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To: limtex who wrote (6406)	2/9/2000 11:07:00 PM
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Verrue Lists Trimmed Down Telecoms Directives By Vineeta Shetty at Communications International 09 February 2000 Robert Verrue, director general of DG XIII of the European Commission has specified five directives that he proposes would replace the existing "complicated toolbox" of 22 telecommunications-related directives. General Principles, which would encompass access-based and cost-based principles of Open Network Protocol. Cost-based access and interconnection. Protection of private data in e-commerce Universal service Licensing, general authorisation, rather than individual licensing. "Personally, I regret that the last one will not include pan-European licensing," Verrue told Communications International at a press colloquium hosted by Deutsche Telekom in Berlin, Germany. The existing telecommunications regulatory framework is undergoing review and the commission has issued a 25-page document for public consultation which closes on February 15. "We have had more reaction on this than on the convergence issue," Verrue said. The results of the consultation will be officially presented to the European Parliament on May 2, although a synthesis will be available to European telecommunications ministers at the end of March. Verrue said that in parallel, sometime in late May or beginning of June, these five proposals would also be tabled before various European governments. In some cases, as with the French presidency, the directives would be presented together, not separately.