services at a fixed location referred to in the first paragraph of Article 95 of this Act to act as
the universal service provider. In the absence of such an undertaking, it shall designate the
undertaking with the greatest number of subscribers to publicly available telephone services
at a fixed location. In doing so, the Agency must adhere to the principles of efficiency,
objectivity and transparency.
(6) The Agency must, at least six months prior to expiry of the validity of the decision
referred to in the first paragraph of this Article, and on the basis of information on the
provision of universal service, establish whether the general availability of facilities and
services included in universal service requires redesignation of a universal service provider,
where it shall take into account the opinions of interested parties.
(7) The Agency shall notify the Commission of the universal service obligations imposed on
the universal service provider or providers referred to in the first paragraph of this Article.
Article 119
(disposal of a local access network)
(1) A universal service provider must notify the Agency in writing prior to the intended
disposal of all or a substantial part of its local access network assets to a separate legal entity
under different ownership.
(2) The Agency shall assess the effects of the intended disposal on the provision of access at
a fixed location and on the provision of telephone services in accordance with points 1 and 2
of the second paragraph of Article 115 of this Act. On the basis of its assessment, the Agency
may, by decision, impose, amend or withdraw a universal service obligation. If a universal
service provider has to be redesignated in a specific area or on the entire territory of the
Republic of Slovenia owing to the disposal, the Agency must use the procedure referred to in
Article 118 of this Act.
Article 120
(prices and general terms and conditions)
(1) The Agency shall monitor the development and level of retail prices of the services
referred to in Article 115 of this Act.
(2) The prices of specific services provided as universal service by a specific universal
service provider must be the same across the entire territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
(3) The Agency may require a specific universal service provider to adjust the prices of the
services it provides as universal service if, on the basis of the information referred to in the
first paragraph of this Article, it finds that the prices are not affordable or that they are not the
same across the entire territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
(4) The Agency shall, on the basis of collected information referred to in the first paragraph
of this Article, require an individual universal service provider, by decision, to offer price
options or packages for consumers with low incomes or special needs that differ from those
otherwise provided under normal commercial terms so as to ensure that they are not
prevented from accessing the network and using the services referred to in the second
paragraph of Article 115 of this Act. The Agency shall require this if it determines, on the
basis of the information collected, that the prices referred to in the first paragraph of this
Article are too high with regard to the average monthly income in the Republic of Slovenia as
published by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and if they grow by more than
5 percentage points faster than the cost-of-living index from the previous year. The Agency
shall lay down in detail, by means of a general act, the method of taking these criteria into