Translation of "services fournis aux passagers " (French → English) :

Where the service is not provided over a switched telephony network, the information should also include the level of reliability of the access and of caller location information compared to a service that is provided over a switched telephony network, taking into account current technology and quality standards, as well as any quality of service parameters specified under Directive 2002/22/EC (Universal Service Directive).

Excluded are transportation of travellers within the economies that they are visiting, where such transportation is provided by carriers not resident in the particular economy being visited, as well as the international carriage of travellers, both of which are covered in passenger services under transportation.

* for all sectors, services provided to the public in the exercise of governmental authority, which means any service that is supplied neither on a commercial basis, nor in competition with one or more service suppliers.

The service level provided did not enable them to provide their passengers with a quality air transport service.

The liberalisation of international passenger services will not affect train services designed to carry commuters and the ordinary travelling public within national frontiers since these services, except in very rare cases, are provided on a national, regional or local level.

The main victims will be small- and medium-sized companies, whose choice of service providers will be reduced and who are not in a position to exert any downward pressure on the prices for such services; - the national markets in question are very important in terms of size in the total EU context: approximately 45 % of data communications services in the entire EU are accounted for by services provided in France and Germany; - the elimination of competition on national markets is aggravated by the fact that the parent companies of ATLAS at present enjoy monopolies for the provision of infrastructure, the necessary building blocks for ...[+++]service providers competing with ATLAS; in the absence of alternative infrastructure allowing competing service providers to build up their own networks at competitive prices, competition will suffer a set-back precisely at the time that action taken by the Commission to liberalize all telecommunications services except basic voice services should begin to bear its fruits for the benefit of users.