Mr. Speaker, since March 8 was International Women's Day, and March 20 the International Day of La Francophonie, I am extremely proud to rise today to point out that it is 21 years since Réseau action femmes gave out its first Réseau awards. This political action network works to improve the situation of francophone women in Manitoba.

having an approach based on achieving prices and conditions for roaming customers similar to the competitive prices and conditions prevailing within the market of the visited network, including the possibility for the customer to obtain different prices from different operators in the market of the visited network,

The excessive retail charges are resulting from high wholesale charges levied by the foreign host network operator and also, in many cases, from high retail mark-ups charged by the customer's own network operator.

The first is the price paid by mobile operators to terminate calls on fixed networks; although decreasing, these prices are still much higher than the prices for fixed-fixed network interconnection.

Mr Van Miert's departments will focus on the level of prices that competitors would be required to pay in order to acquire the technological resources needed to launch a system in competition with GEN: - the competitors would undoubtedly not have the option of supplying large- scale infrastructures and of using the profits thus made to finance the supply of non-reserved services such as international network circuits; - potential competitors, in particular suppliers of alternative infrastructures, will have to pay the official price to buy the equipment needed to launch systems in competition with GEN. On the other hand, traditional tel ...[+++]ecoms operators have always used each other's equipment at a substantially lower price, on the basis of reciprocity.

Specific refusal to supply products intended for export; 2. Prices imposed on UK traders with a view to preventing them from remaining competitive in export markets; 3. Buying in parallel exports at low prices with a view to preventing them from exerting pressure on the prices charged by Dunlop Slazenger International's exclusive distribution network; 4. The marking of products with a view to establishing their origin and final destination; 5. Exclusivity for the DSI distributors in the use of the Dutch Tennis Federation's quality mark.