Traduction de «Administrative Telegraph and Telephone Conference » (Anglais → Français) :

It is also important that we in the European Parliament should support the preparatory work which has been done in the CEPT, or European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations, and that we should not criticise this work for I believe that it was one of the reasons why Europe was successful to the point that our models were adopted and that we obtained supplementary limits for the third generation telephones, as well as uniform ...[+++] frequencies throughout the world.

1988 could prove a milestone year for international telecommunications, in particular, the World Administrative Telegraph and Telephone Conference (WATTC) in Melbourne will be an important milestone which will decide whether telecommunications are in the future to be the driving force in the development of world trade and the world economy that they could, and should, be; or if world telecommunications are to be the scene of new ruptures and battlelines, which can ultimately benefit no one. The Community feels called on to make a constructive contribution to the WATTC.

The Commissioner has already attended a number of occasions at which competition policy was debated and in particular the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (see annex 1), the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House, London (see annex 2), the Club de Brussels (see annex 3), an International Postal, Telegraph and Telephone conference (see annex 4) and the German Employers' Federation (BDI).

The success of these multilateral endeavours will, I believe, depend not least on whether the major trading blocs and countries resist the temptation to conclude bilateral agreements aimed not so much at the legitimate safeguarding of national interests as at dictating the rules of the game to the rest of the world. In saying that the multilateral framework agreed on will have to be capable of adapting to technological and market developments, I make no secret of the concern with which we are approaching the World Conference of Administrative Telegraph and Telephone, due to be held in Melbourne at the end of 1988, wh ...[+++]ich will in effect map out the development of telecommunications up to the end of the century.

More specifically, this item concerns the World Administrative Telephone and Telegraph Conference (WATTC) to be held in Melbourne in December 1988, the second session of the World Administrative Radio Conference on the placing in orbit of communications satellites (WARC ORB), which will be held from 29 August to 5 October 1988, and questions relating to telecommunications and associated services arising from the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations.