Traduction de «cellular geographic service area » (Anglais → Français) :

However, bearing in mind the different ratio legis behind these provisions, it should be clarified that the notion of exclusive rights does not need to have the same meaning in the two contexts. It should thus be clarified that an entity, which has won the exclusive right to provide a given service in a given geographic area following a procedure based on objective criteria for which adequate transparency has been ensured would not, if a private body, be a contracting entity itself, but would, nevertheless, be the only entity that could provide the service concerned in that area ...[+++].

In the course of the deliberations, departure from the idea of liberalisation in favour of a gradual, rather cautious opening of the postal market for letters weighing less than 50 grammes became increasingly apparent. This is reflected in the compromise date for the entry into force of the directive, specifically in the case of new Member States and countries with small populations, small geographical areas and public service clauses.

The Commission has found that the aid granted is compatible with the EU rules on State aid (Art. 87 (3) (c) of the EC Treaty), since the subsidies are provided only to the extent necessary to enable and develop the use of broadband services in geographically disadvantaged areas of Spain.

16. Regards the distinction between services of general interest and services of general economic interest as irrelevant for the purpose of striking a balance between general interest activities and competition law: for example, this distinction is often difficult to apply in the social services sector which requires special treatment , as a large number of social services, or some of the activities of service providers may be regarded as being economic in nature and stresses the great diversity of the various methods of organising SGIs (for example, the co-existence of direct public management and private management in the public-servic ...[+++]e broadcasting sector helps safeguard media pluralism, democracy and cultural diversity; by the same token, the legislation should take account of the specific characteristics of non-profit making charitable, cultural or social associations); urges the Commission, therefore, not to base its policy on SIGs on that distinction, and to give further thought to a classification taking particular account of the nature of the activities and the geographical area in which they are carried out, including the European area;

Since ports are made up of limited geographical areas, access to the market may, in certain cases, on grounds of economic efficiency inter alia, be numerically restricted on the basis of capacity and available-space constraints, traffic-related safety constraints, the profitability of the service provider, public service obligations of the service provider or of the managing body of the port, local, national or international environmental regulations, or the specific or substantiated economic ...[+++]needs of the port or the managing body of the port . In such cases it may therefore be necessary to limit the number of authorised providers of port services.

As regards new electronic data transmission services, the Commission stresses that according to the undertakings given, the first phase of a pan-European integrated services digital network should be brought into service in 1993 on the basis of genuinely European standards, and that frequencies should be reserved throughout the Community for facilitating cellular telephone, digital cordless telephone and radiopaging services, areas in which the dispar ...[+++]ities between national systems are preventing industry from benefiting from the economies of scale inherent in a large integrated market.