Article 2
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.