Application of open network provision (ONP) to voice telephony

The report by Mrs Mel REAS was adopted by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. She recommended that the new Commission proposal be approved. It was important to remember that the Commission had already submitted a proposal on this issue. However, after a very long wrestle with the Council, the Conciliation Committee had not managed to agree on a joint text and in July 1994 the EP had rejected the Council's common position. �