Brussels, 07/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission welcomes the results achieved by the World Radiocommunication Conference 2003 (WRC-03), which ended last Friday in Geneva after four weeks of negotiation. This session of the conference - which is organised at regular intervals by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) - was aimed at updating the allocation of radio spectrum and its usage conditions at global level. In a press release published on 4 July, the Commission stresses that the aims it had set itself (see EUROPE of 18 April, p.13), which had been endorsed by the Council, have been reached to satisfaction. This positive outcome means that the decisions taken by the WRC-03 will facilitate the major policies and initiatives at Community level regarding radio spectrum, the information society (development of mobile 3G communications, wireless LAN) and transport (Galileo system of satellite navigation). We recall that, in April, the Commission had invited the European Parliament and the Council to call on Member States to provide their active support to the European proposals developed with a view to the WRC-03 by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (ECPT), taking into consideration the objectives of Community policies. The Commission now proposes to carry out an indepth analysis of the decisions of WRC-03. It will set out its conclusions in a forthcoming communication to the Council and to the Parliament and will propose, if necessary, measures aimed at consolidating the Community approach with regards radio spectrum policy. It stresses, moreover, that the end of the session in Geneva marks the start of the process for preparing the next conference (WRC-07, in 2007), when it intends to support the aims that it is to define in collaboration with the group for radio spectrum policy, taking technical discussions held within the ECPT into account.