Clause 85 - Conditions about network access in
Communications Bill
Public Bill Committees, 19 December 2002, 8:55 am
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
I rise to endorse the questions asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale (Mr. Greenway). More particularly, there is a risk that the Minister will say that the Government have reflected in the Bill the fact that the directives, in particular, article 8(3) of the access directive, give us the opportunity to go to the Commission in exceptional circumstances. Will he track back a bit to the point at which the Council
agreed the directive? Clearly, it anticipated exceptional circumstances in which the network access conditions specified in the directive would not necessarily suffice to secure access or interconnection. Does the Minister know of an example that the Commission had in mind when providing the exceptional ability to go beyond what is specified in the directive?