WRC-07 - ERO report on third week

The European Radiocommunications Office (ERO) has published a report on the third week of the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-07).

Agenda Item 1.13 deals with the HF bands between 4 MHz and 10 MHz, the ERO report says:

During the third week of the Conference it was expected to have a decision on the YES or NO for additional broadcasting in the range 4-10 MHz.

With a lot of regret that it became a NO for the so much needed additional spectrum for the broadcasters.

During formal and informal meetings a lot of pressure was put on CEPT, as CEPT was the only regional organisation who had prepared proposals for additional spectrum.

During the Conference, CEPT has tried to find a compromise by even lowering the amount from 350 to 200 kHz. And even during the last informal meeting, one country, from outside CEPT, proposed 100 kHz as a compromise, but even that was not acceptable for all the others.

Via internal CEPT meetings it was decided to state during the Committee 4 meeting that CEPT was not willing to compromise to a NOC nor to withdraw its proposals as requested and suggested by the other regional organisations, but to agree with a lot of reluctance to the option having no additional spectrum for broadcasting during this Conference in order to let the Conference to progress. During the Plenary meeting, also United Kingdom has made a statement in the same direction. After this statement, the other 1.13 related issues were agreed in a speedy manner.

As a major part of Appendix could not be touched as advised by the ITU Head of the Legal Department, a revised version of Resolution 351 was developed for a stand-alone agenda item for the WRC-11 Conference. Also it was concluded that studies should continue and a new resolution was developed for the continuation of studies and collecting data.

On the radio amateur matters, CEPT had proposed, via a footnote, that administrations may allow radio amateur service to use, on a secondary basis and with power restrictions, part of the lower 5 MHz band. Unfortunately even that proposal was not supported. As the footnote for CEPT was not the most important issue for AI 1.13, CEPT agreed to the majority view for no change in Article 5 of Radio Regulations.

It has to be concluded that CEPT has lost the battle on this agenda item, although the developed proposals were correct, feasible and advantageous for all services.

Other agenda items also reference allocations used by the Amateur Radio and Amateur Satellite services:

Agenda Item 1.15 concerns an Amateur secondary allocation at 135.7-137.8 kHz”, ERO say

COM 4 has finalised its work on agenda item 1.15. Therefore, there is nothing to report on this item for the third week.

On Agenda Item 1.12 they say

An agreement has been reached on RNSS in the bands 1 215-1 300 MHz and 1 559-1 610 MHz : MOD 5.328B and MOD 5.329A

Agenda Item 1.4 relates to future development of IMT-2000, the report says

Modifications to the table of frequency allocations and related Resolutions were developed for all remaining candidate bands (450-470 MHz, 470-862 MHz, 2300-2400 MHz and 3400-4200 MHz).

The full report can be downloaded from
http://www.ero.dk/83DD42B0-83DE-4981-81F0-
9F882451BC7F?frames=no&

For other WRC-07 related documents on the ERO website follow these steps:
1. Go to the ERO home page http://www.ero.dk/
2. Under “ECC Activities” select “Meeting Documents”
3. In “Select Group:” choose “Conference Preparatory Group”
4. In “Select Year:” choose “CPG-2007”

Related URL’s
WRC-07 - ERO report on first week
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2007/
wrc07_first_week.htm

WRC-07 - ERO report on second week
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2007/
wrc07_second_week.htm

WRC-07 Week 3: HF broadcasting empty-handed, no 5-MHz Amateur Radio allocation
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2007/
wrc07_third_week.htm