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TIM

TIM is Italy's leading telecommunications group providing fixed and mobile services, ICT solutions, and supporting digital transformation in Italy and Brazil.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Nicola Zingaretti (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Jan 2026 · Digital Networks Act

Meeting with Carlo Fidanza (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Jan 2026 · legislative update

Meeting with Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (Executive Vice-President) and

8 Jan 2026 · Challenges facing the telecoms sector, EU competition and regulatory policy

TIM S.p.A. urges inclusion of telecommunications in EU green taxonomy

5 Dec 2025
Topic — This consultation reviews technical rules for identifying environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Message — TIM proposes including telecommunications infrastructure in the taxonomy to improve access to green financing. They request simplifying complex performance metrics for data centers and replacing costly third-party audits with a self-certification system.12
Why — This would reduce administrative costs and help the company classify its activities as sustainable.3
Impact — Small businesses would lose their competitive advantage if forced to follow the same reporting rules as large firms.4
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Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE and

1 Dec 2025 · 4th meeting of the Working Group on Regional Electricity Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean

Meeting with Andreas Schwab (Member of the European Parliament) and Vodafone GmbH

23 Sept 2025 · Digital Networks Act (upcoming)

TIM calls for new 'high+' cybersecurity level for EU sovereignty

20 Jun 2025
Topic — The European Commission is reviewing the Cybersecurity Act to update its certification framework.
Message — TIM proposes adding a fourth "high+" level to cybersecurity certifications to address non-technical risks. This would include requirements for legal and operational independence from foreign powers.12
Why — This would protect TIM's market position by ensuring immunity from foreign legal interference.3
Impact — Non-EU technology companies lose access to critical sectors due to new sovereignty requirements.4
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Meeting with Marco Falcone (Member of the European Parliament)

21 May 2025 · Salvaguardare e promuovere la stabilità finanziaria in un contesto di incertezze economiche

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

14 May 2025 · Priorities for the new legislature

Meeting with Carlo Fidanza (Member of the European Parliament)

13 May 2025 · legislative updates

Meeting with Felice Zaccheo (Head of Unit Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

15 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on the EU-LAC Digital Alliance and its synergies with the investments from TIM in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Meeting with Alex Agius Saliba (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Apr 2025 · Visit of TIM to Malta

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

1 Apr 2025 · Plenary Feedback round on previously held GGIA Working Group sessions of 9 different thematical groups regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

TIM urges EU to simplify taxonomy and infrastructure reporting rules

26 Mar 2025
Topic — The consultation seeks to simplify EU taxonomy reporting and climate-related disclosure requirements.
Message — TIM seeks the inclusion of communication networks in the taxonomy and simpler data center criteria. They propose self-certification and equal reporting duties for all firms seeking green funds.123
Why — These changes would reduce administrative burdens and improve the company's access to sustainable finance.45
Impact — SMEs would lose the ability to access green funding without meeting full transparency standards.6
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Meeting with Marco Falcone (Member of the European Parliament) and Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A

12 Mar 2025 · Competition policy report

Meeting with Pasquale Tridico (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Mar 2025 · Meeting Cristiana - TIM

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament) and FERROVIE DELLO STATO ITALIANE S.p.A. and YARA BELGIUM S.A.

11 Mar 2025 · Presentation of priorities

Meeting with Denis Nesci (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Feb 2025 · Competition policy report

Meeting with Nicola Zingaretti (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Feb 2025 · Telco Industry

Meeting with Dario Nardella (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Dec 2024 · Challenges in the field of Industry, Research and Energy

Meeting with Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President) and Telefonica, S.A. and

12 Dec 2024 · Current market developments and views on the future of the sector.

Meeting with Massimiliano Salini (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Dec 2024 · Telecom and digital policies

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Sept 2024 · Projects of Tim, “TIM per il Sud”, Digitalization of the South of Italy

Response to How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?

