General Introduction to Public Consultations

In compliance with Article 4(5) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1971 , where appropriate, BEREC shall consult interested parties before adopting opinions, regulatory best practices or reports and give them the opportunity to send their comments on the draft documents within a reasonable period of time.

BEREC also has an obligation to make the results of each consultation procedure publicly available while taking into account any confidentiality-related issues.

With a view to streamlining the whole process for consulting interested parties on any draft BEREC documents and in order to increase the transparency of its procedure, the Board of Regulators adopted a decision defining BEREC procedures for holding public consultations (Decision BoR (10) 27).

On topics of significant interest, BEREC may decide also to organise a public hearing.

The public consultations are organised in compliance with the following procedure: