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Romania: Telecommunications Regulator Disbanded Print E-mail
Monday, 22 September 2008

The Romanian Government has disbanded telecommunications regulator ANRCTI and created a new regulatory agency to monitor the telecommunications sector. The change comes on the heels of a legal dispute between the former head of the regulator and the Prime Minister.

The emergency declaration dissolving ANRCTI appears to make it impossible for the former ANRCTI director Dan Georgescu to rejoin the regulator, after a court ruled he should be reinstated. Georgescu won a court case in which he sought to regain his position with the regulator after he was fired in August. In addition, a second court ruled that Georgescu’s replacement, Liviu Nistoran, could not become the head of ANRCTI. Following the shut-down of ANRCTI, Nistoran was re-confirmed as the head of the new regulator, the ANC, by the Prime Minister, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.

EU telecommunications Commissioner, Viviane Reding has written to the Romanian Minister of Communications, Karoly Borbely expressing concerns about the restructuring of the regulator and seeking an explanation for the firing of Georgescu. The Minister has until the September 26 to respond to the Commission.

Source: Cellular-News- WDR/Intelecon Regulatory News.