Impact Study: UNESCO-Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals

2. Where an individual licence is required, the following shall be made publicly available: (a) all the licensing criteria and the period of time normally required to reach a decision concerning an application for a licence, and (b) the terms and conditions of individual licences. 3. The reasons for the denial of an individual licence shall be made known to the applicant upon request and an appeal procedure through an independent body will be established at the level of the EC Party and of the Signatory CARIFORUM States. Such a procedure will be transparent, non- discriminatory, and based on objective criteria. Article 93 Independence of the regulatory bodies The regulatory bodies shall be legally separate from, and not accountable to, any supplier of courier services. The decisions of and the procedures used by the regulatory bodies shall be impartial with respect to all market participants.

of telecommunications mentioned in this Chapter; (c) “essential telecommunications facilities”mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network and service that: (i) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a single or limited number of suppliers; and (ii) cannot feasibly be economically or technically substituted in order to provide a service; (d) a “major supplier” in the telecommunications sector is a supplier which has the ability to materially affect the terms of participation (having regard to price and supply) in the relevant market for telecommunications services as a result of control over essential facilities or the use of its position in the market; (e) “interconnection”means linking with suppliers providing public telecommunications transport networks or services in order to allow the users of one supplier to communicate with users of another supplier and to access services provided by another supplier; (f) “universal service”means the set of services of specified quality that must be made available to all users in the territory of the EC Party and of the Signatory CARIFORUM States regardless of their geographical location and at an affordable price; its scope and implementation are decided by the EC Party and by the Signatory CARIFORUM States. 2. This Section sets out the principles of the regulatory framework for the following telecommunications services, other than broadcasting, liberalised pursuant to Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of this Title: voice telephone services, packet-switched data

Section 4 Telecommunications services Article 94 Definitions and scope 1. For the purpose of this Title:

(a) “telecommunications services”means all services consisting of the transmission and reception of electro-magnetic signals and do not cover the economic activity consisting of the provision of content which requires telecommunications for its transport; (b) a “regulatory authority” in the telecommunications sector means the body or bodies charged with the regulation

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