Application Form for TAIEX Study Visit

Application form for TAIEX Study Visit

N.B.: only type-written applications will be accepted
Beneficiary: / TURKEY
Date of submission: / 20.03.2006
Objective of the study visit:
To obtain information on the implementation of 2002/19/EC and 2887/2000/EC, specifically focusing on collocation and facility sharing which are indispensable parts of effective implementation of local loop unbundling and interconnection. (This study visit is a complementary mission of the study visit organised in UK on 3-5 October 2005.)

Please complete and return to:

European Commission

Institution Building unit (TAIEX)

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1. Details of the applicant acting as main co-ordinator for the execution of Study visit
Title (Mr., Mrs.) :[1] / MR.
First Name: / TOLGA
Surname: / KILIC
Ministry or Institution: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
Department: / ACCESS AND INTERCONNECTION GROUP
Function: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPERT
Office address (street/number/office number): / YESILIRMAK S. NO: 16 DEMİRTEPE
Post code: / 06430
City: / ANKARA
Office Tel: / +90 312 550 53 76
Office Fax: / +90 312 550 50 36
Email: /
Will also participate to the expert mission? / Yes No
2. Details of the person(s) participating to the Study visit
a)
Title (Mr., Mrs.) : / MR.
First Name: / YUSUF
Surname: / YILDIRIM
Ministry or Institution: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
Department: / ACCESS AND INTERCONNECTION GROUP
Function: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT EXPERT
Office address (street/number/office number): / YESILIRMAK S. NO: 16 DEMIRTEPE
Post code: / 06430
City: / ANKARA
Office Tel: / +90 312 550 53 76
Office Fax: / +90 312 550 50 36
E-Mail: /
b)
Title (Mr., Mrs.) : / MR.
First Name: / ŞABAN
Surname: / TAŞKIN
Ministry or Institution: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
Department: / ACCESS AND INTERCONNECTION GROUP
Function: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPERT
Office address (street/number/office number): / YESILIRMAK S. NO: 16 DEMIRTEPE
Post code: / 06430
City: / ANKARA
Office Tel: / +90 312 550 52 75
Office Fax: / +90 312 550 50 36
E-Mail: /
c)
Title (Mr., Mrs.) : / MR.
First Name: / HAYRETTIN
Surname: / ISIK
Ministry or Institution: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
Department: / ACCESS AND INTERCONNECTION GROUP
Function: / TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT EXPERT
Office address (street/number/office number): / YESILIRMAK S. NO: 16 DEMIRTEPE
Post code: / 06430
City: / ANKARA
Office Tel: / +90 312 550 52 75
Office Fax: / +90 312 550 50 36
E-Mail: /
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3. Organisation that you wish to visit :
(this information is mandatory for applicants from beneficiary Member States)
Preferred Country (choice cannot always be guaranteed) / FRANCE
Hosting Member State Authority/Institution (if known) / ARCEP (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes)

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Name(s) of individual(s) from whom you / wish to receive expertise (if known)

