Info to the ECC-ETSI Officials Meeting, October 2012 ECO Frequency Information System (EFIS) Updates and enhancements in 2012

Some Changes following major software update to v. 4 late December 2011 New layout (to reflect ECO web style) Enhanced term selection: two ways of selecting allocation and application terms (hierarchical/layer term selection , i.e. search directly on Layer 1,2 or 3 terms, or ‘flat list’) New section/page: ‘Spectrum inventory’, with non-regulatory information: ‘ETSI Srdoc’ information included as discussed with ETSI –ECO web-meeting on 5 July 2012 (Srdoc WI and published TR -> link to ETSI, ECO uploads draft SRdoc information when the documents become available to ECC fora) - implemented; ‘ECC-ECO’ section contains all spectrum relevant ECC/ERC Reports , CEPT Reports, ECO Reports, but also questionnaire results etc. ‘EU’; relevant EU documents are uploaded by ECO ‘National’ (for docs on spectrum evolution), uploaded by national administrations Third parties Other new – regulatory - document types: ‘EC Decisions’, linked to ECA in EFIS, uploaded by ECO ‘RIS Models’ , linked to ECA in EFIS, uploaded by ECO ‘Licensing info’: for national administrations to upload general info on licence-exempt rulings or general licensing documents (e.g. PMR/PAMR)

Software enhancement (selection of) Improved export of ALL data from EFIS - all data can be exported in table (csv format) ECC/ERC Decision/Recommendations shown in EFIS include link to European map showing implementation of the Decs/Recs Tooltips (currently for main menu items; will be expanded in the near future) Grouped document display (each doc appearing only once, related info displayed next to doc) + document comments European Common allocations for frequency range of any document linked to ECA displayable via click on icon Google translate functionality

Software enhancement (selection of) Choice of hierarchical or alphabetical application term list (‘flat list’) throughout the system (in addition to the ‘layer’ selection option) ECA applications search for frequency range of ETSI Srdocs and ETSI Draft Srdocs (as was requested by ETSI) Third party’ documents (proposed by ECC/ECO MoU or LoU partner, uploaded by ECO): Documentation from ETSI, CRAF, UIC, EBU and ITU Broadcast Web already available; ECO continues to add info from ‘third parties’ Various layout improvements, incl. menu bar layout and use of icons for some data items

General overview The ECA (European Common Allocations) table is fully merged into EFIS. The ECA database was switched of in September 2012. EFIS contains the ECA table, an ITU table and 42 national tables Macedonia FYROM has recently uploaded frequency allocations and applications Albania and Georgia have published frequency allocations Three of the countries in EFIS currently have links to NTFAs on national websites, but are expected to upload data before long Russia is expected to upload its NTFA data to EFIS some time in the autumn ECO is in regular contact with Belarus and the Ukraine Some general EFIS statistics (as of 3 August 2012): Frequency allocations 55,285 Frequency applications 43,401 Frequency tables (active users) 45 Radio interfaces 10,375 Related documents 7,966 Related document types 15 Radio Interface Notes 354,823