Traduction de «Gérante du service des réservations » (Français → Anglais) :

24. Points out that local authorities must remain free to choose the method of managing the services of general interest for which they are responsible pursuant to the provisions of their respective Member States, and that such discretion includes the right to use direct management or to delegate the management of those services; stresses, however, that where a local authority decides to delegate the management of the services of general interest for which it is responsible, it must be required to use systematic competitive tendering, in accordance with Community law; also stresses that the entities managing services of general interes ...[+++]t under a direct management arrangement should not be in a position to take over external markets, outside their territorial area of activity;

Furthermore, the Directive harmonised the conditions to finance the provision of such universal services (e.g. definition of services that can be reserved) and the conditions in which non-reserved services can be provided (e.g. using authorisation or licencing systems to impose universal service obligations on operators providing services which are within the scope of the universal service and the option for Member States to oblige such operators to pay into a compensation fund to cover eventual shortfalls in revenue that the universal service provider might suffer as a result of the extra costs imposed by its universal service obligatio ...[+++]ns).

It is appropriate in the light of the complaints which have been raised against certain incumbent operators in recent years to provide for Member States to adopt rules to ensure that universal service providers do not cross-subsidise services outside the reserved area by means of revenues from services in the reserved area, except where it is shown to be strictly necessary to fulfil specific universal service obligations.

–provision of a univeral postal service in the Community; –the criteria defining the services which may be reserved for universal service providers and the conditions governing the provision of non-reserved services; –tariff principles and transparency of accounts for universal service provision; –the fixing of quality standards for universal service provision and the setting-up of a system to ensure compliance with those standards; –the harmonization of technical standards; –the creation of independent national regulatory authorities.

The universal service providers shall keep separate accounts within their internal accounting systems at least for each of the services within the reserved sector on the one hand and for the non-reserved services on the other.

This was because there was a risk that they would result in cross- subsidization between those services reserved to the telecommunications organizations ("reserved services") and those - such as data transmission - open to free competition ("non-reserved services").