European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services)(Universal Service and Users' Rights) Regulations 2003
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Electronic Communications)(Universal Service and Users' Rights) Regulations 2003.
(2) These Regulations, other than Regulations 7 and 29, come into operation on 25 July 2003.
(3) Regulations 7 and 29 come into operation on the making of these Regulations.
Interpretation
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paragraphs: (1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the definitions as set out in Regulation 2(1) of the Framework Regulations apply.
(2) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires:
“Act of 2002” means the Communications Regulation Act 2002 (No. 20 of 2002;
“designated undertaking” means an undertaking designated under Regulation 7;
“Framework Regulations” means the European Communities (Electronic Communications)(Framework) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 307 of 2003 );
“geographic number” means a number from the national numbering scheme where part of its digit structure contains geographic significance used for routing calls to the physical location of the network termination point;
“Minister” means the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources;
“network termination point” means the physical point at which a subscriber is provided with access to a public communications network; in the case of networks involving switching or routing, the network termination point is identified by means of a specific network address, which may be linked to a subscriber number or name;
“non-geographic number” means a number from the national numbering scheme that is not a geographic number and includes a mobile, freephone and premium rate number;
“publicly available telephone service” means a service available to the public for originating and receiving national and international calls and access to emergency services through a number or numbers in a national or international telephone numbering plan, and in addition may, where relevant, include one or more of the following services: the provision of operator assistance, directory inquiry services, directories provision of public pay phones, provision of service under special terms, provision of special facilities for customers with disabilities or special social needs or the provision of non-geographic services or both;
“public pay telephone” means a telephone available to the general public for the use of which the means of payment may include coins credit cards, debit cards or pre-payment cards, including cards for use with dialling codes;
“public telephone network” means an electronic communications network which is used to provide publicly available telephone services;it supports the transfer between network termination points of speech communications, and also other forms for communication, such as facsimile and data;
“Regulations of 1999” means the European Communities (Voice Telephony and Universal Service) Regulations 1999 ( S.I. No. 71 of 1999 );
“Regulator” means the Commission for Communications Regulation;
“retail market” means a relevant market involving the provision of products or services to end-users;
“Universal Service Directive” means Directive No. 2002/22/EC1 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March, 2002, on universal service and users' rights relating to electronic communications networks and services;
“universal service obligation” means an obligation imposed on an undertaking under Regulation 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 or 9.
(2) A word or expression that is used in these Regulations and is also used in the Universal Service Directive or in the Framework Directive has unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in these Regulations that it has in those Directives.
(3) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears —