How EFIS supports the spectrum inventory features introduced recently current and near future development 8 th Annual European Spectrum Management Conference, June 2013

CEPT Report 46 provides the information how EFIS is going to be improved to support the spectrum inventory Electronic questionnaires as a key feature to be introduced Information becomes available as data Questionnaires set out the most appropriate data format for individual frequency bands and applications Many new features are to be introduced in EFIS: Date fields indicate validity of information, duplex pairing, technology in use, etc. Provide tools to administrations to provide non-regulatory information and on evolution of spectrum use Provide possibility to third parties yo contribute information into EFIS Support existing processes such as ETSI-ECC cooperation (e.g. ETSI spectrum utilisation proposals (demand side) to be shown in EFIS at all stages) Features introduced recently

Current and near future developments Cross-referencing in EFIS is being improved via tags, thumbnails and icons tags’ will be implemented in EFIS, to define different types of relevant information. The tags will be shown as thumbnails under applications (for the ECA Table and for individual countries) and will indicate that information of a particular kind is available for that particular frequency band and application. Introduction of report generation tool, making it easier in future to generate reports/summaries from EFIS and to make the information available as data (a lot of information is available in documents in EFIS) - SRD -Fixed Service -Rights of Use -Satellite services -Other Services (improvement takes place application field-by-application field)