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1. This Regulation provides for a common approach for ensuring that users of public mobile communications networks, when travelling within the Union, do not pay excessive prices for Union-wide roaming services in comparison with competitive national prices, when making calls and receiving calls, when sending and receiving SMS messages and when using packet switched data communication services. This Regulation thereby contributes to the smooth functioning of the internal market while achieving a high level of consumer protection, data protection, privacy and trust, fostering competition, independence and transparency in the market and offering incentives for innovation, consumer choice and the integration of persons with disabilities, while fully complying with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This Regulation sets out the conditions for wholesale access to public mobile communications networks for the purpose of providing regulated roaming services. It applies both to charges levied by network operators at wholesale level and to charges levied by roaming providers at retail level.

2. This Regulation also lays down rules aiming to increase transparency and improving the provision of information on charges to users of roaming services, including users of non-regulated roaming services in third countries. It also increases transparency for users of non-regulated roaming services when they connect to a non-terrestrial public mobile communications network, such as on board vessels or aircraft, where applicable.

3. The maximum charges set out in this Regulation are expressed in euro.

4. Where maximum charges under Articles 8 to 11 are denominated in currencies other than the euro, the values shall be determined in those currencies by applying the average of the reference exchange rates published on 15 January, 15 February and 15 March of the relevant calendar year by the European Central Bank in the Official Journal of the European Union. For the maximum charges, the limits in currencies other than the euro shall be revised annually as from 2023. The annually revised limits in those currencies shall apply from 15 May.

5. This Regulation is without prejudice to the assignment of tasks to national regulatory authorities and other competent authorities under Directive (EU) 2018/1972, including the responsibilities for implementing Part III, Title III of that Directive.