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Title: / MS.
First Name: / ANNE
Surname: / LENFANT
Ministry or Institution: / ARCEP
Department: / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Function: / DEPARTMENT HEAD
Office address (street/number/office number) / 7, Square Max Hymans. P.O.Box: 75730
Post code: / Paris Cedex 15
City: / PARIS
Office Tel: / 33-1-40477160
Office Fax: / 33-1-40477189
E-mail: /
Have you had previous contact with your selected host Institution/Organisation/Expert? Yes No
4. Details of the required study visit:
a) EU legislation concerned (please give reference to regulations, directives etc.) and chapter of the Acquis and details of provisions for discussion
CELEX N°/Natural number: / 1. 32002L0019, 2. 32000R2887 (2887/2000)
Type of legislation: / 1. Directive, 2. Regulation
Screening chapter: / Information Society and Media
b) What will the task of the expert concern? / Legislation Implementation Institutional development
Is there any planned or currently running PHARE/CARDS/TWINNING project that is dealing with the issues covered by the request? Yes No
If yes, please indicate details:
If the task of the expert concerns legislation:
Do you already have draft legislation you wish to discuss? Yes No
Please give details of the stage of preparation of the legislation (e.g. not yet sent to Parliament):
Please outline the timetable for the adoption of the legislation:
A copy of the draft legislation in your own language and in English or French should be made available to TAIEX before the Study visit can take place.
If the task of the expert concerns implementation:
Please list in detail the issues you would like to discuss with the visiting expert, such as implementing regulations, infrastructure, strategies, training and any other elements of relevance:
The implementation of collocation and facility sharing in terms of:
Technical Solutions
Pricing
Dispute resolution
Detailed Principles and Procedures
5. Other background information relating to the current situation:
Please give an outline of your current situation concerning the sector of the acquis communautaire indicated and indicate any recent developments that may be relevant in this regard:
General:
With nearly 8 billion Euros, the Turkish telecommunications market keeps the second position compared to the new members joined EU in May 2004.
Fixed telecommunications market in Turkey has been fully-liberalized by January 1st, 2004. Türk Telekom, the incumbent operator, is no more the monopoly provider of telecommunications services in legal terms and 55 percent of the company has been recently privatised in November 2005.
The Telecommunications Authority (TA), being established with administrative and financial autonomy under the Telecommunications Law of 2000 (Law No. 4502), is responsible for all regulatory functions in both telecommunications and radiocommunications sectors except broadcast licensing and content regulation. The Amending Law to the Telecommunications Law, passed in May 2001 has broadened the responsibilities of the Telecommunication Authority. Under the previous law the Ministry of Transportation was entitled to grant licenses and general authorizations or conclude concession agreements with private companies for value-added telecommunications services. These responsibilities were transferred to the Telecommunication Authority in May 2001 pursuant to the amendments to the Telecommunications Law. According to the new structure, the Ministry of Transport retains its macro-level policy making role while all regulatory functions are vested at TA.
TA has already issued its regulations on tariffs, access and interconnection, national roaming and designation of SMP operators, authorisation, local loop unbundling, collocation and facility sharing, cost accounting and accounting separation, consumer rights, personal data protection and privacy.
Studies towards achieving full compliance with the acquis in telecommunications have been carried out by TA. Despite considerable progress, further efforts by the Turkish authorities are essential to bring telecommunications regulatory framework fully in line with the acquis, including certain amendments in the current Telecommunications Law and issuance of a number of regulations on certain key subjects such as universal service. Strengthening the administrative capacity of the TA is also of prime importance to ensure its proper functioning.
Collocation and Facility Sharing, Local Loop Unbundling:
The milestone for the access and interconnection to the existing network of Türk Telekom is the Ordinance published in May 2003 as a secondary legislation. The Ordinance brings out the conditions introduced by the new regulatory framework of EU to Turkish telecommunications market. Due to the long-term monopoly of Türk Telekom, the proper implementation of the Ordinance can be accepted to be in the take-off phase in 2005.
The communiqué on collocation and facility sharing has been published in December 2003 in order to define the detailed principles and procedures for the provision of collocation and facility sharing. After the authorisation for long distance voice telephony services, the collocation issue has been brought to TA's agenda for interconnection of alternative operators. Although temporary solutions are in place, the issue needs to be handled in detail especially in terms of pricing and introduction of specific collocation solutions for different services.
The local loop unbundling (LLU) Communiqué has been published in the extent of Access and Interconnection Ordinance. Its main purpose is the efficient use existing access network of Türk Telekom in order to increase the broadband penetration by deployment of DSL technology on copper loops and in addition, to open up the market of voice telephony to competitors. The Communiqué on LLU has been published in July 2004 and been enacted by July 2005.
After the enactment of the Communiqué, the first phase of the implementation has been the preparation of the draft reference unbundling offer by Türk Telekom. After the submission of the RUO, the Access and Interconnection Group within the Authority is now in charge of evaluation in administrative, technical and financial terms and will probably make certain amendments before approval. Based on the EU experience, it is expected that the collocation and facility sharing issues will be the most critical part on the regulatory side and hence the Authority gives importance to gathering Member States’ experience on the solutions developed in near past.
6. Draft programme for the study visit:
Day 1: Morning Session
Study visit to ARCEP (or the relevant National Regulatory Authority)
- General information on the legislation and implementation process up to date
- Collocation in reference interconnection and unbundling offers
- Facility sharing and other relevant supplementary services
- Pricing
- Dispute resolution (Case study if available)
- The review of the relevant Turkish legislation
- The suggestions for Turkey for further legislations and the implementation
Day 1: Afternoon Session
Study visit to alternative operators (to be determined in coordination with ARCEP)
- General introduction of the services using collocation and facility sharing
- The procedures to be followed to access the incumbent's services
- The relations with the incumbents and other access seekers (problems, solutions etc.)
Day 2: Study visit to France Telecom (or the relevant incumbent operator)
Morning Session
- General introduction of France Telecom wholesale services (subject to collocation and facility sharing)
- The work achieved by France Telecom for the provision of collocation services
- Technical problems on implementation of collocation and facility sharing
- The relations with the access seekers (problems, solutions etc.)
Afternoon Session
- Study visit to an exchange site at which different types of collocation for LLU (and/or similar services) are available.
Day 3 Discussion and Conclusion (ARCEP)
Morning Session
- Questions and Answers Session about all parts of the study visit
- Evaluation of the study visit
7. Further details:
Preferred date of the mission (indicate week number and proposed duration of the visit):
Year: / 2006
Calendar week: / 22
Duration (days): / 3
Language knowledge (please state the language(s) and indicate your level of competence)
1st language: English / Very Good Good Fair Poor
2nd language: Other please specify / Very Good Good Fair Poor
3rd language: Other please specify / Very Good Good Fair Poor
8. Logistic details
We would like to travel by: Plane Train Other Please select one option
We would like TAIEX to book a hotel: : Yes No
9. Authorisation from Hierarchy (Head of EU integration department or technical dept.)
Title: / MR.
First name: / O. FARUK
Surname: / KOCAK
Function: / HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & EU COORDINATION DEPARTMENT
Office Tel.: / +90 312 550 51 25
Office Fax: / +90 312 550 51 55
E-mail: /
Date of consultation:
Supporting comments:
Signature (if applicable):
Please note: The information contained in this form will be made available
on-line to the Mission and the Embassy of your country in Brussels.
All applications received directly from the Western Balkans will be forwarded
to the EU Delegation in the country concerned, and in the case of Kosovo to the EC-Liaison Office, for a preliminary evaluation.

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