5. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall have the right to establish
requirements for the provision and use of electronic programme guides and similar listing
and navigation facilities.
6. It shall be prohibited to manufacture, keep, use, import, export, sell, lease or
otherwise transfer, modify, install and maintain decoders, other equipment or software for
commercial purposes enabling illegal access to protected services. The advertising of such
equipment and software shall be prohibited. Persons having committed the aforementioned
illm -egal actions shall be held liable in accordance with the procedure established by the
law. The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority shall supervise compliance with the
provisions set out in this paragraph in accordance with the procedure established by the
Government.
Article 26. Special measures ensuring effective competition
1. Undertakings controlled by the State or municipalities or holding exclusive or
special rights, which have significant market power in a considerable part of the common
market for the provision of public communications networks and public telephone services
and which control a cable television network installed using exclusive or special rights held
or being held in the same geographical area, may provide a cable television network only
through a legal person other than the legal person used for the provision of a public
communications network.
2. Providers of public communications networks and/or public electronic
communications services which have also been granted special or exclusive rights for the
provision of services in other economic sectors of the Republic of Lithuania or other
European Union Member States shall keep separate accounts for the activities associated
with the provision of electronic communications networks and/or services in accordance
with the accounting separation rules and related requirements including the audit
requirement and the requirement to have structural separation for the activities associated
with the provision of electronic communications networks and/or services as established by
the Communications Regulatory Authority. The Communications Regulatory Authority
shall have the right to specify the requirements for structural separation.
3. Paragraph 2 of this Article shall not apply to undertakings the annual turnover of
which in activities associated with electronic communications networks and/or services in
the Republic of Lithuania is less than EUR 50 million.
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