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395 L 0062: Directive 95/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1995 on the application of open network provision (ONP) to voice telephony (OJ L 321, 30.12.1995, p. 6). The provisions of the Directive shall, for the purposes of the present Agreement, be read with the following adaptations: (a) (i) Liechtenstein shall take the measures necessary to comply with this Directivem before 1 January 1998; (ii) at the end of the transitional period for Liechtenstein set out in (i), the EEA Joint Committee shall review the situation with a view to possible adjustments required in order to take account of the arrangements for the operation of the fixed public telephone network in Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein nevertheless undertakes to exercise in the mean time its best efforts to ensure that the provisions of this Directive are observed within its territory to the greatest extent possible; (b) regarding the EFTA States, the reference in Article 27(a) to the Treaty shall be deemed to be a reference to the Agreement between the EFTA States on the establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice; (c) the following shall be added to Article 27(2): (a) if the procedure provided for in paragraphs 3 and 4 is invoked in a case involving one or more national regulatory authorities of EFTA States, the notification shall be made to the national regulatory authority and the EFTA Surveillance Authority; (b) if the procedure provided for in paragraphs 3 and 4 is invoked in a case involving two or more national regulatory authorities of both an EU and an EFTA State, the notification shall be made to the national regulatory authorities, the Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority; (d) the following shall be added to Article 27(3): (a) where, following a notification based on paragraph 2(a), the national regulatory authority or the EFTA Surveillance Authority finds that there is a case for further examination, it can refer it to a working group composed of representatives of EFTA States and their regulatory authorities concerned and of a representative of the EFTA Surveillance Authority acting as chairman of the working group. The chairman, if he is satisfied that all reasonable steps have been taken at the national level, shall initiate a procedure following, mutatis mutandis, the requirements as set out in Article 27(4); (b) where, following notification based on paragraph 2(b), a national regulatory authority, the Commission or the EFTA Surveillance Authority finds that there is a case for further examination, it can refer it to the EEA Joint Committee. The EEA Joint Committee can, if it is satisfied that all reasonable steps have been taken at the national level, set up a working group composed of an equal number of representatives of EFTA States and their national regulatory authorities concerned on the one hand, and of an equal number of representatives of the EU Member States and their national regulatory authorities concerned on the other hand, as well as of representatives of the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the Commission. The EEA Joint Committee shall also appoint the chairman of the working group. The working group shall, mutatis mutandis, follow the procedural requirements as set out in Article 27(4).’