Schedule 8: Transparency reports by providers of Category 1 services, Category 2A services and Category 2B services Section 78: OFCOM’s guidance about transparency reports
This section places a requirement on OFCOM to prepare and publish guidance on how they will exercise their power relating to transparency reports. Subsection (1) sets out the matters which must be included in guidance and subsection (2) lists expert bodies and interested parties which must be consulted before preparing this guidance, if OFCOM consider them appropriate consultees. OFCOM must have regard to this guidance when preparing or giving a notice to a provider to produce a transparency report (under section 77) or producing their own transparency reports (under section 159).