Start of Sending Conditions for Access on Public Property to ANCOM
07.08.2013
According to Law no.154/2012 on the regime of electronic communications networks infrastructure, public companies and public institutions, including the authorities of the central or local public administrations, as well as any other entities exercising the right of administration over the real estate within the public property of the state or of the administrative-territorial units, have the obligation to establish and publish the access conditions within 30 days from the date of receiving the first access request or within 60 days from the entry into force of the Infrastructure Law, for the access works performed or for the access requests submitted before the entry into force of the abovementioned act. A copy of these access conditions must be sent to ANCOM as soon as possible.
With a view to consolidating the documents regarding the conditions for access on public property, ANCOM created and published an online application on its website, as provided by the Infrastructure Law. The application allows interrogating a database, which is to be permanently completed and updated, as the public entities that exercise the administration right over the buildings in the public property of the state send copies of the documents containing the conditions for access. The application is available here, the database already containing 11 documents.
The application enables the users to search information regarding the conditions for access on public property by several criteria, such as: the infrastructure element to which access is offered (e.g. pillar, land), the type of public entity granting the right of access (for example, local or county council), as well as the locality where access is granted.
”The database containing the conditions for access on public property will facilitate the development of networks on the infrastructure elements owned by the state, under transparency, objectivity and non-discrimination terms. The conditions offered to the first communications provider requesting access on a public property must be offered to all the providers, if the request refers to the installation of similar network elements and associated facilities on the same property. For the database to include all this information, we initiated a dialogue with the local and central public authorities, one of the most important partners of ANCOM in the implementation of this law”, the ANCOM president, Catalin Marinescu, declared.
Given the major changes this law brings in respect of the access on properties and of the shared use of infrastructure, ANCOM launched an ample information campaign. As part of this campaign, the Authority representatives met representatives of a series of local public entities throughout the country, so that the latter could be better informed and could find details on the actual issues related to the implementation of this normative act, while offering the Authority information on the specifics of implementing this law on the local level.
Moreover, in order to provide information for the interested persons, the Authority created a dedicated section on its internet website - Infrastructure Law - which structures the legal provisions by target public: electronic communications network providers, public authorities, owners/owners’ associations, and infrastructure holders.
