Next hit, Spain arrives Kosovo's exclusion from the European Telecommunications Regulatory Organisation

The Court of Justice of the European Union (GJED) has decided in favour of Spain to exclude Kosovo from participation in the European Regulatory Organisation for Electronic Communications (ORECE).

According to Spanish media, in an act published this Tuesday, the EU Supreme Court considers that the European Commission, which in 2019 allowed Kosovo to participate in working groups of this body, it was not “ <x0petent” to adopt such a decision, stressing that its only function in the ORECE is tax2> control the proper functioning of regulation”.

However, European Court of Justice judges argue that their position has nothing to do with the fact that Kosovo has not been recognised as a sovereign state within the European Union.

The dispute arose in March 2019, when the European Commission authorised several Balkan countries including Kosovo to participate in co-operation activities between national regulatory authorities and O RCE.

Three months after that decision, Spain filed a complaint with the European Union General Court (TGUE) for its annulment. In argument, the state asserted that the community executive had no competence to establish standards of work unilaterally, and also stressed that Kosovo cannot be considered a third “with the capacity to participate in organs such as O RCE, reports Report 10.

Although the General Court initially rejected the Spanish complaint, both the Attorney General and the GED. But Spain did not give up, complaining in the highest instance.

Despite everything, and in order to keep Kosovo's participation in the EUREC” at risk, the GED has decided to preserve the effects of the Commission's decision until the adoption of new labour rules between the EUREC and Kosovo state authorities.

According to the court, however, this extraordinary situation should be resolved within a maximum period of six months.

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