Translation of "Licence unique communautaire de télécommunications " (French → English) :

A. whereas auctions of UMTS licences in some Member States have led to financial problems, sometimes acute, in the sector, with a consequent risk of considerable delays to the roll-out of 3G networks and services, and whereas some Member States now want to take unilateral aid measures, thus creating obstacles to the harmonised development of the single telecommunications market, calling on the Commission to take advantage of the Spring European Council in 2003 to submit an action plan aimed at the creation of a level playing field for ...[+++] 3G infrastructure, applications and services in the EU, and whereas the allocation of 3G licences in Europe has led to distortion of competition and fragmentation of the European mobile communications market,

A single Committee should replace the ‘ONP Committee’ instituted by Article 9 of Directive 90/387/EEC and the Licensing Committee instituted by Article 14 of Directive 97/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 April 1997 on a common framework for general authorisations and individual licences in the field of telecommunications services .

(34) A single Committee should replace the "ONP Committee" instituted by Article 9 of Directive 90/387/EEC and the Licensing Committee instituted by Article 14 of Directive 97/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 April 1997 on a common framework for general authorisations and individual licences in the field of telecommunications services(18).

k) "railway undertaking" means any public or private undertaking, licensed according to applicable Community legislation, the principal business of which is to provide services for the transport of goods and/or passengers by rail with a requirement that the undertaking must ensure traction; this also includes undertakings which provide traction only.

7. Considers that the regulatory framework and its implementation by Member States must stimulate cross-border cooperation and thus be able to implement the concept of "one-stop-shopping" for the general authorisation of licences; believes that, in each Member State, there must be a timetable for the integration of the NRA into the national competition authority and that the Commission should reformulate the tasks of the NRAs in a Directive including sunset clauses in order to bring about transparency and a common minimum package of tasks of NRAs; takes the view that the NRAs must be encouraged to undertake cross-border cooperation and ...[+++] be responsible for cross-border dispute settlements in cooperation with the Commission; notes that the existence of the HLCG is limited to the period during which NRAs are not yet integrated into national competition authorities; calls on the Commission to foster the dialogue between NRAs and representatives of consumers and of the ICT industrialists and telecom operators; bears in mind the possibility of a yearly communication from the IRG to Parliament;

(14) The protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data is solely governed by Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data(19) and Directive 97/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector(20) which are fully applicable to information society services; these Directives already establish a Community legal framework in the field ...[+++] of personal data and therefore it is not necessary to cover this issue in this Directive in order to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market, in particular the free movement of personal data between Member States; the implementation and application of this Directive should be made in full compliance with the principles relating to the protection of personal data, in particular as regards unsolicited commercial communication and the liability of intermediaries; this Directive cannot prevent the anonymous use of open networks such as the Internet.