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CEPT (Conference of European Post and Telecommunications) and ITU (International Telecommunication Union) Processes |
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For a particular World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) (World Radion Conference), simultaneous preparatory activities take place along several paths: ITU-R (Administration and Regulatory) ITU SG/CPM (Technical), CEPT (European proposals), national proposal preparations, and in the aeronautical community, during the nominal 2 years between Conferences. The programme is geared to the calendar of events decided by the ITU components, i.e. the dates for the CPM and the WRC. The interrelationships between these is illustrated in Fig 1.
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Process to CEPT and ITU The Agenda for a WRC is agreed in its first draft form four years in advance and embodied in a Resolution. The final Agenda is approved two years in advance, embodied in a further Resolution, and finally approved at the ITU Administrative Council meeting in the spring of the following year. Proposals may be submitted at any time, but first appearance is usually about 3 months before, becoming an avalanche in the last 3 months. National preparations start as soon as the previous Conference ends, Regional a little later, and inter-Regional discussions at about 12 months prior to the Conference.
The technical input is the Conference Preparatory Meeting Report (CPM Report), co-ordinated and assembled by an appointed CPM Team, using technical inputs from the Study Groups. The basis of their selection is in the Resolutions calling for study agreed at the WRC previously. Their co-ordinated draft report is discussed and approved at the CPM, normally held about 6 months prior to the Conference, after which it is circulated to administrations, and presented to the Conference.
Study Group Recommendations are approved at the meetings of the Radiocommunications Assembly ( the deliberative ITU body for technical matters), held every year normally. WRC only consider ITU-R Recommendations which have received this approval.
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Relation between CEPT and ITU |
The Conference Preparatory Group (CPG) reports to the European Radiocommunications Committee (ERC) of CEPT, acting as a co-ordination and finalization group for European Common Proposals (ECP). The CPG is provided as necessary with material from the regulatory and technical components of the ERC machinery. CPG meetings commence immediately after the previous WRC, and up to 8 meetings may be held in the lead up to the Conference.
The CEPT has no formally constituted membership of ITU in its own right, and merely acts as the agent for its members in submitting proposals on their behalf. A minimum of 50 per cent support is necessary for an ECP, and the names of the supporting administrations appear on the proposal document presented to ITU. At the conference, administrations may alter their position by internal mutual agreement made through off line CEPT discussions held at the Conference.
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Aeronautical Preparations |
| ICAO and Eurocontrol have recognised the need for a preparation process synchronised to the WRC. The completed ICAO process is targeted to be complete some 6 months prior to Conference. The ICAO Position is sent to States by State Letter for the use of the national aviation authorities in their national preparations. The ICAO position is also input to the WRC as an Information Paper (ICAO can not make proposals). |
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Last validation: 22/06/2005
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