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WRC-07 preparatory meeting underway in Geneva

From "World Radiocommunication Conference preparatory meeting opens in Geneva: Attention focuses on managing radio spectrum for the future," ITU press release, 20 February:

"The second session of the Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM-07) of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector opened yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland, in the presence of 800 delegates representing 97 countries and over 40 international and industrial organizations. The meeting will continue until 2 March 2007.

"CPM-07 is a major step in the final preparations for the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) which is scheduled to take place in Geneva, 22 October to 16 November 2007. CPM-07 addresses 27 separate agenda items with a view to formulating the technical, operational and regulatory information on which WRC-07 will base its decisions.

"CPM-07 will produce a Report that will address many complex issues arising from the full gamut of studies that have been conducted over the past three and a half years. This, in turn, will allow the World Radiocommunication Conference to work through its agenda as efficiently as possible...

"Almost all the necessary studies of ITU's Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R)... were completed by the study groups before the agreed deadline of 15 September 2006...

"Mr. Valery Timofeev, Director of ITU's Radiocommunication Bureau, stressed that the CPM is not a radiocommunication conference where final decisions are made. 'The challenge facing the CPM is to provide, along with the technical background, a list of alternative methods or possible decisions,' said Mr Timofeev. 'The task is challenging and difficult. And probably the most difficult is the need to decrease the number of alternatives presented in the draft report to the World Radiocommunication Conference later this year.'..."

[ITU - 26 February 2007]