Summary
The European Union (EU) has changed the way it regulates the telecommunications sector to take better account of an increasingly competitive and technologically convergent market. The New Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications (NRF) is a package of EU Directives that aims to bring legal certainty and a harmonized approach across the EU’s 25 Member States. It covers all electronic communications networks and services, but not the content provided through and over them. This report looks at the why the rules have been updated, sets out the different elements of NRF, and describes how the system is designed to work.