1. Info to the ECC-ETSI Officials Meeting, October 2012
ECO Frequency Information System (EFIS) Updates and enhancements in 2012

2. Some Changes following major software update to v. 4 late December 2011
New layout (to reflect ECO web style)
Enhanced term selection: two ways of selecting allocation and application terms (hierarchical/layer term selection , i.e. search directly on Layer 1,2 or 3 terms, or ‘flat list’)
New section/page: ‘Spectrum inventory’, with non-regulatory information:
‘ETSI Srdoc’ information included as discussed with ETSI –ECO web-meeting on 5 July 2012 (Srdoc WI and published TR -> link to ETSI, ECO uploads draft SRdoc information when the documents become available to ECC fora) - implemented;
‘ECC-ECO’ section contains all spectrum relevant ECC/ERC Reports , CEPT Reports, ECO Reports, but also questionnaire results etc.
‘EU’; relevant EU documents are uploaded by ECO
‘National’ (for docs on spectrum evolution), uploaded by national administrations
Third parties
Other new – regulatory - document types:
‘EC Decisions’, linked to ECA in EFIS, uploaded by ECO
‘RIS Models’ , linked to ECA in EFIS, uploaded by ECO
‘Licensing info’: for national administrations to upload general info on licence-exempt rulings or general licensing documents (e.g. PMR/PAMR)

3. Software enhancement (selection of)
Improved export of ALL data from EFIS - all data can be exported in table (csv format)
ECC/ERC Decision/Recommendations shown in EFIS include link to European map showing implementation of the Decs/Recs
Tooltips (currently for main menu items; will be expanded in the near future)
Grouped document display (each doc appearing only once, related info displayed next to doc) + document comments
European Common allocations for frequency range of any document linked to ECA displayable via click on icon
Google translate functionality

4. Software enhancement (selection of)
Choice of hierarchical or alphabetical application term list (‘flat list’) throughout the system (in addition to the ‘layer’ selection option)
ECA applications search for frequency range of ETSI Srdocs and ETSI Draft Srdocs (as was requested by ETSI)
Third party’ documents (proposed by ECC/ECO MoU or LoU partner, uploaded by ECO):
Documentation from ETSI, CRAF, UIC, EBU and ITU Broadcast Web already available; ECO continues to add info from ‘third parties’
Various layout improvements, incl. menu bar layout and use of icons for some data items

5. General overview
The ECA (European Common Allocations) table is fully merged into EFIS. The ECA database was switched of in September 2012.
EFIS contains the ECA table, an ITU table and 42 national tables
Macedonia FYROM has recently uploaded frequency allocations and applications
Albania and Georgia have published frequency allocations
Three of the countries in EFIS currently have links to NTFAs on national websites, but are expected to upload data before long
Russia is expected to upload its NTFA data to EFIS some time in the autumn
ECO is in regular contact with Belarus and the Ukraine
Some general EFIS statistics (as of 3 August 2012):
Frequency allocations
55,285
Frequency applications
43,401
Frequency tables (active users) 45
Radio interfaces
10,375
Related documents
7,966
Related document types 15
Radio Interface Notes
354,823