preparation in a subgroup of PT2 (Project Team 2
  Sub PXT - Intersessional Planning)
• Contributions to PXT
• Work on software

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7. Preparation of draft ECPs

• Overall CEPT Objectives for RRC-06
• Planning Principles
• Technical Annexes to the Agreement
• Annex 1 to the Plan - Content and layout of
  frequency plans
• Annex 2 to the Plan - Technical criteria
• Annex 3 to the Plan - Basic characteristics to be
  submitted for modifications to the Plan in
  accordance with Article 4 of the Agreement
• Annex 4 to the Plan - Limits for determining when
  agreement with another administration is required
• Annex 5 to the Plan - Additional technical
  criteria for coordination
• Administrative declarations for pre-coordinated
  requirements

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8. Other important issues

• Administrative declarations resulting from
  negotiations before and during RRC-06 and
  treatment of it in planning process
• Incorporation of pre-coordinated stations into
  account in the planning process
• Optimising T-DAB planning, compared to CEPT
  Arrangement WI95
• Indoor reception
• Additional networks
• Sharing digital broadcasting with other services
  in some countries
• In a considerable number of cases existing
  primary other services need not to be taken into
  account in the planning process, because these
  other services will be phased out in the coming
  years.

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9. Organisation of RRC-06

• CEPT agrees to conference structure as proposed
  by Informal Group, consisting of representatives
  from the regional telecommunication organisations
  in the planning area
• CEPT is in favour of a pragmatic split of the
  planning area during the Conference, as proposed
  by IPG-SG
• Planning process (compatibility analysis ad
  synthesis process) should be done for whole area.