Document ID: 32005R1654

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1654/2005
of 10 October 2005
amending Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 laying down public policy rules concerning the implementation and functions of the .eu Top Level Domain and the principles governing registration
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 April 2002 on the implementation of the .eu Top Level Domain (1), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof,
Having consulted the European Registry for Internet domains designated by Commission Decision 2003/375/EC (2),
Whereas:
(1)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 (3) implements Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 by laying down the public policy rules concerning the implementation and functions of the .eu Top Level Domain and the principles governing registration.
(2)
Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 implements the public policy rules concerning geographical concepts by providing for a procedure to permit Member States, candidate countries and all the members of the European Economic Area to request the registration or the reservation of their name by their national governments. That provision does not fully guarantee the geopolitical and linguistic diversity of the European Union and the interest of both Member States and European citizens. This calls for the Commission to amend Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 accordingly.
(3)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Communications Committee established by Article 22(1) of Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive) (4),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 shall be amended as follows:
1.
Article 8 shall be replaced by the following:
‘Article 8
Reservation of names by countries and alpha-2 codes representing countries
1. The list of names set out in the Annex to this Regulation shall only be reserved or registered as second level domain names directly under the .eu TLD by the countries indicated in the list.
2. Alpha-2 codes representing countries shall not be registered as second level domain names directly under the .eu TLD.’;
2.
in Article 12(1), the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:
‘Phased registration shall not start before the requirement of the first paragraph of Article 6 is fulfilled.’;
3.
the Annex to this Regulation is added.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 10 October 2005.

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