3. Protected services shall mean services provided against remuneration and on the
basis of conditional access, such as broadcasting of television and radio programmes by
wire or over the air, including by satellite, intended for the reception by the public as well
as information society services or the provision of conditional access to the above mentioned
services, considered as a service in its own right.
4. Breach of personal data protection shall mean a breach because of which
personal data are accidentally or unlawfully destroyed, lost, altered, disclosed without the
consent of a person or a possibility is created to use these data when they are transmitted,
stored or otherwise processed when providing public electronic communications services.
5. Person shall mean a natural person or a legal person established in the Republic
of Lithuania, a legal person or another organization, or their branch established in another
Member State of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
6. Unbundled access to the local loop shall mean full unbundled access to the local
loop and shared access to the local loop. The provision of unbundled access does not entail
a change in ownership of the local loop.
7. Local sub-loop shall mean a partial local loop connecting the network termination
point to a concentration point or a specified intermediate access point in the public fixed
network.
8. Electromagnetic disturbance shall mean any electromagnetic phenomenon
which may degrade the performance of equipment and/or devices. An electromagnetic
disturbance may be electromagnetic noise, an unwanted signal or a change in the
environment of radio wave propagation.
9. Electromagnetic compatibility shall mean the ability of equipment and/or
devices to function satisfactorily in an electromagnetic environment without emitting
intolerable electromagnetic disturbances which can be harmful to anything in that
environment.
10. Electronic communications shall mean the conveyance of signals by wire,
radio, optical or other electromagnetic means.
11. Electronic mail shall mean any text, voice, sound, image message or message
of any other form sent over a public communications network which can be stored in the
network or in the user’s terminal equipment until it is collected by the user.
12. Electronic communications infrastructure shall mean the totality of physical
infrastructure which is comprised of equipment, devices, including antennas, lines, pipes,
cables, ducts, collectors, manholes, retaining structures, towers, masts, buildings, building
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