4 CAP. 399.] ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (REGULATION) by or under this Act ensuring rights for the provision of electronic communications networks or services and laying down sector specific obligations that may apply to all or to specific types of electronic communications networks and services in accordance with this Act; "harmful interference" means interference which endangers the functioning of a radio navigation service or of other safety services or which otherwise seriously degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts a radio communications service operating in accordance with the applicable international, European Union or national regulations; "harmonised radio spectrum" means radio spectrum for which harmonised conditions relating to its availability and efficient use have been established by way of technical implementing measures in accordance with Article 4 of EU Decision No. 676/2002/EC (Radio Spectrum Decision); "interconnection" means a specific type of access implemented between public network operators by means of the physical and logical linking of public electronic communications networks used by the same or a different undertaking in order to allow the users of one undertaking to communicate with users of the same or another undertaking, or to access services provided by another undertaking where such services are provided by the parties involved or other parties who have access to the network; "interpersonal communications service" means a service normally provided for remuneration that enables direct interpersonal and interactive exchange of information via electronic communications networks between a finite number of persons, whereby the persons initiating or participating in the communication determine its recipient(s), and does not include services which enable interpersonal and interactive communication merely as a minor ancillary feature that is intrinsically linked to another service; "internal market" means the internal market of the European Union; "ITU Radio Regulations" means the Radio Regulations annexed to, or regarded as being annexed to the most recent International Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s C o n v e n t i o n o f t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l Telecommunications Union (ITU) which is in force at that time; " l o c a l l o o p " means the physical path used by electronic communications signals connecting the network termination point to a distribution frame or equivalent facility in the fixed public electronic communications network; "Member State" means a Member State of the European Union; "the Minister" means the Minister responsible for communications; "national regulatory authority" means the body or bodies notified for the purposes of European Union law to the European Commission by a Member State as having been assigned tasks in