Translation of "commutateur à intégration de services " (French → English) :

Financial Services: Action Plan to integrate EU financial markets enters home straight

The requirement is limited to a single narrowband network connection, the provision of which may be restricted by Member States to the end-user's primary location/residence, and does not extend to the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) which provides two or more connections capable of being used simultaneously.

As regards new electronic data transmission services, the Commission stresses that according to the undertakings given, the first phase of a pan-European integrated services digital network should be brought into service in 1993 on the basis of genuinely European standards, and that frequencies should be reserved throughout the Community for facilitating cellular telephone, digital cordless telephone and radiopaging services, areas in which the disparities between national systems are preventing industry from benefiting from the econo ...[+++]mies of scale inherent in a large integrated market.

- 4TH ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ISDN - COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS The Council, Having regard to Council Recommendation 86/659/EEC on the co-ordinated introduction of the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) in the Community; Having regard to the Annual ISDN Progress Report 1993 from the Commission; Having regard to the launching of EURO-ISDN based on harmonized standards at the end of 1993; Whereas the Council Recommendation of 5 June 1992 (1) calls for the application of the open network access principles to ISDN; Whereas the Council in its Resolution of 5 June 1992 (2) has recognized the importance of developing ISDN in the cont ...[+++]ext of trans- European networks; Whereas EURO-ISDN is considered as a first major element of the advanced information networks in the Community; Whereas EURO-ISDN will rapidly develop into a universal access and delivery platform for generic services and applications; Whereas EURO-ISDN is of particular importance for the 14 million small and medium-sized enterprises in the Community which typically depend on a general, publically available service offering; Encourages the public network operators: - to continue their co-ordination with regard to the introduction of EURO-ISDN in the Community; (1) OJ No L 200, 18.7.1992, p. 10 (2) OJ No C 158, 25.6.1992, p. 1. - to co-operate for the enhancement of the common set of services notably with a view to ensuring interoperability of generic services; - to introduce a harmonized packet mode bearer service on the D-channel on the ISDN access throughout the Community, taking into account market demand; Invites the Commission: - to continue with the promotion of the co-ordinated introduction of EURO-ISDN in the Member States of the Community; - to continue with the support for the European ISDN User Forum; - to undertake where necessary suitable initiatives for the availability of compatible generic services.

4) The Council reached agreement on the work programme in the field of ONP for the next years. In particular, this programme provides that : there will be specific ONP Directives for leased lines and voice telephony; by 1 January 1991, technical interfaces and services features concerning packet-switched data transmission and the ISDN will be established and could be made mandatory according to the procedure mentioned above; ONP conditions will be adopted in the form of recommendations by 1 July 1991 and 1 January 1992 for packet-switched data transmission and the ISDN respectively; -2- the Council will examine Commisson proposals in ...[+++]1992 and thereafter by which the recommendations mentioned above would be transposed into directives. THE SERVICES DIRECTIVE On 28 June 1989, the Commission had adopted a first draft of the Services Directive on the basis of Article 90(3) of the Treaty. However, the Commission postponed its entry into force so that the Council of Ministers would have sufficient time to adopt the Directive on Open Network Provision (the ONP Directive). Thus, the Commission wished to see the Services Directive entering into force on the same day as the ONP Directive. The basic concept of the Services Directive is as follows : The exclusive or special rights of the PTTs in the field of telecommunications services have to be abolished, with the exception of voice telephony and the network infrastructure.

The Ministers of the Member States responsible for telecommunications are to meet informally in Athens on Saturday, 5 November to discuss four matters: the World Administrative Telephone and Telegraph Conference (WATTC), competition for telecommunication services contracts, high-definition television and the coordinated introduction of the integrated services digital network (ISDN).