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Article: TELECOMMUNICATIONS : COMMISSION REVISES TELECOMS PACKAGE.
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- December 2, 2009
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The European Commission published, on 7 November, a modified version of its telecoms package to take into account, in this vast reform of rules framing electronic communications in the EU, the European Parliament's amendments (first reading) as well as the debates underway in the Council. On 27 November, the French EU Presidency reached a political agreement on the basis of a text drafted in the Council, and not of this modified proposal, which would have arrived "too late", according to member states.
This is also the opportunity for the EU executive to restate its ambitions for an internal market for telecoms, currently thought to be too fragmented. The mix ...