> Monitoring the telecommunications services sector and related aspects in South East Europe

This has been a three-year project that started in 2005 to assist the European Commission in monitoring progress the South East European countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia (including Kosovo), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey) toward integration of the EU internal market for telecommunications services. The project has produced four nine-monthly country comparative reports intended to:

• provide important benchmark information for South East European country authorities, to enable better-informed policy development decisions;

• provide many key market and regulatory indicators for potential investors.

The reports include information on: overall macroeconomic situation and overview of the electronic communications market, legal and institutional framework, market access conditions, competitive safeguards, universal service, retail and wholesale tariffs, Internet and broadband penetration.

• Report 4 Country Comparative Report (November 2007)

• Report 3 Country Comparative Report (March 2007)

• Report 2 Country Comparative Report (June 26, 2006)

• Report 1 Country Comparative Report (August 29, 2005)

Project website (limited access)