providing electronic communications networks and services as well as associated facilities
and services, the protection of user interests and the development of the internal market.
6. This Law has the objective of regulating electronic communications activities in
the Republic of Lithuania within the framework of the requirements of European Union
legal acts listed in Annex 2 to this Law.
Article 2. Regulatory framework for electronic communications activities
1. The regulation of electronic communications activities shall be based on the
principles of effective management and use of limited resources, technological neutrality,
functional equivalence, proportionality, minimal necessary regulation, legal certainty in a
dynamic market, economic development, ensuring effective competition, consumer rights
protection, objectivity of regulatory criteria, conditions and procedures, transparency and
non-discrimination.
2. The principle of technological neutrality shall mean that legal norms must be
applied taking into account the objectives to be achieved and ensuring, to a reasonable
extent, that their application does not encourage or discriminate the use of specific
technologies as well as ensuring that the legal norms are applied, as far as possible,
disregarding the technologies employed in the provision of electronic communications
networks or services related to a specific legal relationship.
3. The principle of functional equivalence shall mean that the application of the legal
norms should be as uniform as possible in respect of electronic communications networks
or services with analogous functions.
4. When applying the legal norms regulating electronic communications activities,
due account must be taken of the principles referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. These
principles should be harmonised without giving priority to any of them and applied with due
regard to the purpose and objectives set out in Article 1 of this Law.
Article 3. Definitions
1. Subscriber shall mean any person who or which is party to a contract for the
provision of public electronic communications services with the provider of such services.
2. Equipment and/or devices shall mean
electrical and/or electronic products and equipment containing electrical and/or
electronic components.
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