RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONS/C/W/132
14 July 2000
(00-3078)
Council for Trade in Services Original:  French
MOROCCO
Schedule of Commitments on Basic Telecommunications
Certification
The Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations Office and other International
Organizations at Geneva presents its compliments to the World Trade Organization and has the
honour to inform it of the acceptance by the Kingdom of Morocco of the regulatory annex to the
WTO Basic Telecommunication Agreement.
The Moroccan Government has submitted the attached draft schedule of commitments on
basic telecommunications to the WTO with the reque st that appropriate arrangements should be made
to incorporate the draft in the schedule of specific commitments of Morocco under the General
Agreement on Trade in Services in substitution (GATS/SC/57/Suppl.2).
In this respect, it should be noted that the examination of the provisions of that Annex, which
forms part of the WTO Basic Telecommunication Agreement, shows no incompatibility with the
provisions of Law 24-96 on Posts and Telecommunications.
If no objection is communicated to the Secretariat within 90 days from the date of this
communication, the schedule of commitments on basic telecommunications attached herewith will be
deemed to form an integral part of Morocco's schedule of specific commitments under GATS.
The present draft schedule will be submitted to the Council for Trade in Services for
consideration at its next meeting.S/C/W/132
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WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONGATS/SC/57/Suppl.2/Rev.1
Trade in Services Original:  French
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.S/C/W/132
Page 3MOROCCO - 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 the
Government of the Kingdom of
Morocco.
(Not including the broadcastingof radio and televisionprogrammes for the generalpublic)
(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 of
IAM:  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
                                                     
1 IAM:  Itissalat Al-Maghrib.S/C/W/132
Page 4 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
(b) Packet-switched data
transmission services
(o) Frame relaying services(1) Commercial presence required:
only operators that already have
a commercial presence may alsooffer services under mode 1.
(2) None
(3) Subject to an establishment and
operating licence if the operatorinstalls his own transmissioninfrastructure
Subject to declaration if
transmission capacity is leased to
other operators
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in
the horizontal section(1) None
(2) None
(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
a commercial presence may also
offer services under mode 1.
(2) None(3) Reserved for operators selected
by public tendering procedure, in
accordance with ANRT
2
specifications
Subject to an operating and
establishment licence(1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
                                                     
2 Agence nationale de réglementation des télécommunications:  National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency, newly established f or the purpose of regulating
the sector.S/C/W/132
Page 5Modes 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
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the
horizontal section
(g) Private leased circuit services (1) Commercial presence required:  only
operators that already have acommercial presence may also offerservices 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 commitmentsS/C/W/132
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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.S/C/W/132
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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:S/C/W/132
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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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