subject to immediate enforcement.
(4) The validity of the authorization granted if the prerequisites covered under Paragraph (1) exist
shall cease after advance written notification of the undertaking, with the Commission expressly
indicating the specific grounds and reasoning.
(5) By the notification referred to in Paragraph (4), the Commission shall allow the undertaking
not less than thirty days to express an opinion.
(6) (Amended, SG No. 17/2009) The Commission may withdraw the authorization only after
deliberating the explanations and objections of the undertaking and ascertaining the availability of
sufficient evidence of the circumstances covered under Paragraph (1).
Article 118. (1) In the cases referred to in Item 4 of Article 117 (2) herein, the scarce resource
shall not be considered available if any or some of the heirs applies in writing to the Commission for use
of the individually assigned scarce resource for which the authorization was granted within one month
after the death of the natural person. In such case, the Commission shall grant a new authorization for
use of the same individually assigned scarce resource without a contest or tender within twenty-one days
after submission of the application. The Commission shall notify the applicants in writing within three
days after the grant of the authorization.
(2) Within fourteen days after receipt of the notification referred to in Paragraph (1), the applicant
shall remit the fees due to the account of the Commission.
(3) The Commission shall deliver the authorization to the applicants after payment of all fees due
under this Act.
Article 119. An undertaking of which the validity of an authorization has been terminated in
pursuance of Article 117 (1) herein may submit an application for the grant of a new authorization not
earlier than twelve months after the date of the decision of the Commission on termination of the
validity of the authorization.
Article 120. (1) The validity of an authorization for use of an individually assigned scarce
resource as granted may be suspended by the Commission in the following cases:
1. (amended, SG No. 35/2009, effective 12.05.2009) at a request from a competent authority in
cases of disasters, upon declaration of a state of martial law, a state of war or a state of emergency;
2. at a reasoned request from the competent authorities if national security is jeopardized;
3. at a reasoned request from the undertaking which has been granted an authorization.
(2) In the cases referred to in Items 1 and 2 of Paragraph (1), suspension shall continue until the
lapse of the need of such suspension.
(3) Upon suspension of the validity of an authorization in pursuance of Item 3 of Paragraph (1),
the undertaking which has been granted the authorization shall owe contributions towards the annual
fees for the time for which the validity of the authorization has been suspended.
(4) In the cases referred to in Item 3 of Paragraph (1), the Commission shall examine the
reasonableness of the request made and shall pronounce on the said request within twenty-one days after
receipt of the said request. In such cases, suspension may not be for a period longer than three months.
The Commission shall refuse a suspension:
1. where the request is by an undertaking with significant market power on the market for
electronic communications networks and/or services, in respect of which the said undertaking has been
designated as such;
2. where an obligation for provision of universal service has been imposed on the undertaking;
3. to an undertaking holding an authorization for use of an individually assigned scarce resource
within a national range, implementing public electronic communications.
(5) The decisions on suspension and subsequent resumption of the validity of an authorization as
granted shall be communicated to the parties concerned within three days.
Article 121. (1) (Amended, SG No. 17/2009, SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) An
undertaking which has been granted an authorization for use of an individually assigned scarce resource