MEPs vote to give themselves more power over spectrum policy

The European Parliament's Industry Committee has voted to give MEPs the ability to veto the Commission's power to identify bands for harmonisation, secondary trading or service neutrality.

The European Commission will be pleased to see that the aspect of the Committee's draft proposals which concerned them the most – the abolition of the Radio Spectrum Decision – does not appear in the final text agreed in Strasbourg on July 7. However, there are other measures which will give MEPs considerably more power over spectrum policy. Overall the parliament has shown itself to be in the middle of the EU spectrum policy debate: more forward-thinking than the ministers in the European Council but not as radical as the Commission.

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