 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this 2012 edition of the ITU World Radio Communication Seminar. The radio regulations and the associated rules of procedure constitute the basic text which enable administrations throughout the world to obtain and maintain rights to use spectrum. In such a way that they can operate their radio communication networks without causing and without suffering harmful interference. Your presence here in Geneva at this World Radio Communication Seminar is the indication that you are playing an active role in this essential process which enables every citizens in the world to have access to information anywhere, anytime. Radio communications today are undergoing constant changes. These changes occur both in technologies and practices. This is why these changes need to be reflected in the international regulations and this is the purpose of the World Radio Communication Conferences. They also need to be reflected in the ITU radio communication recommendations and they also need to be reflected in the software tools that we are using in the ITU Radio Communication Bureau to process in an efficient and reliable way the thousands of notices we receive from you every week. This number is actually increasing as a result of the massification of radio communication applications. There is therefore a need for the ITU membership to be regularly updated in what is going on in all these fields. This is the purpose of this World Radio Communication Seminar. For this 2012 edition we have structured this seminar in two parts. The first two days will be devoted to presentations and discussions on the changes which occurred as a result of the WRC 12 decisions in the regulatory texts, the changes which are being discussed already for WRC 15 preparation, the changes in the software tools and finally the changes in radio communication networks and technologies in particular in the mobile world or the television world which are now converging. The second part of this World Radio Communication Seminar in 2012 will be three days of hands-on exercise in order to enable you to master both the procedures and the software tools that we are using to process your rights. I sincerely hope that this 2012 edition of the ITU World Radio Communication Seminar will be successful and profitable to you and I would like to thank you for helping the ITU to connect the world. Thank you.