BELGIUM – ECJ
October 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNBELGIUM has failed to comply with the universal service and interoperability provisions of the 1997 EU directive on telecommunications interconnection directive, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It has found in favour of the European Commission which brought a case against the Belgian government, charging that it had failed to introduce rules to monitor and verify compliance by telecommunication operators with mandatory cost accounting systems, as required by the directive. It was also in breach of a requirement that its national regulator ...
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