1. ICP-ANACOM's costing system was developed based on the Activity Based Costing (ABC) methodology. The system aims to identify the costs related to the development of the activities inherent to ICP-ANACOM's statutory responsibilities, responding to the provisions of paragraph 4 of article 105 of Law no. 5/2004 1.
Overall, two major cost groups were identified: regulation and spectrum management costs, and costs not related to the regulation activity; this latter group essentially consists of costs related to Advising and Representing the State. The distribution of costs is shown in Figure 1.
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1. Regulation and spectrum management costs |
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1.1 Administrative costs related to Electronic Communications 1.1.1 Administrative costs a) Declarations supporting rights b) Exercise activity of networks and services provider c) Allocation of rights to use frequencies d) Allocation of rights to use numbers 1.1.2 Frequency management costs 1.1.3 Numbering management costs 1.2 Costs of Postal regulation 1.3 Other regulation costs |
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2. Other costs |
2. Regulation and spectrum management costs represent the costs related to the activities of regulation, supervision, sectorial representation and cooperation, and they comprise the following costs:
a) Costs related to the electronic communications sector (scope of Law no. 5/2004).
i ) Electronic Communications Costs.
Costs related to the issue of declarations for the exercise of activity, allocation of rights of use of resources, and all associated activities of regulation, supervision, oversight and sectoral representation and cooperation.
ii ) Spectrum Management Costs.
Costs related to the set of activities carried out by ICP-ANACOM related to the planning, assignment, monitoring and oversight of the radio frequency spectrum.
iii ) Numbering Management Costs.
Costs related to the set of activities carried out by ICP-ANACOM related to the planning, assignment, monitoring and oversight of the numbering plan.
b) Costs related to the Postal Sector.
c) Other administrative costs related to the regulator's mission.
Costs incurred in the regulation of services not covered by Law no. 5/2004, such as audiotext services, ITED - Infra-estruturas de Telecomunicações em Edifícios (Telecommunication Infrastructure in Buildings), Information Society services, amateur service and personal radio service - citizen band (CB).
3. The other costs incurred by ICP-ANACOM which are not directly related to the regulation activity 2, include:
a) Contributions related to national and international bodies, such as 3:
i ) National bodies:
CPEC, ERC, Municipal Councils, FDTI, etc.
ii ) Non-national bodies:
ANRT - Morocco, ESA, CPLP, PALOP and Timor, PECO, other countries in the framework of cooperation, Satellite Organizations and URSI.
b) Costs related to Advising and Representing the State.
The costs resulting from ICP-ANACOM's participation in the sector as a technical representative of the Portuguese State (point r) of paragraph 1 of article 6 of its statutes, as approved in annex to Decree-Law no. 309/2001 of 7 December), which were not directly relevant to the regulation activity, were excluded. These costs are generally those associated with the following events and organizations:
i ) Preparation of and participation in meetings and conferences, as well as all exchange of information in this area.
ii ) Responding to requests of a different nature, such as requests for information, licensing requests, requests for expertise, and others.
iii ) Responding to requests for radio easements and protection of radiocommunication services.
iv ) Development of cooperation programmes.
v ) Monitoring of special projects (ESA)
National bodies:
Ministries, Regional Governments, Tribunal de Contas (Court of Auditors), CPEC, FDTI, and others.
Non-national bodies:
NATO, ITU (Council, Development Sector, Plenipotentiary Conference, World and Regional Radiocommunication Conferences, WTPF), Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT-Morocco), Satellite organizations, URSI, CPLP, PALOP and Timor, PECO and other countries in the context of cooperation agreements.
4. To identify the costs associated with electronic communications, they were divided so as to enable the determination of the costs related to each act defined in points a) to f) of paragraph 1 of article 105 of Lei das Comunicações Electrónicas (Electronic Communications Law). As such, the costs are divided using the following blocks:
a) Spectrum management (point f) of paragraph 1 of article 105);
b) Management of numbering (point e) of paragraph 1 of article 105); and
c) Regulatory activities - corresponding to the other administrative costs associated with points a) to d) of paragraph 1 of article 105 and the regulation of communications services that are not covered by Law no. 5/2004.
1 Where the amounts of fees referred to in points a) to e) of paragraph 1 are determined with regard to the administrative costs incurred in the management, control and enforcement of the general authorisation scheme and of rights of use and of specific obligations as referred to in article 28, which may include costs for international cooperation.
2 These costs are not considered to be relevant for ICP-ANACOM's regulation activity, according to the interpretation of Article 105(4) of Law 5/2004.
3 The amounts referring to contributions tend to decrease sharply, since a part of such costs resulted from Government decisions that have already been executed, or from ICP-ANACOM decisions which have not been renewed.
