Press Release:Telecoms: Lithuania withdraws proposed regulatory measures on network access market

On 16 March 2010 the Lithuanian Authority, Ryšių reguliavimo tarnyba (RRT), informed the European Commission that it was withdrawing its proposed measure on network infrastructure access markets. These access services are used by alternative operators to connect their customers to telecoms services like telephone and internet. The Commission had in early March 2010 raised serious doubts about the compatibility of the proposed regulation with the principles of EU competition law and EU's telecoms rules and had launched a two month investigation (see IP/10/266). RRT has now indicated to the Commission that it intends to revise its findings and notify the revised measure to the Commission.