WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONGATS/SC/57/Suppl.2/Rev.1
23 July 2002
(02-4053)
Trade in Services
KINGDOM OF MOROCCO
Schedule of Specific Commitments
Supplement 1
Revision
(This is authentic in French only)
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This text completes the telecommunications services section contained in pages 4 to 5 of
document GATS/SC/57.
This document entered into force on 12 October 2000.GATS/SC/57/ Suppl.2/Rev.1
Page 2MOROCCO - SCHEDULE OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS
Modes of supply: (1)  Cross-border (2)  Consumption abroad (3)  Commercial presence (4)  Presence of natural persons
Sector or subsector Limitations on market access Limit ations on national treatm ent Additional commitments
2.C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SERVICESThe annexed reference document
has been adopted by theGovernment of the Kingdom of
Morocco.
(Not including the broadcasting
of radio and televisionprogrammes for the general
public)
(a) Point-to-point voice telephone
services
(d) Telex services
(o) Integrated service data network
(ISDN)(1) Possible through the IAM
telecommunication network.1
(2) None
(3) These services will remain an IAM
monopoly until 31 December 2001.Foreign participation in the capital ofIAM:  unbound.
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section.(1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section.
(b) Packet-switched data
transmission services(1) Commercial presence required:  only
operators that already have a
commercial presence may also offer
services under mode 1.(1) None
(2) None (2) None
                                                     
1 IAM:  Itissalat Al-Maghrib.GATS/SC/57/ Suppl.2/Rev.1
Page 3Modes of supply: (1)  Cross-border (2)  Consumption abroad (3)  Commercial presence (4)  Presence of natural persons
Sector or subsector Limitations on market access Limit ations on national treatm ent Additional commitments
(o) Frame relaying services (3) Subject to an establishment and
operating licence if the operator
installs his own transmission
infrastructure.Subject to declaration if transmissioncapacity is leased to other operators.
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section.(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section.
(o) Mobile telephone services
(o) Paging services(o) PCS (Personal Communications
Services)
(o) Mobile data transmission
services(1) Commercial presence required:  only
operators that already have acommercial presence may also offerservices under mode 1.
(2) None
(3) Reserved for operators selected by
public tendering procedure, inaccordance with ANRT
2
specifications.Subject to an operating and
establishment licence.(1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section.(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section.
                                                     
2 Agence nationale de réglementation des télécommunications:  National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency, newly established f or the purpose of regulating the
sector.GATS/SC/57/ Suppl.2/Rev.1
Page 4Modes of supply: (1)  Cross-border (2)  Consumption abroad (3)  Commercial presence (4)  Presence of natural persons
Sector or subsector Limitations on market access Limit ations on national treatm ent Additional commitments
(g) Private leased circuit services(1) Commercial presence required:  only
operators that already have a
commercial presence may also offer
services under mode 1.
(2) Necessary utilization of available
capacities of existing publictelecommunication networks
(3) None
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal commitments.(1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal commitments.GATS/SC/57/S uppl.2/Rev.1
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REFERENCE DOCUMENT
Scope
The following are definitions and principles on the regulatory framework for the basic
telecommunications services.
Definitions
User means service consumer and service suppliers.
Essential facilities mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network and
service that:
(a) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a single or limited number of suppliers;
and
(b) cannot feasibly be economically or technically substituted in order to provide a
service.
A major supplier is a supplier which has the ability to materially affect the terms of
participation (having regard to price and supply) in the relevant market for basic telecommunications
services as a result of:
(a) control over essential facilities;  or(b) use of its position in the market.
1. Competitive safeguards
1.1 Prevention of anti-competitive practices in telecommunications
Appropriate measures shall be maintained for the purpose of preventing suppliers who, alone
or together, are a major supplier from engaging in or continuing anti-competitive practices.
1.2 Safeguards
The anti-competitive practices referred to above shall include in particular:
(a) engaging in anti-competitive cross-subsidization;
(b) using information obtained from competitors with anti-competitive results;  and(c) not making available to other services suppliers on a timely basis technical
information about essential facilities and commercially relevant information which
are necessary for them to provide services, in the case of specific commitments.
2. Interconnection
2.1 This section applies to linking with suppliers providing public telecommunications transport
networks or services in order to allow the users of one supplier to communicate with users of another
supplier and to access services provided by another supplier.GATS/SC/57/S uppl.2/Rev.1
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2.2 Interconnection to be ensured
Within the limits of permitted market access, interconnection with a major supplier will be
ensured at any technically feasible point in th e network.  Such interconnection is provided:
(a) under non-discriminatory terms, conditions (including technical standards and
specifications) and rates and of a quality no less favourable than that provided for its
own like services or for like services of non-affiliated service suppliers or for its
subsidiaries or other affiliates;
(b) in a timely fashion, on terms, conditions (including technical standards and
specifications) and cost-oriented rates that are transparent, reasonable, having regard
to economic feasibility, and sufficiently unbundled so that the supplier need not payfor network components or facilities that it does not require for the service to be
provided;  and
(c) upon request, at points in addition to the network termination points offered to the
majority of users, subject to charges that reflect the cost of construction of necessaryadditional facilities.
2.3 Public availability of the procedures for interconnection negotiations
The procedures applicable for interconnection to a major supplier will be made publicly
available.
2.4 Transparency of interconnection arrangements
It is ensured that a major supplier will make publicly available either its interconnection
agreements or a reference interconnection offer.
2.5 Interconnection:  dispute settlement
A service supplier requesting interconnection with a major supplier will have recourse, either:(a) at any time;  or(b) after a reasonable period of time which has been made publicly known.
to an independent domestic body, which may be a regulatory body as referred to in paragraph 5
below, to resolve disputes regarding appropriate terms, conditions and rates for interconnection withina reasonable period of time, to the extent that these have not been established previously.
3. Universal service
Any Member has the right to define the kind of universal service obligation it wishes to
maintain.  Such obligations will not be regarded as anti-competitive per se, provided they are
administered in a transparent, non-discriminatory and competitively neutral manner and are not more
burdensome than necessary for the kind of universal service defined by the Member.
4. Public availability of licensing criteria
Where a licence is required, the following will be made publicly available:GATS/SC/57/S uppl.2/Rev.1
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(a) all the licensing criteria and the period of time normally required to reach a decision
concerning an application for a licence;  and
(b) the terms and conditions of individual licences.The reasons for the denial of a licence will be made known to the applicant upon request.
5. Independent regulators
The regulatory body is separate from, and not accountable to, any supplier of basic
telecommunications services.  The decisions of and the procedures used by regulators shall be
impartial with respect to all market participants.
6. Allocation and use of scarce resources
Any procedures for the allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, numbers
and rights of way, will be carried out in an objective, timely, transparent and non-discriminatory
manner.  The current state of allocated frequency bands will be made publicly available, but detailedidentification of frequencies allocated for specific government uses is not required.
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