Telecommunications and competition expert required
The Competition Directorate-General requires technical and legal services from an in-house expert in its telecommunications and postal unit. This unit deals with sector enquiries regarding leased lines, mobile roaming and local loop unbundling. As well as ex officio cases and development and monitoring of quasi-legislative measures as a follow up to the sector inquiries. In 1999, the Commission adopted a formal decision pursuant to Article 12 of regulation 17 opening formal inquiries into three specific topics which are relevant to the telecommunications area: (1) the availability of and conditions of access to leased lines; (2) the arrangements between mobile communications operators in the European Union which make it possible for an end-user to use their mobile handset outside the home territory of his habitual network operator (so-called roaming); (3) their unbundling of the last mile of the incumbent telecom operator's network, i.e. the line leading to the final subscriber for the benefit of new entrants to the liberalised telecommunications market. These three inquiries are still ongoing albeit in different stages of advancement. The work involved in the inquiries includes analysis of the massive amount of data collected, coordination with Member States' competition and regulatory authorities and general follow up of the investigative phase, including (public) hearings, ex officio procedures and possible quasi legislative measures. These tasks necessitate the assistance for the responsible unit, of an expert both in competition law and the telecommunications sector. The nature of the work requires the physical presence of the expert within DG competition's premises. For further information, please contact: European Commission Directorate-General Competition Information Society coordination unit DG COMP/C1 Mr Pierre Buigues Head of Division J70-2/271 rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200 B-1049 Brussels Fax +32-22969819 E-mail: Pierre.Buigues@cec.eu.int