1. Spectrum Pricing in Europe Consideration by CEPT/WGRR/RR8 (fees & charges)

2. RR8 produced a report on pricing as an aide to CEPT member states chaired by L. Jeanty ERO members from Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Norway, Denmark, France and UK

3. Information gathered from within Europe and beyond considered economic factors, auctions, incentive pricing and cost pricing

4. Models in force fees = cost for each type of licence fees = cost across sectors or in total allow some differential pricing fees set on incentive factors use of beauty contest still requires fees setting auctions-market determines price

5. Developments in Europe auctions happening in Netherlands, Germany, UK, Russia and anticipated in France, Poland, Hungary Beyond Europe Auctions in Australia, USA, NZ

6. Differential pricing within overall total cost regime increasingly being applied in Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal Full Incentive Spectrum Pricing seriously studied in Netherlands, France and Denmark (Possibly some Eastern European States too)

7. Report contains section on Secondary trading and on refarming too. Netherlands and Switzerland most interested Further work anticipated on refarming

8. RR8 just starting work on PMR & Satellite ground station fees looking at reasons for wide spread of prices