Spain may postpone until:
(a) 1 January 1998 the notification to the Commission before implementation of any licensing or declaration procedure for the provision of voice telephony and the establishment of public telecommunications networks, and of the details of the national scheme envisaged to share the net cost of the provision of the Universal Service Obligation;
(b) 1 August 1998 the publication of any licensing or declaration procedure for the provision of voice telephony and the establishment of public telecommunications networks, and of the details of the national scheme envisaged to share the net cost of the provision of the Universal Service Obligation; and
(c) 1 December 1998 the effective granting of further licences for the provision of voice telephony and public telecommunications networks, in compliance with the conditions set out in the relevant Spanish law and implementing regulations and in conformity with Directive 90/388/EEC.
Spain shall inform the Commission of the implementation in national law of the following obligations in accordance with the following timetable:
(a) during 1997, cable operators who apply in compliance with the conditions set out in the relevant law and implementing regulations shall be allowed to provide voice telephony including the possibility of interconnecting their networks for this purpose;
(b) before the end of 1997, the new General Telecommunications Law (Ley General de Telecomunicaciones), which will implement the outstanding provisions of Community law in the telecommunications sector, shall be adopted;
(c) in early January 1998, a third nation-wide licence to operate voice telephony and public telecommunications networks shall be granted, in addition to the licence which was granted in 1996 to a second operator; and
(d) before the end of July 1998, all laws and regulations necessary for the complete opening of the telecommunications market to competition shall be in place.
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Spain.
Done at Brussels, 10 June 1997.
For the Commission
Karel VAN MIERT
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 192, 24. 7. 1990, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 74, 22. 3. 1996, p. 13.
(3) OJ C 4, 8. 1. 1997, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 41, 12. 2. 1997, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 133, 24. 5. 1997, p. 19.
(6) BOE No 303, 19. 12. 1987, p. 37409. Amended, inter alia, by Law 32/1992 of 3 December 1992 (BOE No 291, 4. 12. 1992, p. 41268).
(7) BOE No 20, 23. 1. 1992, p. 2132.
(8) BOE No 262, 30. 10. 1996, p. 32538.
(9) Tarifica study implemented for CEC - DG XIII.
(10) A direct comparison of the telephony tariffs of TelefΓ³nica with the Community average (which is not a weighted average) would not be appropriate, given that the tariff structures of the 15 Community telecommunications organizations are still widely divergent and in addition, given that they are currently in the process of rebalancing tariffs. A comparison with British Telecom was also made in Decisions 97/114/EC with respect to Ireland, 97/310/EC with respect to Portugal and Decision 97/568/EC with respect to Luxembourg (OJ L 234, 26. 8. 1997, p. 7 - Decision not published at the time of notification).
(11) OJ L 165, 19. 6. 1992, p. 27.
(12) OJ L 321, 30. 12. 1995, p. 6.
(13) Internal data CEC DG XIII.
(14) OJ L 117, 7. 5. 1997, p. 15.
