Use of numbering/addresses

Numbering and/or addresses from the Numbering Plan and Addressing Plan may be used on the basis of authorizations for the use of numbering and/or addresses issued by the Agency.

The Agency shall issue an authorization for use of numbers and/or addresses in compliance to General Administrative Procedure and through tender procedure, in accordance with the Law. Tender procedure shall be conducted in instances when it is estimated that demand exceeds numbering and/or addressing resources.

The Agency shall be obliged to issue the authorization no later than 45 days upon submitting the request, or within three months in case of the tender procedure.

The authorization for the use of numbering and/or addresses contains:

1) data on holder of authorization;
2) allocated numbers and/or addresses;
3) the purpose of use of allocated numbers and/or addresses;
4) beginning, timeframe and dynamics of use of allocated numbers and/or series of numbers;
5) conditions for use of allocated numbers and/or addresses.

The holder of the authorization to use numbers and/or addresses may reserve numbers and/or addresses for a period of one year, with a possibility for the extension for one more year at the most; shall return the assigned numbers and/or addresses if they are not used according to the plan and dynamic of use; shall use the assigned numbers and/or addresses in manner described in the authorization; shall pay an annual fee for using the assigned numbers and/or addresses; shall meet the condition for number portability, in accordance with this Law; shall be obliged to use the assigned numbers and/or addresses solely for the purpose they are assigned for, and not to cause damage to a particular group of users; shall fulfill the obligations laid down in the acts of international law relating to numbering and/or addresses assignment and use, applicable in Montenegro; may assign numbers and/or addresses to its end-users.

The right to use assigned numbers and/or addresses shall not be transferred or ceded to other legal or natural person without prior consent of the Agency.

The applicant for use of numbers and/or addresses shall pay a one-off fee to the Agency for processing the request which corresponds to real costs. This fee shall be the Agency's revenue.

All holders of the authorizations for the use of numbers and/or addresses shall pay a regulatory annual fee to the Agency, which shall be used solely for covering the expenses of supervision and regulation of resources of numbers and addresses. The fee for use of the assigned numbers and/or addresses shall be paid to the Agency in advance for each current year, starting from the date of issuance of the assignment of numbers and/or addresses.