Translation of "Sous-Division des applications et services de réseaux " (French → English) :

Therefore this Regulation should be applicable not only to electronic communications network providers but to any owner or holder of rights to use extensive and ubiquitous physical infrastructures suitable to host electronic communications network elements, such as physical networks for the provision of electricity, gas, water and sewage, heating and transport services.

Therefore this Regulation should be applicable not only to electronic communications network providers but to any owner or holder of rights to use extensive and ubiquitous physical infrastructures suitable to host electronic communications network elements, such as physical networks for the provision of electricity, gas, water and sewage and drainage systems, heating and transport services.

3. A national regulatory authority may issue guidelines setting minimum quality of service requirements, and, if appropriate, take other measures, in order to prevent degradation of service and slowing of traffic over networks, and to ensure that the ability of users to access or distribute content or to run applications and services of their choice is not unreasonably restricted.

47. Regrets the approval of the Services Directive, concerning the liberalisation of services in the EU, and warns against the consequences of its implementation; recognises the importance of the services sector for economic growth and job creation, but takes the view that the liberalisation of services promotes labour deregulation, and social and environmental dumping, and jeopardises public services, jobs and social and consumer rights; stresses that governments are losing their regulatory and monitoring role in respect of service provision by foreign enterprises on their territory, contributing to further deregulation of the market; rejects the a ...[+++]rtificial division of economic and non-economic services of general interest and stresses that this is a way to put public services under the scope of the directive;

Network applications and services addressing their specific needs are able to contribute to the overcoming of socio-economic, geographical and cultural barriers.

(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.