Telecommunications : competitive environment (amend. Directives 90/387/EEC, 92/44/EEC)

In adopting the recommendation for second reading by Mr Fernand HERMAN (PPE, B), Parliament approved the common position of the Council on the amendment of certain directives for the purpose of adapting telecommunications to future liberalization. The amendments adopted by Parliament are aimed, inter alia, at: - tightening up the definition of leased lines and ensuring number portability; - clarifying the rules governing the financing of universal service; the Commission is called upon to submit, before 31 January 1997, a draft Directive on the costing and financing of universal service; - examining the possibility of establishing a European Regulatory Authority. �