The European legislator has determined that extraterritorial use of numbers, i.e. outside the territory of the allocating Member State, should be possible.
More specifically this concerns the use of non-geographic numbers (so without any geographical meaning) for non-interpersonal communications services. This means other communications services than those involving direct personal communications between a number of persons, e.g. automatic data transfer. To facilitate this each Member State has to allocate a non-geographic number range.
By way of a consultation regarding the draft decision the purpose was to obtain feedback from all interested parties about the various options, and to gather any useful remarks as to the BIPT proposal for the number range to be allocated. The adopted decision can be found here.
- FR: Download document "Décision du 25 janvier 2022 concernant l'attribution d’une série de numéros non géographiques pour des services de communications électroniques non interpersonnelles sur l’ensemble du territoire de l’Union européenne"
- NL: Download document "Besluit van 25 januari 2022 betreffende de toewijzing van een reeks niet-geografische nummers voor niet-interpersoonlijke communicatiediensten op het hele grondgebied van de Europese Unie"