Part 2Networks, services and the radio spectrum
Chapter 1Electronic communications networks and services
SMP services conditions: subject-matter
I1I292Conditions about leased lines
1
This section applies where—
a
OFCOM have made a determination that a person (“the dominant provider”) has significant market power in an identified services market; and
b
it appears to OFCOM that the market in relation to which that market power determination has been made is a market relating to the provision of any such leased lines as are for the time being identified by the European Commission in the List of Standards published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
2
It shall be the duty of OFCOM to set, and to apply to the dominant provider, such SMP conditions authorised by this section as they consider appropriate.
3
The SMP conditions authorised by this section are conditions for applying, so far as required by the provisions for the time being contained in Annex VII to the Universal Service Directive, the principles of non-discrimination, cost orientation and transparency in relation to the leased lines identified as mentioned in subsection (1).
4
In this section “leased line” means an electronic communications service the provision of which consists in the reservation of a fixed amount of transmission capacity between fixed points on the same or different electronic communications networks.