27 Jun 2024

Telecom Italia's (TIM) response to public consultation TIM welcomes the opportunity to comment on the White Paper, which recognizes the challenges Europes telecoms sector has been facing in the last years and outlines possible ways forward to address these challenges. TIM believes there is an urgent need for the Commission to translate these ideas into concrete measures and legislative proposals. In particular, the most critical areas that would require swift intervention are the following: Building scale: Adoption of more flexible approach towards in-market consolidation, including the important European objectives of competitiveness and financial sustainability of the sector among the efficiencies of a merger, is needed to allow operators to acquire a size within the national market that is sufficient to exploit economies of scale and guarantee the investment capacity for the transformation of secure and sustainable networks and the high quality of services to end customers. Fairness into the extended digital ecosystem: Clear, transparent and balanced relationships between telecom operators and OTTs, should be fostered, overcoming current bargaining power asymmetries by introducing measures to facilitate commercial negotiations and agreements between market actors. Level Playing Field: a new framework should be established for all digital players, streamlining the rules, by abolishing unnecessary sectorial rules, and extending the scope of the revised framework, applying the same rules to analogous services, thereby ensuring a regulatory level playing field and equivalent rights and obligations for all actors and end-users of digital networks. Spectrum: the frequency assignment (and renewal) of spectrum should be modified, adopting the cashless auction model, with minimum financial outlay and commitment to network investments, and providing for an indefinite duration against coverage obligations. Access regulation: the list of relevant markets should be deleted. Competition law and (symmetric) access obligation to physical infrastructure pursuant to the Gigabit Infrastructure Act are by default sufficient to guarantee that competition of retail markets will continue to flourish. Residual ex ante regulation (primarily symmetric) should focus only where a bottleneck persists. Sustainability: telco infrastructures should be included in the taxonomy for green investment. Inclusion also in the CEAG community guidelines is key to extend the benefits provided for energy-intensive industries to the telecommunications sector. Also, the extensive use of data compression techniques by CAPs should be fostered for greater energy efficiency. Please find attached more detailed input.
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Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

6 Mar 2024 · Labour and skills shortages, the EU's social targets, the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan

Meeting with Paolo Gentiloni (Commissioner)

21 Feb 2024 · Exchange of views on the telecommunications sector in Europe and its relevance for the economy.

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

28 Nov 2023 · Telecommunications

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

25 Oct 2023 · Telecoms

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

7 Sept 2023 · Telecoms

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

6 Jun 2023 · Telecoms

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

6 Jun 2023 · Telecom policy

Meeting with Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

31 Mar 2023 · Italian telecoms markets

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

27 Feb 2023 · Telecoms single market

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

10 Oct 2022 · The future of connectivity infrastructure

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

22 Sept 2022 · State of the telecom industry in Italy

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

13 Sept 2022 · Preparation of the meeting between commissioner Breton and TIM CEO

Meeting with Nicola Danti (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Jul 2022 · Scambio di vedute su dossier in corso

Meeting with Paolo Gentiloni (Commissioner)

4 Jul 2022 · Meeting with Mr Pietro Labriola, CEO of Tim: exchange of views on the developments in the telecommunication sector

TIM calls for voluntary agreements and narrower Data Act scope

13 May 2022
Topic — The Data Act proposal aims to regulate data access, sharing, and reuse across European sectors.
Message — TIM requests that data exchanges remain primarily voluntary and contract-based to preserve innovation and investment incentives. They call for connectivity services and mobile devices to be explicitly excluded from the regulation's scope. The company also insists that mandatory government data access be strictly limited to exceptional cases with guaranteed cost recovery.123
Why — Restricting the scope protects TIM's existing commercial data services and reduces its regulatory compliance burden.45
Impact — Public authorities face higher costs and more restrictions when accessing private data for public needs.6
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Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

8 Apr 2022 · Endorsing the Joint statement on Roaming and International calls between EU and Ukraine

Response to Amendment to the Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 European standardisation

