Clause 81 - Review of apparatus market identifications and determinations
Communications Bill
Public Bill Committees, 17 December 2002, 6:45 pm
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby, Conservative)
I shall be brief. The clause is similar to the previous one, in that it deals with a review. We discussed apparatus and fixed telephone lines in your absence this morning, Mr. Atkinson, and in the Minister's absence. We mentioned the extraordinary fact that 3 million people still rent telephones, largely from BT. I wonder whether the apparatus market and the review that pertains to it come from the European directives. If so, from what part of them? As far as I can see, the EU directives do not mention apparatus.