At the sitting of the Assembly Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications, held on November 1, 2024 in the premises of RATEL’s Monitoring and Measurement Center (MMC) Belgrade, Members of Parliament were acquainted with the regulator’s radio frequency monitoring system, as well as the plans and activities pertaining to the construction of the new MMC Belgrade complex.

Committee Chair Uglješa Marković reminded the attendees that this was the second Committee meeting taking place in the Dobanovci MMC, with the first sitting held at the same location on September 21, 2016, when the same topic about the complex construction had been discussed.

As an introduction, RATEL’s director Dragan Pejović gave a short presentation of the regulator’s activities and future plans stemming from its competence. Regarding postal services, he pointed out that during 2024, RATEL had actively participated in the elaboration of the Draft Law on Postal Services, currently in the public consultation phase. Talking about cybersecurity, he reminded that the Draft Law on Information Security was in its final stage, adding that it was to be presented to the Members of Parliament at the end of this year or the beginning of 2025. As for the area of electronic communications, the director said that 52 new Rulebooks, obligatory under the Law on Electronic Communications in force since May 7, 2023, were almost finished and ready to be applied.

Futher on, Mirjana Marčeta, Head of the RF Spectrum Monitoring Division, talked about the RF spectrum monitoring system, as well as the beginnings of the monitoring system construction,  explaining that since the last sitting of the Assembly Committee at MMC Belgrade in 2016, RATEL has rebuilt the facilities at MMC Niš. She highlighted that RATEL had established a monitoring and measurement office in Sevojno as a MMC unit in Southwest Serbia, installed 21 remotely controlled measurement stations and 72 compact remotely controlled measurement stations, and begun the designing process for the new MMC Belgrade complex. In particular, she pointed out that six engineers of MMCs Belgrade and Niš had provided techical support at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris.

Following the presentation, the MPs were familiarized with the technical means used by the MMC engineers, with the focus on various types of monitoring and measurement vehicles.