European Communities (Application of Open Network Provision To Voice Telephony) Regulations, 1997
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Application of Open Network Provision to Voice Telephony) Regulations, 1997.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 31st day of October, 1997.
2 Interpretation
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires
"Act of 1983" means the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 (No. 24 of 1983), as amended;
"Commission" means the Commission of the European Communities;
"Company" means Bord Telecom Ãireann;
"customer" means a person who enters into a contract with the Company for the provision of a connection to the fixed public telecommunications network and includes a person who is a licensee under section 111 of the Act of 1983;
"Directive" means Directive No. 95/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1995;
"Director" means the Director of Telecommunications Regulation;
"the Fixed public telecommunications network" means the public switched telecommunications network which is used, inter alia, for the provision of a voice telephony service between network termination points at fixed locations;
"Member State" means a Member State of the European Union;
"Minister" means the Minister for Public Enterprise;
"national numbering scheme" means the scheme which was established by the Minister and is now administered by the Director and which sets out the sequence of numbers or other characters which must be used to route telephony traffic to specific locations on the public telecommunications network;
"network termination point" means all physical connections and their technical access specifications which form part of a telecommunications network and are necessary for access to. and efficient communication through, that network;
"ONP Committee" means the committee created by Article 9(1) of Council Directive 90/387/EEC2 of 28 June 1990;
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"public mobile telephony services" means public mobile telephony services operated in accordance with licences granted pursuant to the provisions of section 111(2) of the Act of 1983:
"public telecommunications network" means a telecommunications network used, inter aha, for the provision of public telecommunications services between network termination points on such network;
"public telecommunications service" means a telecommunications service available to the public,
"telecommunications organisation" means a public or private body to which a Member State grants special or exclusive rights for the provision of a fixed public telecommunications network and, where applicable, voice telephony services,
the Treaty" means the Treaty establishing the European Community;
"user" means a user of the fixed public telecommunications network, and includes a customer;
"voice telephony" means the commercial provision for the public of the direct transport and switching of speech in real-time between public switched network termination points, enabling any user to use equipment connected to such a network termination point in order to communicate with another such termination point.
(2) A word or expression that is used in these Regulations and is also used in the Directive has, except where the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in these Regulations that it has in the Directive.
(3) In these Regulations unless otherwise indicated -