1. Where a licensing Member State considers that there is a serious risk that a recipient certified in accordance with Article 9 in another Member State will not comply with a condition attached to a general transfer licence, or where a licensing Member State considers that public policy, public security or its essential security interests could be affected, it shall inform that other Member State and request verification of the situation.

They claim that the commercial broadcasters have been entrusted with the service of general economic interest by means of the attribution of the digital terrestrial broadcasting licences, and accordingly they are obliged to broadcast their programmes to the public.

The Regulation sets out a mechanism in line with the WTO General Council Decision of August 2003 so that companies in the EU can apply for a licence to manufacture, without the authorisation of the patent holder, pharmaceutical products for export to countries in need of medicines and facing public health problems.

The worsening of the actual general government deficit in the euro area last year to 1.3 % of GDP from 0.8 % in 2000 (excluding UMTS licenses) conceal different national situations.

The former filed a complaint with the Commission's Directorate General for competition in April 1995 after several unsucessful attempts to obtain a licence for a broadband telecommunications network based on SDH (Synchronous digital hierarchy) technology, which would allow the transfer of data between 36 different sites of the German public television broadcaster ARD.

When it adopted its common position, the Council decided to disclose the following statements: (i) Statement on the recital referring to the general principle of open access to networks: "The Council and the Commission note that, according to the conclusions of the G7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, open access should be regulated by a framework preventing the abuse of dominant positions and constituting part of a future comprehensive regulatory framework for information services in a liberalized market structure, comprising competition in the field of services and infrastructures, the supply of universal services, the interconnectability of networks and a fair and effective system for issuing ...[+++]licences" (ii)Statement on the provision whereby Member States shall facilitate the transfer of wide-screen television services already in operation to digital transmission networks open to the public: "The Council TAKES NOTE of the statement made by the Commission during the debate on the adoption of this amendment in the European Parliament, to the effect that it interprets this text as not imposing binding obligations on Member States regarding the transfer of wide- screen television services already in operation to digital transmission networks open to the public and it ENDORSES that interpretation.