Translation of "principe d objectivité " (French → English) :

The development of greater competition and choice means that Member States should be given further flexibility to determine the most efficient and appropriate mechanism to guarantee the availability of the universal service, while respecting the principles of objectivity, transparency, non-discrimination, proportionality and least market distortion necessary to ensure the free provision of postal services in the internal market.

The development of greater competition and choice means that Member States should have further flexibility to determine the most efficient and appropriate mechanism to guarantee the availability of the universal service, while respecting the principles of objectivity, transparency, non discrimination, proportionality and least market distortion necessary to ensure the free provision of postal services in the internal market.

The Commission concludes that the negotiated TPA system can coexist with a SB system provided that well defined precautions are applied in order to respect the principles of objectivity, transparency and non-discrimination.

- Transparency and distorsion of competition: in order to ensure that the principles of objectivity, transparency and non-discrimination are respected, to guarantee that competition is not distorted, to avoid the risk of potential discrimination, and to achieve neutral and independent treatment, the Single Buyer, where part of an integrated undertaking, should be fully unbundled in terms of a full separation of management and of information flows between its different activities, especially in terms of production and supply.

In essence, the law needs to be objective, non-discriminatory, prospective and based on acts, not on intent and not on membership, because the security certificates criminalize membership.

The important features which will be ensured by the proposed regulatory framework for interconnection are : application of the principles of transparency, objectivity, and non- discrimination to guarantee a fair deal in interconnection agreements in particular between new entrants and the powerful incumbent telecommunications operators priority given to commercial negotiations between interconnection parties while reserving some conditions to be set a priori by national telecommunications regulatory authorities ; clear responsibilities for national regulatory authorities, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, including effec ...[+++]tive mechanisms for dispute resolution at the national and European level.