account. The minister shall, in agreement with the minister responsible for social affairs, determine those categories of consumers deemed to be persons with low incomes or special needs. In doing so, he shall take into account the level of funds needed to satisfy the minimum living requirements, or the level of physical disability in accordance with the legislation governing disabled care. The legal representative, custodian or carer of a child with special needs shall also be deemed to be a person with special needs. (5) The prices of specific services provided as universal service, and the terms and conditions applying to those services, must be made public and must be transparent and nondiscriminatory. (6) A universal service provider must set the prices and the general terms and conditions in such a way that subscribers to specific services provided as universal service are not obliged to pay for facilities or services which are not necessary or not required for such services. (7) A universal service provider designated pursuant to Article 118 of this Act must provide its subscribers with the following cost-monitoring options: 1. itemised billing in accordance with Article 121 of this Act; 2. free-of-charge selective call-barring for outgoing calls or premium SMS or MMS or, where technically feasible, other kinds of similar application to prevent calls or premium SMS or MMS or, where technically feasible, other kinds of similar applications of defined types or to defined types of number; 3. a pre-payment system for payment for access to the public communications network and the use of publicly available telephone services for consumers; 4. the phased payment of fees for connection to the public communications network; 5. at the request of the subscriber, information on other low-cost tariffs, if available; 6. other cost-monitoring methods for publicly available telephone services, including free-ofcharge alerts in the event of abnormal or excessive consumption patterns, if the Agency so determines in the decision referred to in the first paragraph of Article 118 of this Act. Article 121 (obligation to issue an itemised bill) (1) A universal service provider must make available to subscribers with whom it has signed a contract a level of itemised billing that allows them to verify and control their use and the charges incurred (basic level of itemised billing). Calls which are free of charge, including emergency calls, may not be identified in an itemised bill. (2) The basic level of itemised billing shall be sent to subscribers free of charge and upon the issuing of every bill, unless the subscriber informs the universal service provider that he does not wish to receive itemised bills. (3) The Agency may, by means of a general act, prescribe the minimum set of elements that must be stated separately in the basic level of itemised billing. (4) A universal service provider shall act in accordance with the provisions of the fourth and fifth paragraphs of Article 139 of this Act in order to protect the privacy of calling users and called subscribers in the issuing of itemised bills. Article 122 (restriction or disconnection of service for reasons on the part of the subscriber) (1) A universal service provider may restrict access to its services or disconnect a subscriber and terminate his subscriber contract only if he has not settled his outstanding liabilities or has breached other conditions laid down in the subscriber contract. A universal service provider must lay down in the general terms and conditions which measure is to be taken in