7 Apr 2022

TIM is actively contributing its extremely specialised resources and equipment to the development of European standards and is therefore fully appreciative of the initiative adopted by the European Commission with the EU Standardisation Strategy to strengthen the European competitiveness and the resilience of our supply chains, as well as Europe’s ability to promote its “core [..] democratic values and interests as well as green and social principles”. We believe in the crucial role that the Commission can play to ensure a better coordination among European actors, within the Eu and global SDOs and through the Eu Excellence Hub and the Eu High-Level Forum, to promote a more strategic approach to international standardisation and an increased European presence and influence in the relevant international fora. Nevertheless, we recommend that the newly introduced organs’ tasks be accurately established and diversified from the current organs, failing to do so would put the entire prospect of making the “European standardisation [..] more agile, flexible and focused” at risk. We highly support the opportunity of the Commission’s oversight over the alignment of the standardisation activities with the most important and strategic European interests and we trust the EC will be able to strike the perfect balance in a process that must not develop far away from the exigencies of the European industry stakeholders. A high level collaboration with like-minded international partners in strategic areas, in order to take on a few specific capacities that Europe has still to develop, ensure the global interoperability that is vital for certain standards, and promote the adoption of such standards at global level, is also highly welcome. We support the proposed amendment in Article 10 of the Standardisation Regulation, for a European-based decision process, providing for all main votes on the steps of the process in ETSI to be managed by NSOs. We share the vision pursued by such proposal; we would like, though, to make sure that the complex consensus making process that would, accordingly, be spreading primarily from administrative organs (highly heterogeneous and not necessarily specialized on the specific matters under consideration), does not fail to register the European market needs. For such reason, we would deem appropriate to replace the word “exclusively” with the term “ultimately”, in that context, to ensure the process will still allow for the participation of all technical experts and companies at some level (also for competition fairness) and to maintain the important consideration that ETSI has come to get at global level. It would also be extremely important to make sure that the respective official NSOs each country is setting up, are properly organized, able to bring to the table, in the most swift and rapid manner, a vision representing the entire national stakeholder community (that should be associated and consulted at national level). “Through a balanced representation that includes societal stakeholders in national standardisation bodies, this will enhance the openness, transparency and inclusiveness of the process”. We propose thus to integrate the amendment of the Regulation with the recommendation for each NSO to comply with a few main criteria that would make it fit to contribute, in such a decisive way, to Europe’s competitiveness. Either the peers review process, introduced between MSs and NSOs to achieve better inclusiveness, could contemplate the wider objective of ensuring the inclusiveness of the industry as a whole or a similar initiative as the one launched by the EC with the ESOs to modernize their governance, could be launched with respect to NSOs to make sure an actual representation of the entire national ecosystem is granted, including the industry that can bring an actual knowledge of the subject. As the “the special status of ESO”, also the status of NSO should “come with responsibilities”.
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Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

14 Dec 2021 · EU Data strategy, European Cloud Alliance.

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

22 Sept 2021 · EU Telecom policies

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

29 Jul 2021 · Digital decade targets, technology and investment in connectivity

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

29 Jul 2021 · Italian telecoms markets

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

19 Jul 2021 · Pact for Skills roundtable with the digital transition sector.

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

19 Jul 2021 · Skills Roundtable on Digital

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

6 Jul 2021 · Discuss the broader context of Italian RRF on Digital in the light of the recent market evolutions.

Meeting with Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

10 Jun 2021 · TIM

Response to Initiative for reviewing and prolonging the “Roaming Regulation”

4 May 2021

TIM welcomes the possibility to express its views on the recent Commission’s proposal for recast of the Roaming Regulation, extending the Rome Like at Home (RLAH) regime and introducing several additional measures. In particular, TIM wishes to comment on the following particularly relevant aspects: 1. Review of wholesale caps, the further reduction of which does not support infrastructure competition and does not consider investments in 5G; 2. Quality of service, which the home network cannot in any way guarantee abroad; 3. Value-added services, for which the proposed measures are not considered sufficient, while the adoption of a more a structural solution would be needed; 4. Emergency services, whose rules must be consistent with those established within the European Electronic Communications Code; 5. Fair Use, which needs to be reviewed to ensure the sustainability of the roaming offers and the control of frauds; 6. Machine-to-Machine, whose fundamental differences from the "human" environment must be recognized by excluding such services from the scope of the Regulation; 7. Local Break Out (LBO), the mandatory nature of which is no longer justified in the RLAH regime. Please find more details in attachement.
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Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

