Chapter Thirteen - Communications
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Agreement on Internal Trade
September 1994
Page Index
- Article 1300: Application of General Rules
- Article 1301: Scope and Coverage
- Article 1302: Access to and Use of Transport Networks and Services
- Article 1303: Committee on Communications-Related Measures
- Article 1304: Monopolies
- Article 1305: Saskatchewan Provision
- Article 1306: Definitions
Article 1300: Application of General Rules
For greater certainty, Chapter Four (General Rules) applies to this Chapter, except as otherwise provided in this Chapter.
Article 1301: Scope and Coverage
This Chapter applies to measures adopted or maintained by a Party relating to communications services and telecommunications facilities.
Article 1302: Access to and Use of Transport Networks and Services
For the purposes of Article 401 (Reciprocal Non-Discrimination), "treatment" includes access to and use of public telecommunications transport networks and public telecommunications transport services.
Article 1303: Committee on Communications-Related Measures
- The Parties shall establish a Committee on Communications-Related Measures composed of representatives of each Party.
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The Communications Committee shall, among other things:
- monitor the implementation of this Chapter;
- provide a forum for the Parties to consult on issues respecting this Chapter; and
- identify communications-related measures that may require reconciliation and develop consensus on common approaches to and specify schedules and time frames for reconciliation.
Article 1304: Monopolies
Where a Party maintains or designates a monopoly to provide any communications services or telecommunications facilities and the monopoly competes, directly or through an affiliate, in other markets in the provision of communications services or telecommunications facilities, the Party shall ensure that the monopoly does not use its monopoly position to engage in anticompetitive conduct in those other markets, either directly or through its dealings with its affiliates, in a manner that adversely affects another Party.
Article 1305: Saskatchewan Provision
In accordance with the agreement between the Federal Government and the Province of Saskatchewan embodied in Section 133 of the "Telecommunications Act" (Canada), articles 1302 and 1304 do not apply to any Canadian carrier that is an agent of Her Majesty in right of the Province of Saskatchewan, until an Order in Council is made under Section 133. In the interim, the Province of Saskatchewan will continue to reduce the differences between its policies and measures and those of the Federal Government.
Article 1306: Definitions
In this Chapter:
- communications
- means the emission, transmission or reception of intelligence by any wire, cable, radio, optical or other electromagnetic system, or by any similar technical system;
- Communications Committee
- means the Committee established under Article 1303(1);
- communications services
- means services provided by means of telecommunications facilities and includes the provision, in whole or in part, of telecommunications facilities and any related equipment, whether by sale, lease or otherwise;
- telecommunications facilities
- means any facilities, apparatuses or other things used or capable of being used for telecommunications or for any operation directly connected with telecommunications and includes a transmission facility as defined in the "Telecommunications Act" (Canada);
- public telecommunications transport networks
- means public telecommunications infrastructures and systems that permit telecommunications;
- public telecommunications transport services
- means services offered to the public involving the transmission of customer supplied information between two or more points on a public telecommunications transport network without any end-to-end change in the form or content of that information.
