All carriers from 17 countries – 278 companies in total – are banned: Angola, Benin, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon (with the exception of three carriers which operate under restrictions and conditions), Indonesia (with the exception of six carriers from which the restrictions have been fully removed), Kazakhstan (with the exception of one carrier which operates under restrictions and conditions), the Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland and Zambia.

They include operating restrictions aiming to withdraw marginally compliant aircraft from operations at specific airports, as well as operating restrictions of a partial nature, affecting the operation of civil subsonic aeroplanes according to time period (e.g. night-ban).

(e) "Operating restrictions" shall mean noise related action that limits or reduces access of civil subsonic jet aeroplanes to an airport. It includes operating restrictions aimed at the withdrawal from operations of marginally compliant aircraft at specific airports as well as operating restrictions of a partial nature, affecting the operation of civil subsonic aeroplanes according to time period;

The "balanced approach" concept of aircraft noise management comprises four principal elements and requires careful assessment of all different options to mitigate noise, including reduction of aeroplane noise at source, land-use planning and management measures, noise abatement operational procedures and operating restrictions, without prejudice to relevant legal obligations, existing agreements, current laws and established policies.

``146.9 In determining whether the operation of a main line or a segment thereof is required in the public interest, the Agency shall consider all matters that in its opinion are relevant to the public interest, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing (a) the actual losses, if any, that have been incurred by the railway company in the operation of the main line or segment; (b) the alternative transportation facilities available or likely to be available in the area served by the main line or segment, including those proposed to be made available by the applicant, and the ability of those facilities to meet the needs ...[+++]of shippers located in that area; (c) the extent to which the applicant would be prepared to provide and support alternative transportation facilities in lieu of operating the main line or segment; (d) whether it would be more economical to use alternative transportation facilities in the area served by the main line or segment; (e) the period of time reasonably required for the purpose of adjusting any facilities that are wholly or partly dependent on the services provided by the main line or segment with the least disruption to the economy of the area served thereby; (f) the probable effect on other lines and other carriers and on the transportation system generally of the abandonment, on different dates, of the operation of the main line or segment; (g) the economic effect of the abandonment of the operation of the main line or segment on the communities and area served by the branch line; (h) the feasibility of maintaining the main line or segment as an operating line by changes in the method of operation through the interconnection with other lines of the company; (i) the feasibility of maintaining the main line or segment as an operating line, either jointly with or as part of the system of another company, by the sale or lease of the line or segment to another company or by the exchange of operating or running rights be ...

Licensing agreements containing such restrictions do not need to be notified to the Commission; - a certain number of obligations which the parties may lawfully include in their contracts (such as the right for licensors to terminate the agreement in the event of the licensee challenging the validity of the patent, the secret or substantial nature of the licensed know-how or the obligation for licensees to use their best endeavours to manufacture and market the licensed product); - a "blacklist" of clauses or restrictions the insertion of which in an agreement prevents block exemption being granted (restrictions on price and quantities ...[+++], a ban on exploiting competing technologies, customer restrictions between competing manufacturers, obligation on licensees to assign improvements to the technology concerned, territorial restrictions for a longer duration than those exempted); - an opposition procedure by which exemption is extended to agreements containing additional restrictions on competition not specified in the regulation, on condition that such agreements are notified to the Commission and that the Commission does not oppose the application of the exemption within four months (as opposed to six previously). Clauses previously outlawed, such as an obligation on licensees to procure from the licensor supplies which are not essential for a technically proper exploitation of the licensed technology, are subject to this procedure.