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Regulation 3 Extension of principal Regulations in respect of European Economic Area

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

This regulation shall have effect for the purposes of extending the principal Regulations in respect of their application in respect of private circuits the network termination points of which are both or all situated within the European Economic Areaf1.

(2)

The principal Regulations are hereby amended as follows—

(a)

in regulation 2—

(i)

the definition of “the Community” shall be deleted;

(ii)

after the definition of “the Directive” there shall be inserted the following definition—

  • ““the EEA” means the European Economic Area, and an “EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement, but

    1. (a)

      until the EEA Agreement comes into force in relation to Liechtenstein—

      1. (i)

        the EEA shall not include Liechtenstein; and

      2. (ii)

        Liechtenstein shall not be taken to be an EEA State; and

    2. (b)

      for the purposes of the definition of “EEA State”, the Åland Islands (being not part of the EEA) shall not be taken to be part of Finland,

    and in this definition, “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;”; and

(b)

throughout the Regulations—

(i)

for a reference to “the Community” (including such a reference in the term “intra-Community”) there shall on each occasion that it occurs be substituted a reference to the EEA; and

(ii)

for a reference to “member State” (save in the reference to Council Directive 91/263/EECf2 in paragraph E of Schedule 1) there shall on each occasion that it occurs be substituted a reference to “EEA State”.

(3)

In the modifications to the BT licence, the Hull licence and the Mercury licence made by regulations 4, 5 and 6 respectively of the principal Regulations, for a reference to the “European Economic Community” there shall on each occasion that it occurs be substituted a reference to the “European Economic Area”, and the modifications made by this paragraph shall have effect as if they were made under section 12 of the 1984 Act by the Director.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

The European Economic Area Agreement came into force on 1st January 1994 (see Decision 94/1 ECSC, EC; OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p. 1). Decision No. 7/94 of the EEA Committee (OJ No. L160, 28.6.94, p. 1; the “Interim Acquis”) in Annex 10 (p. 76) extended Directive 92/44/EEC to the European Economic Area (with certain adaptations which are not relevant for the purposes of these Regulations).

f2

OJ No. L128, 23.5.91, p. 1.