The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly considering a) that electronic news gathering (ENG) using portable or transportable equipment is used to support broadcast operations and provides a valuable method of transmission for the rapid acquisition of news for broadcasting; b) that different frequency bands are currently used in different countries for ENG in the terrestrial, fixed and mobile service allocations; c) that the harmonization of the spectrum requirements for ENG would provide greater efficiencies in spectrum usage and equipment interoperability; d) that such harmonization can only be achieved when the technical and operational characteristics of ENG links are investigated further; e) that the use of such links may give rise to sharing difficulties within these bands with existing services which must be protected.