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Updated: July 23, 2012 (Initial publication: July 16, 2012)

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On July 12, 2012, the European commissioner Neelie Kroes announced that she will not act to lower prices of optic fiber.

The optic fiber is a very difficult issue for regulators: they want its deployment, for the good of consumers, but they are not willing to pay much more for this and the operators are not prepared to invest without profitability. Incentives are insufficient and uncertainties, major flaw of the regulation, are very large. This is why the European Commissioner in charge of digital, Mrs. Neelie Kroes, announced that on the one hand that the system would now stable for regulation of the optic fiber and that on the other hand there is no more tendency of the regulator to lower the price of access to cost method which discourage operators to invest.

Updated: July 17, 2012 (Initial publication: July 10, 2012)

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The Secretary of State for Culture and the Media in the UK written on June 18, 2012 to the Ofcom (British Office of Communication), in response to its report on pluralism.

The regulator of telecommunications and media in United Kingdom (Ofcom) published on, June 6, 2012 a report to measure media pluralism. In response, the State Secretary Jeremy Hunt writes on June 18 letter to the chairman of Ofcom, Colette Bow, for him make comments, astonishments, suggestions and remind him of the prerogatives of the Secretary of State in the matter. The set is made with the friendliness that fits between friends that are written and signed by their first names, formulas are in conditional tense in being enveloped in a respectful classicism, which is the form taken by the confrontation between the executive and the regulator. Tension is always high, whatever form it takes, when it comes to media.

Updated: May 9, 2012 (Initial publication: April 20, 2012)

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The Algerian Telecommunications Regulator prohibits promotional offers for prepaid contracts of subscriptions including mobile terminal

The Algerian population is heavily access the mobile phone. Operators had designed special offers, including the terminal itself and a "pre-paid" said contract, the subscriber having a consumption credit, thereby decreasing by the use. The Algerian Telecommunications regulator, by a decision of March, 7 2012, has purely and simply prohibits this type of offer, while she oversees other type of promotional offers. This prohibition is criticized in that it breaks the dynamics of the market, 95% of the customers do not have the opportunity to access to another service than prepaid subscription and being excluded from access to the mobile terminals. It is advocated by others, that only subscriptions giving rise to payment after the use correspond to a mature market, with creditworthy customers and more complex services. The regulator did not intend to speak on this issue.

Updated: Sept. 10, 2012 (Initial publication: May 31, 2012)

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The European Commission approved on May 16, 2012 a merger control through a takeover by three powerful gas companies of an Angolan company, become a joint-venture, in the area of liquefied natural gas in Angola, because the access of the third-party to the system of regasification is preserved.

Updated: May 9, 2012 (Initial publication: May 3, 2012)

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The UK telecommunications regulatory authority (Ofcom) intends to withdraw to BskyB its broadcasting licence due to the possible illegal phone tapping.

The press and television Murdoch group is sued for getting information in an illicit manner, by violating the privacy of personalities, having established connections within the police in order to be informed, etc. Concerning, the television media, activity can be practised because of the prior allocation of a broadcasting license by the regulator. However, the British regulator Ofcom, said April 24, 2012 that he was studying the question of whether the operator could maintain its license in view of the findings made during the parliamentary investigation establishing phone tapping fixed by it.

Updated: Sept. 25, 2012 (Initial publication: March 22, 2010)

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II-6.7 : The Ordinance of 21 January 2010 merges the regulatory authorities for the banking and insurance sectors.

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Ordinance n° 2010-76 of 21 January 2010 establishes a new independent administrative authority designated as the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel (Prudential Control Authority), resulting from the merger of the approval and monitoring authorities of the banking and insurance sectors.

Updated: June 25, 2012 (Initial publication: June 15, 2012)

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In Morocco, the Bill creating the "Autorité de Contrôle des Assurances et de la Prévoyance Sociale - ACAPS" (Supervisory Authority of Insurance and Social Welfare) was submitted to the Council of Ministers.

In Morocco, after months of adjustments to bring together stakeholders, a draft law has been prepared and introduced in the Council of Ministers the end of May 2012. The Département des assurances du ministère (Insurance Department) will then give way to an independent regulator, the Autorité de Contrôle des Assurances et de la Prévoyance Sociale - ACAPS (Supervisory Authority of Insurance and Social Welfare). Independent of the Executive, the regulator is financed by a tax on insurers and the administrative fines which it imposes. It is composed of two bodies. The first determines the general policy of the Authority, fixes the financial contribution due from insurers, approves staff plan, grants licences to insurers. The second, sets up by the President, draws up the annual budget, and adopts the agenda of the meetings and the decisions of sanctions. The Board of discipline certainly presided by a magistrate of the Cour de cassation (Civil Supreme Court), only provides an advisory opinion to the President of the Authority on proposed sanctions.

Updated: May 6, 2010 (Initial publication: April 12, 2010)

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II-6.13 : Three Ministerial Orders nominate the President, members, and General Secretary of the new "Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel - ACP (Prudential Control Authority)

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Two Ministerial Orders of 5 March 2010 and a Ministerial Order of 8 March 2010 nominate the members of the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel (Prudential Control Authority), created by the Ordinance of 21 January 2010. Besides the Presidency, which will be exercised by Christian Noyer, governor of the Banque de France, the composition reveals the prevalence of banking regulators, which is a pragmatic consequence of the fact that insurers propose products equivalent in risk to those proposed by banks.

Updated: Sept. 10, 2012 (Initial publication: June 18, 2012)

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In France, The "Commission de Régulation de l'Energie - CRE" (French Energy Regulatory Authority) launched a consultation on the use of public electricity network.

Updated: May 29, 2012 (Initial publication: May 18, 2012)

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A study commissioned by the British Regulatory of Healthcare related to a scandal such as PIP implants was published on May 14, 2012

In the United Kingdom, the Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, by noting the wrongdoing of the scandal of the Breast implants PIP and the clumsy way in which this type of scandal, alarming the population, had been resolved by health authorities, has commissioned a study in January 2012 to analyse this crisis and learn from it behavior lessons for similar crises. On May 14, 2012, the report was published. This report advised the regulator, when it is faced with this type of crisis, to expand its sources of medical information before making provisions, that it didn't do sufficiently. The regulator must also communicate as much as possible with the victims on the one hand (first circle) and the public (second circle) to give information, reassure and encourage good medical behavior.
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