CELEX: 51986PC0778
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-23
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION ON THE COORDINATED INTRODUCTION OF THE INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK ( ISDN ) IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

27.1. 87                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No C 20/5
         Amendment to the proposal for a Council recommendation on the coordinated introduction of
                  the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) in the European Community (')
                                                    COM(86) 778 final
         (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of
                                          the EEC Treaty on 22 December 1986)
                                                       (87/C 20/03)
         1. The second recital will be replaced by the following text:
             'Whereas the resources offered by the telecommunications networks should be utilized to
             the full to maintain the Community's worldwide competitiveness in the light of the rapid pace
             of development in the telecommunications sector.'
         2. The fifth recital will be replaced by the following text:
             'Whereas the coordinated policy for the introduction of the ISDN will make possible the
             establishment of a European market in telephone and data-processing terminals capable of
             creating, by virtue of its size, the indispensable development conditions which will enable
             the European telecommunications industries to maintain and increase their share of world
             markets; whereas, if this does not take place, the Community will become dependent in the
             foreseeable future upon imports from third countries in this sector.'
         3. An additional recital will be introduced behind the eighth recital:
             'Whereas the implementation of such policy should pay proper attention to user privacy
             protection.'
         4. Point 1 will be replaced by the following text:
             'That the telecommunications administrations implement the detailed recommendations
             concerning the coordinated introduction of the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
             in the Community, as described in the Annex; the Commission shall provide them with every
             practical assistance in this connection and monitor implementation as to ensure that selection
             of priorities and expedition of the programme as a whole is satisfactorily achieved.
         5. Point 7 will be replaced by the following text:
             'That Member State Governments inform the Commission at the end of each year, from the
             end of 1987, of the measures taken and problems which may be encountered in the course
             of implementing this recommendation. The progress of work will be actively examined by
             the Commission and the Senior Officials Group on Telecommunications set up by the
             Council on 4 November 1983 in order to ascertain whether the priorities and the
             implementation of the programme as a whole is satisfactorily achieved. The progress of
             work will be subject of an annual report from the Commission to the European Parliament.'
         (') OJ No C 157, 24. 6. 1986, p. 3.