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96/546/EC: Commission Decision of 17 July 1996 relating to… Article 2

96/546/EC: Commission Decision of 17 July 1996 relating to… Article 2

Article 2

Pursuant to Article 85 (3) of the EC Treaty and Article 53 (3) of the EEA Agreement and subject to Articles 3, 4 and 5 of this Decision, the provisions of Article 85 (1) of the EC Treaty and Article 53 (1) of the EEA Agreement are hereby declared inapplicable to the integration into Atlas of the German and French public packet-switched data networks, provided that only networks providing packet-switched data communications services using the X.25, Frame Relay, SNA or Internet protocols shall be integrated, from the date on which both Germany and France have: (a) removed all legal prohibitions on entities other than DT and FT and their subsidiaries to: (i) build, own or control both national and international telecommunications infrastructure and use such infrastructure to provide any telecommunications service, and (ii) provide a national and international voice telephony service; and (b) granted and made effective at least two licences to applicants other than DT and FT for (i) the construction or ownership, and control, of telecommunications infrastructure and either separately or in combination, (ii) the provision of national and international voice telephony services, provided that such licences provide two suitable alternatives to DT and FT respectively to serve all or a substantial part of the territory of Germany and France, until the expiry of the five-year period specified in Article 1.

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