National telecom regulators sit together so a subscriber who crosses a border, changes provider, or buys wholesale access meets one set of expectations. The group publishes guidelines that national authorities use when they apply the European Electronic Communications Code and the open-internet regulation.
Who Sits at the Table
- Members: The head of each European Union national regulatory authority, with participating authorities from the European Economic Area.
- Office: A small support office in Riga prepares the annual work programme, public consultations, and the published guidelines.
- Opinions: The group advises the European Commission and lines up national decisions so the same wholesale or consumer question is not answered 27 different ways.
What the Guidelines Cover
- Open internet: How national authorities read the ban on blocking and throttling, and when a specialized service may be treated differently from general internet access. That reading is what an ISP has to follow in each member state.
- Very high capacity networks: Thresholds for bandwidth, latency, and reliability that decide whether a network counts as a VHCN.
- Roaming and numbering: Common positions on wholesale roaming and on telephone numbers used across borders.
How a Guideline Becomes Practice
Each year the group adopts a work programme, consults in public, and publishes the final text. The national authority still issues the binding decision in its own country. The guideline is the shared reading those decisions are expected to follow.
| Topic | What the Text Is For |
| Open internet | How access providers treat traffic |
| Very high capacity networks | Which networks count as capable of gigabit-class service |
| Roaming | Wholesale and retail conditions when a subscriber travels |
| Numbering | Cross-border use of telephone numbers |