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"Regulation (EC) No 2887/2000" [2004] ELECD 71; in Buigues, A. Pierre; Rey, Patrick (eds), "The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation in Telecommunications" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004)

Book Title: The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation in Telecommunications

Editor(s): Buigues, A. Pierre; Rey, Patrick

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843765103

Section Title: Regulation (EC) No 2887/2000

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

L 336/4 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 30.12.2000




I
(Acts whose publication is obligatory)




REGULATION (EC) No 2887/2000 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 18 December 2000
on unbundled access to the local loop
(Text with EEA relevance)


THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE (3) The `local loop' is the physical twisted metallic pair
EUROPEAN UNION, circuit in the fixed public telephone network connecting
the network termination point at the subscriber's prem-
ises to the main distribution frame or equivalent facility.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European As noted in the Commission's Fifth Report on the imple-
Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof, mentation of the telecommunications regulatory
package, the local access network remains one of the
least competitive segments of the liberalised telecommu-
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, nications market. New entrants do not have widespread
alternative network infrastructures and are unable, with
traditional technologies, to match the economies of scale
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social and the coverage of operators designated as having
Committee (1), significant market power in the fixed public telephone
network market. This results from the fact that these
operators rolled out their metallic local access infrastruc-
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
tures over significant periods of time protected by
251 of the Treaty (2),
exclusive rights and were able to fund investment costs
through monopoly ...