Brussels, 16/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises of General Economic Interest (CEEP) has called on the European Commission to make the electronic communications regulatory framework more flexible if it believes in competition and wants to keep pace with modern economies. As part of the consultation of interested parties, which ended on 31 January, the CEEP published a report on the revision process undertaken by the Commission, which will submit its proposal before the summer. The CEEP believes the current framework to be too static and inflexible to adapt to technological developments and to allow the necessary investment for the development of markets. “A great number of provisions of the framework have therefore to be corrected in order to promote sustainable competition able to fuel the European policy of innovation, growth and investment,” stresses the CEEP. It also calls for better control of the whole process of de-regulation to ensure the transition to a framework governed by competition. At the same time, some regulation will remain necessary to ensure a balance between networks and content, of primary importance not only for consumer choice but also for cultural diversity and media pluralism. The revision, stresses CEEP, “should take into account the fact that access to content is of prime importance in a digital convergent environment”. Currently the framework does not respond to the strategic Lisbon objectives in growth, competitiveness and jobs, it concludes.