"When it comes to Europe's emergency number 112," said EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding, " member states are obliged to ensure that it is fully functional and available. It is unfortunate that several countries are currently putting their own citizens and citizens from other EU countries traveling to their country at risk as they have failed to ensure that caller location information for emergency calls is fully available. I urge these member states to act now to enhance the safety of EU citizens. We are also referring Estonia to the European Court, since it has failed to carry out its market analysis on time. I urge Estonia to speed up what is a fundamental requirement of EU telecom rules, and without which effective competition and consumers rights will suffer."
The Commission is opening a new case against Cyprus and is sending it a letter of formal notice concerning rights of way for mobile networks.
The Commission has closed cases against Finland and Luxembourg. The Finnish case concerns designating the universal service provider, while the Luxembourg case concerns cost accounting.
The Commission has also closed two non-compliance cases against Germany concerning the Universal Service Directive and the e-Privacy Directive following legislative amendments which address the Commission's concerns.
