ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (REGULATION) [ CAP. 399. 7 "terminal equipment" means terminal equipment as defined in point (1) of Article 1 of EU Commission Directive 2008/63/EC; " Tr i b u n a l " m e a n s t h e A d m i n i s t r a t i v e R e v i e w Tr i b u n a l established by article 5 of the Administrative Justice Act; Cap. 490. "undertaking" means a person providing or authorised to provide electronic communications networks and, or services or associated facilities; "universal services" means the minimum set of services of specified quality which is available to all users regardless of their geographical location and, in the light of specific national conditions, at an affordable price as may be defined by or under this Act; "user" means any person using or requesting a publicly available electronic communications service; "very high capacity network" means either an electronic communications network which consists wholly of optical fibre elements at least up to the distribution point at the serving location, or an electronic communications network which is capable of delivering, under usual peak-time conditions, similar network performance in terms of available downlink and uplink bandwidth, resilience, error-related parameters, and latency and its variation: Provided that network performance can be considered similar regardless of whether the end-user experience varies due to the inherently different characteristics of the medium by which the network ultimately connects with the network termination point; and "voice communications service" means a publicly available electronic communications service which uses specifically assigned numbering resources from the national numbering plan for originating and receiving, directly or indirectly, national calls or national and international calls through a number or numbers in a national or international numbering plan. "Voice communications service" is a subset of "number-based interpersonal communications service. PART II REGULATION OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS Amended by: VII. 2004.13. 1. Competent Authority to regulate Electronic Communications 3. (1) The Malta Communications Authority established under the Malta Communications Authority Act shall be the competent authority to regulate electronic communications under this Act and, insofar as is provided in this Act, to enforce the provisions of this Act. (2) The Authority shall have a separate annual budget which it shall implement autonomously, which budget shall be made public. The Authority shall be afforded adequate financial and human resources to carry out its functions under this Act and under any other applicable laws relating to electronic communications which Malta Communications Authority. Substituted by: XVIII. 2000.31; VII. 2004.14; IX. 2011.4. Amended by: LII. 2021.15. Cap. 418.