10. Calls on the Commission to produce as quickly as possible guidelines for network infrastructure sharing throughout the European Union, which will facilitate a more rapid and harmonised roll out of 3G networks and services;

– having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled 'Towards the Full Roll-Out of Third Generation Mobile Communications' (COM(2002) 301 - C5-0525/2002),

takes note of the Commission's report on the remaining barriers to the roll-out of third-generation mobile communications networks and services and calls upon all relevant administrations to act to overcome difficulties encountered in the physical deployment of networks; it also invites the Commission to report back to the Copenhagen European Council on this issue and on the remaining barriers to open platforms in digital television and third-generation mobile communications, on the development of eCommerce and eGovernment and on the role that electronic identification and authentification systems could play in this context;

invites the Commission to present at the Seville European Council a comprehensive analysis of remaining barriers to: the achievement of widespread access to new services and applications of the information society through open platforms in digital television and 3G mobile communications, the full roll-out of 3G mobile communications, the development of eCommerce and eGovernment and the role that national electronic identification and authentication systems could play in this context.

calls upon the Commission and the Member States to foster the use of open platforms to provide freedom of choice to citizens for access to applications and services of the Information Society, notably through digital television, 3G mobile and other platforms that technological convergence may provide in the future; and to sustain their efforts towards the introduction of 3G mobile communications;

the Commission and the Member States to foster the use of open platforms (digital television, third-generation mobile communications (3G) and other platforms) to provide freedom of choice to citizens for access to applications and services of the Information Society, and to sustain their efforts towards the introduction of 3G mobile communications;