Can the Framework Review proposals be approved in time?

Ministers say the Commission's plans will need to be debated throughout the next two Presidencies, making it a very tight timetable to achieve agreement before the 2009 European elections.

When the European Commission presented its proposals on the review of the regulatory framework for electronic communications and services to the Council of the European Union on November 29, it was soon apparent that telecoms ministers had the same reservations as earlier expressed by many national regulators.

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