Annex I CONTENTS OF AN EETS DOMAIN STATEMENT

An EETS domain statement shall contain the following information:

1. 1..

   A section on the requirements towards EETS Providers which shall include at least the fixed charges imposed on EETS Providers based on the costs for the Toll Charger to provide, operate and maintain an EETS compliant system in its toll domain when such costs are not included in the toll.

   This may include as well provisions on a bank guarantee or equivalent financial instrument, which shall not exceed the average monthly toll transaction amount paid by the EETS Provider for this toll domain. This amount shall be determined on the basis of the total toll transaction amount paid by the EETS Provider for this toll domain the previous year. For new companies the amount shall be based on the expected average monthly toll transactions payable by the EETS Provider for this toll domain according to the number of contracts and average toll per contract estimated in the EETS Provider's business plan.

2. 2..

   A section on procedural conditions, which shall be non-discriminatory and include at least:

   1. (a)

      Toll transaction policy (authorisation parameters, toll context data, black lists etc.);

   2. (b)

      procedures and Service Level Agreement (such as format for communicating toll declaration data, times and periodicity for the transfer of toll declaration data, accepted percentage of missed/erroneous tolls, accuracy of toll declaration data, operational availability performance etc.);

   3. (c)

      Invoicing policy;

   4. (d)

      Payment policy;

   5. (e)

      Commercial conditions, which shall be agreed upon by bilateral negotiations between the Toll Charger and the EETS Provider including service level requirements.