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Deatailed information about the Telecom Initiative
can be found on:
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Explanation
of the contents |
| Background info |
Offers a summary of the Telecom Initiative (TI) |
| Meetings |
Includes the agendas and reports of the TI meetings held, listed
chronologically ("yymmdd-Short Title") |
| CROs |
List of the Common Regulatory Objectives (CROs) drafts |
| Publications |
Formal documents for information, including links to official documents
in other areas |
| Documents |
Important documents to be used as reference or relevant information |
Main
goals of "Telecom Initiative"
 facilitate
a dialog among countries in order to converge their regulatory regimes
facilitate the free circulation of products
starting by the most common user friendly ones
Advantages
of "Telecom Inititive"
it
allows a technology by technology approach
makes possible an identification of specific difficulties to be solved
allows a solid step by step acceptance by Authorities and the market forces in general
products are amongst the most relevant for Telecom consumer, e.g. GSM, PSTN/POTS
"Telecom Initiative" covers basic regulator's needs
Users will have a wider set of products available at lowest price with following safeguards:
 Products are safe for consumers
Different type of equipment can coexit
Scarce resources are used efficiently
Essential
services can be adequately protected
General development of the society (quicker development)
Local/Smaller companies can approach a much wider market ("borderless")
Who should participate?
countries willing to implement
WTO principles on TBT and
interested work closer
together in the area of Telecom
Information about "Telecom Initiative"
http://www.unece.org/trade/wp6/sectoral.htm
The
base for the Telecom Initiative is "UNECE Recommendation
L" [download]
How to proceed?
Read on the existing draft proposals CROS
(Common Regulatory Objectives)
See minutes of the last meeting(s) and progress report(s)
Contact UNECE
Secretariat:
Mr. Serguei Kouzmine,
Tel.: +41-22-917 2771 or Fax: +41-22-917 0037
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