At a meeting of the EU Competition Council, the UK’s Business Minister, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, and her European counterparts are expected to give their formal agreement to the legislation.
The new rule will mean that mobile phone users will not have to pay any extra for mobile roaming which includes making calls, texts and using the internet while abroad.
Although the ending of the charge is not due to be implemented until June 2017, further cuts to roaming will be introduced on April 30 2016 as part of the same agreement.
After the 2016 date, the cost of using data abroad will have been reduced by 95 per cent in comparison to four years ago.
The UK government said it had led the calls to end roaming charges since the beginning by working with its allies in other EU countries and the European Parliament.
The European Commission originally began the process of pushing for a reduction of roaming charges in 2006, with fees dropping...