Traduction de «Opérateur à l'entrée du laminoir » (Français → Anglais) :

The remedies in these cases ensured that competition between market players is maintained, both through market entry or expansion of so-called mobile virtual network operators – that is operators that do not own a network but use the network of another operator to provide services to their customers – and by keeping the door open for a new network operator to enter the market in the future.

Where market entry or expansion has been frustrated in the past (as shown for example, by past behavioural findings) or where very low volumes of lines and their significantly limited geographic reach as compared to the SMP operator’s NGA network indicate that objective economic conditions do not favour the acquisition of scale by alternative operators, NRAs may make adjustments for scale to the SMP operator’s downstream costs in order to ensure that economic replicability is a realistic prospect.

Where market entry or expansion has been frustrated in the past (as shown for example, by past behavioural findings) or where very low volumes of lines and their significantly limited geographic reach as compared to the SMP operator’s NGA network indicate that objective economic conditions do not favour the acquisition of scale by alternative operators, NRAs may make adjustments for scale to the SMP operator’s downstream costs in order to ensure that economic replicability is a realistic prospect.

However, in order to control budgetary expenditure and to ensure a level-playing field between economic operators, it should be provided that recognition plans that have been accepted before the entry into force of this Regulation should be treated in the same way as recognition plans adopted after the entry into force of this Regulation, with respect to the Union contribution to aid referred to in Article 103a(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, where the producer groups concerned have not yet committed themselves financially or have not yet entered into legally binding arrangements with third parties as regards the relevant investme ...[+++]nts prior to the date of entry into force of this Regulation.

In such situations, NRAs may allow them, after having determined that there are impediments on the retail market to market entry and expansion, to recoup their higher incremental costs compared to those of a modelled operator for a transitional period of up to four years after market entry.

Major obstacles in the area of services and establishment are entry barriers such as nationality requirements, residency requirements, limits on foreign ownership or shareholding, limits on the type of legal entity or entry being subject to an economic needs test.