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Memorandum of understanding on European telecommunication standards (normes Europeennes de telecommunications, net's) for terminal equipment. Agreed at the meeting of Directors-General of CEPT Administrations (Copenhagen, 15 November 1985) convened in accordance with the decision of the meeting of the CEPT Telecommunications Commission (Nice, June 1985). This Memorandum of Understanding, the existence of which has been recognised by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), is open for adhesion to any member of CEPT in whose country legislation exists directly or via international treaty permitting European Telecommunication Standards (NET's) selected from CEPT technical recommendations on terminal equipments to be given legal force, such that a terminal equipment approved as conforming to a NET in accordance with the appropriate national or multilateral procedures is permitted access to the market and connection to the appropriate public telecommunication network in the country of that CEPT member. The signatories, Recognising: that the quickening pace of technological change and the emergence of new services require, in order to maintain the quality of the information exchange system in Europe, an improvement of harmonised specifications for telecommunications equipment; that the conditions of access of terminal equipment to the networks are laid down on one hand in the legal provisions in force in each country, and on the other hand in the technical and administrative procedures set up by the Administrations; that, therefore, the improvement of harmonisation must also be channelled through both the legal provisions and the technical and administrative procedures, with the effect of giving CEPT Administrations a central role in the establishment of a telecommunications standards policy at the European level; that the governments of the EC have expressed for their part their determination to take the necessary steps to harmonise, within the Community, the legal provisions regarding access to the market, and to the networks, of telecommunication terminal equipment, and that a Council Directive, concerning the initial stage of implementation of the mutual recognition of type approval for telecommunication terminal equipment to be approved at the same time as the coming into force of this MOU allows in particular all CEPT Administrations whose countries are members of the EC to enter into this MOU; that there is a need to seek a wider application of CEPT technical recommendations by CEPT Administrations, and a need to distinguish between the creation and adoption of a technical recommendation on the one hand and its application on the other hand; that CEPT work schedule for new technical recommendations must respond amongst other things to the needs generated by the implementation of the EC Directive mentioned in the Annex, Article 2 (iii) and the EFTA guidelines for standardisation, see EFTA/CJC.SR. 7/84 with appropriate complements; that the procedures set up by the present MOU, to improve the conditions of application of CEPT technical recommendations, do not affect the normal functioning of CEPT; Resolve: to support the present method of working within CEPT for the creation and adoption of technical recommendations. In particular, that these activities should be pursued by all CEPT Administrations on an equal basis and that adoption of technical recommendations shall be by consensus with the very minimum of alternatives being permitted in the technical recommendations in order to secure timely adoption by consensus and to aim for recommendations free of ambiguity and scope for differing interpretations; to establish, out of CEPT technical recommendations for terminal equipment, European Telecommunication Standards (NET's) (1), and initiate the means of giving them sufficient mandatory force through the procedure given in the Annex to this MOU; to use European Telecommunication Standards (NET's) or part or parts thereoff applying in a country for type approval purposes in the purchasing specifications of terminal equipment by Public Telecommunication Operators (2); to permit the parties entitled by national regulation to own the relevant telecommunication terminal equipments to connect to any of its relevant telecommunications networks telecommunication terminal equipment approved in accordance with national or multilateral procedures (eg EC) as conforming to the appropriate European Telecommunication Standard (NET); to form within CEPT, an autonomous Technical Recommendations Application Committee, in which each signatory of the present MOU shall be represented to constitute the body which will be responsible for the implementation of the MOU. The appropriate authorities ensure in countries where private telecommunication operators exist that no distortion of competition would be introduced because of the application of European Telecommunication Standards (NET's) either through the Directive mentioned in the Annex, Article 2 (iii) or in countries where the Directive does not apply through appropriate national regulations.