1. WRC-15 Background

2. >WRC-15 inter-governmental treaty conference >Purpose to revise the Radio Regulations >Agenda set by previous WRC >Occurs every 3-4 years >Duration of 4 weeks >Outcome Provisional Final Acts of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015

3. WRC-15 Background

4. The Heads of Delegation meeting prior to the opening ceremony 2 November settled on key appointments for WRC-15

5. WRC-15 Background The following were appointed at the opening ceremony: Chairman of the Conference: Mr Festus Yusufu Narai Daudu (Nigeria) Vice-Chairmen of the Conference: Mr A. Jamieson (New Zealand) Mr Y. Al-Bulushi (Oman) Mr D. Obam (Kenya) Mrs D. Tomimura (Brazil) Mr A. Kühn (Germany) Mr N. Nikiforov (Russian Federation) Committee 1: (Steering) (Composed of the Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of the Conference and of the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the Committees.) Committee 2: (Credentials) Chairman:Mr N. Meaney (Australia) Committee 3: (Budget Control) Chairman:Mr A. Kadirov (Uzbekistan) Committee 4: (Specified agenda items) Chairman:Mr M. Fenton (United Kingdom) Committee 5: (Specified agenda items) Chairman:Mr K. Al Awadhi (United Arab Emirates) Committee 6: (Specified agenda items) Chairman:Mrs A. Allison (USA) Committee 7: (Editorial) Chairman:Mr C. Rissone (France)

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8. Largest Delegations >USA: 170 >China: 122 >Turkey: 98 >France: 96 >Nigeria: 88 >Japan: 80 >Germany: 75 >United Kingdom: 72 >Russian Federation: 66 >Korea: 59 >Canada: 40

10. WRC-15 Background So what are these committees >Committee 1 – steering committee – we know how to sort this out >Committee 2 – credentials committee – let me in I’m paid up >Committee 3 – budget committee – it cost how much??? >Committee 4 – agenda items - smartphones, ships, planes – with and without a pilot, same for cars >Committee 5 – agendas items - satellites - big, small, out of control, leap seconds >Committee 6 – more/general agenda items - things we don’t understand and can’t find a place for – oh and the next agenda let’s do it all again in 2019 >Committee 7 – editorial committee - is it ESOMPs or ESIMs, shall or should, just how do you spell the chairman’s name.

11. WRC-15 Background The responsibilities of the key operative Committees 4, 5 and 6: >Committee 4: agenda Items 1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 1.4; 1.5; 1.15; 1.16; 1.17; 1.18; 9.1.7; GFT >Committee 5: agenda items 1.6; 1.7; 1.8; 1.9; 1.10; 1.11; 1.12; 1.13; 1.14; 7; 9.1.1; 9.1.2; 9.1.3; 9.1.5; 9.1.8; 9.2; 9.3 >Committee 6: agenda items 2; 4; 8; 9.1.4; 9.1.6; 9.2; 10 >In addition, many ad hoc groups and expert groups were set up to address issues

12. WRC-15 Background >Australian delegations consisting of members of the ACMA PG WRC-15 and ARSGs participated in many ITU ‑ R meetings through the duration of the study cycle >Australia developed proposals and/or views on all WRC-15 agenda items and promoted these to the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Preparatory Group for WRC-15 (APG15) >Australian delegations led by the ACMA participated in the following APG15 meetings through the WRC-15 study cycle: >APG15-1 – 10-1 September 2012, Da Nang, Vietnam >APG15-2 – 1-5 July 2013, Bangkok, Thailand >APG15-3 – 9-13 June, Brisbane, Australia >APG15-4 – 9-14 February 2015, Bangkok, Thailand >APG15-5 – 27 July - 1 August 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea

13. WRC-15 Background The regional impact >Bigger than ever >But so was the conference >APT vital in negotiations >Australia played a key role through the 2012-2015 study cycle in the Asia-Pacific region

15. WRC-15 Background Major Asia-Pacific regional achievements include: >APG15-3 2014 Brisbane Australia >APG Training workshop Brisbane Australia 2014 >APG Information session on agenda item 1.14 Coordinated Universal Time >Representing Asia-Pacific Region 3 as Chair of Committee 2 at WRC-15

17. WRC-15 Background The key issues of the WRC-15 Agenda were: >agenda item 1.1 International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) >agenda item 1.3 Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) communications >agenda item 1.5 Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) >agenda item 1.14 Future of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) >agenda item 10 New agenda items for the next conference >Global Flight Tracking for civil aviation

18. WRC-15 Background >WRC-15 was very politicised >Ran well over time >Too close for comfort >Decisions by exhaustion >Where were the problems? >However Australia had many useful wins.

19. WRC-15 Background Fare thee well WRC-15