4. Any undertakings providing public electronic communications networks or public
electronic communications services, except for small and medium-sized enterprises, must
ensure that their annual financial reports are audited and published. This provision shall also
apply to all separate accounts kept pursuant to paragraph 2 of this Article. The
Communications Regulatory Authority shall have the right to specify the procedure and
conditions for implementing the provisions of this paragraph.
Article
27.
Measures
ensuring
the
interoperability
of
electronic
communications
1. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall adopt legal acts obligating to
comply with the standards set by international and European standardisation organisations,
which have been transposed into Lithuanian standards in accordance with the established
procedure, as well as with original Lithuanian standards, international and European
specifications and/or recommendations for the provision of electronic communications
networks and services as well as associated facilities and services including the broadcasting
of radio and/or television programmes, technical interfaces and/or network functions, and
the interoperability of terminal equipment, including radio and television programme
reception equipment. A natural or legal person shall be considered as having fulfilled the
obligation to comply with Lithuanian standards in the above mentioned areas if the person
complies with the relevant international or European standards as well as with the relevant
Lithuanian standards transposing international or European standards.
2. Until international or European standards in the areas referred to in paragraph 1
above have not been transposed into Lithuanian standards, the Communications Regulatory
Authority may request direct compliance with the relevant standards. After having
transposed the relevant standard into a Lithuanian standard, any reference to the
international or European standard shall be considered to be a reference to the relevant
Lithuanian standard. A person or undertaking shall be considered as having fulfilled the
obligation to comply with international or European standards in the areas referred to in
paragraph 1 above if the person/undertaking complies with the relevant standards
transposing international or European standards.
3. Technical requirements of the standards declared by persons or undertakings
which have submitted on a voluntary basis a declaration of conformity of their products or
services to such standards, including international, European, foreign and Lithuanian
standards, shall be binding on the said persons/undertakings.
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