Press Release: Telecoms: Latvia warned over administrative charges in telecoms sector

On 25 June, 2009, the European Commission launched legal action against Latvia over the administrative charges levied by the 'Electronic Communications Office' (Elektronisko sakaru direkcija (ESD)), one of Latvia’s national telecoms regulators. The Commission was concerned that the administrative charges collected from companies for controlling the usage of the radio spectrum are not imposed in an objective, transparent and proportionate way. The Commission therefore decided to send a letter of formal notice, the first step in an infringement proceeding, to the Latvian authorities.