Rates

Operators and holders of rights of use of the public radio domain or numbering resources will be subject to the payment of the fees established in the legal system.

These fees shall be intended to:

• To cover the administrative costs caused by the regulatory work relating to the preparation and implementation of secondary Community law and administrative acts, such as those relating to interconnection and access.
• Those that cause the management, control and execution of the regime established in the LGT.
• Those that cause the management, control and execution of the rights of occupation of the public domain, the rights of use of the public radio domain and numbering.
• The management of notifications regulated in Article 6 of the LGT.
• The costs of international cooperation, harmonization and standardization and market analysis.

Without prejudice to paragraph 2, the charges established for the use of the public radio domain, the numbering and the public domain necessary for the installation of electronic communications networks shall be aimed at ensuring the optimum use of these resources, taking into account the value of the good to be used and its scarcity. They must also promote compliance with the objectives and principles established in Article 3 of the LGT, in the terms established by the regulations.

The charges referred to in the preceding paragraphs shall be imposed in an objective, transparent and proportionate manner, so as to minimise the additional administrative costs and the burdens arising from them.

Telecommunications charges are regulated in Annex I of the General Telecommunications Act. In addition, the Seventh Transitional Provision of the LGT provides for the amounts to be applied until such time as the Law on General State Budgets establishes the amounts of fees provided for in paragraph 4 of Annex I, Fees in the field of telecommunications.