28 Apr 2021 · Digital Green certificates, 5G (virtual)

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

3 Mar 2021 · Cloud and Connectivity (virtual meeting)

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

9 Feb 2021 · Implementation of the European Electronic Communications Code

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

2 Feb 2021 · Future of telecom industry

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

25 Jan 2021 · Investment in fibre networks in Italy

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

16 Dec 2020 · Roundtable - Cloud Alliance

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

29 Sept 2020 · FTTH

Meeting with Nicola Danti (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

23 Sept 2020 · Prospettiva TIM su data strategy

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and Telefonica, S.A. and

2 Dec 2019 · Meeting with CEOs in the Telecom sector

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

25 Feb 2019 · Courtesy meeting "meet & greet"

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

15 Oct 2018 · Telecom issues - access termination, position of Telecom Italia

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

26 Feb 2018 · Code, ePrivacy, Net neutrality

Response to Guidance on an EU methodology for the determination of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) in telecoms regulation

11 Jan 2018

TIM welcomes the Commission initiative regarding the definition of a methodological best practice for the calculation of the cost of capital (WACC) for telecom regulation, expected to be adopted together with the new European Electronic Communication Code (EECC). Indeed, the WACC is a key factor which directly impacts on the price levels of regulated (cost-oriented) fixed and mobile wholesale services on legacy and NGA networks. As such, the WACC also affects “make-or-buy” decisions of operators and also, as highlighted by the Commission, the migration towards NGA. The relevance of a correct calculation of WACC is stated in the EC proposal on the EECC at Article 72 “Where the national regulatory authorities deem price controls appropriate, they shall allow the operator a reasonable rate of return on adequate capital employed, taking into account any risks specific to a particular new investment network project”. Article 72 also states the “benefits of predictable and stable wholesale prices in ensuring efficient entry and sufficient incentives for all operators to deploy new and enhanced networks”. An incorrect calculation of WACC by NRAs may entail unjustified price changes over different review periods in a Member State, distorting competition and finally hampering investments since, as highlighted in the BEREC Report on Regulatory Accounting in Practice 2017 (BoR (17) 169), “Even minor changes in the WACC can influence the regulated prices significantly given that the telecommunications sector is very capital intensive”. Berec Report also shows a quite high discrepancy among WACC values applied across EU member States (from 4,04% to 15,27% nominal pre-tax), due to both the application of different methodologies and different country specific factors. In the light of the above, TIM shares the EC objective of improving the regulatory predictability and transparency (in each country) and the consistency in the methodologies used by NRAs, increasing the harmonization of the WACC methodologies in the EU. However, TIM wonders if a non-binding provision, as the Notice, may be sufficient to actually ensure the achievement of the Commission’s harmonization objectives. With specific reference to the efficient WACC calculation methodology to be recommended, TIM shares the Commission proposal to refer to NRA’s practices, but the methodology should be also based on a forward-looking approach which grants the achievement of the new EECC objective of promoting the access and take-up of VHC (Very High Capacity) networks. Finally, TIM asks the Commission to consider that a single WACC should be evaluated for fixed and mobile regulated services, giving the high and increasing convergence of services and platforms.
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Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

27 Feb 2017 · 5G, roaming, spectrum, investment consolidation

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

27 Sept 2016 · Evolutions in the Italian market and Telecom Italia investment plan - Use of public funds and the Italian case on Ultra broadband -Initial assessment of the European Code of Electronic Communications

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

27 Sept 2016 · Working lunch on Telecom reforms and roaming

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

11 Mar 2016 · DSM

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

23 Feb 2016 · DSM Strategy, investments, digitalisation of industry

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President) and

3 Dec 2015 · Business Europe CEO day

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy)

28 Aug 2015 · AGCOM's review of acces markets