19.12.2024.
Coming into force of new rulebooks on 19.12.2024
The Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services, within the prescribed competences and deadlines, adopted the following rulebooks that entered into force on 19 December 2024:
· Rulebook on information on contract terms that the provider of publicly available electronic communications services is obliged to publish, the manner of their publication and deadlines, the form of the contract summary and the content of the notification of the intention to unilaterally change the contract terms and the end user's right to terminate the contract before the expiry of the period for which it was concluded ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia", No. 98/24 of 11 December 2024), which shall apply from 1 July 2025, and which specifies in more detail the information on contract terms that the provider of publicly available electronic communications services is obliged to publish in accordance with the provisions of Article 126, paragraphs 1-4 and Article 127 of the Law on Electronic Communications (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/23), the manner of their publication and deadlines, the contract summary form and the content of the notification of the intention to unilaterally change the terms of the contract, as well as the right of the end user to terminate the contract before the expiration of the period for which it was concluded, without the obligation to pay costs related to termination.
· Rulebook on the manner of documenting excessive costs and criteria for exercising the right to compensation for excessive costs incurred by the provision of universal service ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia", No. 98/24 of 11 December 2024), which shall be applied from 1 March 2025 and which regulates in more detail the method of documenting excessive net costs incurred by the provision of universal service, the criteria applied for exercising the right to compensation for excessive net costs, as well as the methodology for determining the amount of funds for each business entity to be paid to finance excessive net costs for the provision of universal service in the previous accounting period.