1. ICP-ANACOM's costing system was developed based on the ABC method and aims to identify the costs related to the development of the activities inherent to its statutory assignments, as well as to meet the provision in paragraph 4 of article 105 of Law No 5/2004, of 10 February1.
Overall, two major cost groups were identified: regulation and spectrum management costs, and costs not related to the regulation activity, the latter essentially including the costs related to the advisory and State representation activity. The breakdown 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 of the activity of electronic communications networks and services provider c) Allocation of rights of use for frequencies d) Allocation of rights of use for 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 costs related to the activities of regulation, supervision, rule-making, sector representation and cooperation, and 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, rule-making, sector 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. Other costs incurred by ICP-ANACOM which are not directly related to the regulatory activity2, include:
a) Contributions related to national and international bodies, such as3:
i) National bodies:
CPEC, 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 Statutes 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, Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT-Morocco), Satellite organizations, URSI, CPLP, PALOP and Timor, PECO and other countries in the scope of cooperation.
4. To identify costs associated with electronic communications, costs will now be broken down so as to enable the determination of costs related to each action defined in points a) to f) of paragraph 1 of article 105 of the Electronic Communications Law. Thus, costs are broken down according to the following blocs:
a) Spectrum management (point f) of paragraph 1 of article 105);
b) Numbering management (point e) of paragraph 1 of article 105); and
c) Regulation activities - corresponding to the remaining administrative costs related to paragraph 1 a) to d) of article 105 and to the regulation of communications services that are not covered by Law number 5/2004.
1 Where the amount of fees referred to in points a) to e) of its paragraph 1 is 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 international cooperation costs, among others.
2 These costs are not considered to be relevant for ICP-ANACOM's regulation activity, according to the interpretation of paragraph 4 of article 105 of Law 5/2004.
3 The amounts referring to contributions and levy costs tend to decrease sharply, since part of them resulted from Government decisions that were already carried out, or from ICP-ANACOM decisions that were not renewed.
