General authorizations and individual licences in the field of telecommunications services (common framework)

The Economic and Social Committee welcomes the Commission proposal and restates its view that licence award procedures should be as streamlined and straightforward as possible. The Committee believes that general and individual authorization procedures must comply with public interest and public service objectives, and it supports the possibility of introducing specific conditions which may attach to authorizations granted to operators wishing to access public networks. In any case, the categories of rights and obligations for authorizations must be balanced, without unnecessary obligations being imposed on new market operators.