3. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall issue the rules for providing
universal services regulating to the scope of universal services, quality requirements,
procedure and conditions for provision of such services, procedure, conditions and cases of
imposition, change and/or repeal of obligations on electronic communications services
providers to provide universal services as well as rules for publication of information about
service quality. The universal service obligations may also be related to having significant
market power on the relevant market. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall have
the right to impose obligations, which are necessary in order to properly provide universal
services, on undertakings which have not been authorised to provide universal services.
4. When verifying if an undertaking with universal service obligations fulfils such
obligations, the Communications Regulatory Authority shall have the right to order
independent audits and/or similar reviews of the performance data, paid for by the
undertaking concerned, in order to ensure the accuracy and comparability of the data. Such
independent audits and/or similar reviews, paid for by the undertaking concerned, may be
ordered not more often than once per calendar year, except for the cases where there is
reasonable suspicion that the undertaking acts in violation of legal acts or where the
undertaking seeks compensation for losses incurred in connection with the provision of
services. An auditor or an audit firm shall be selected by tender. Tender conditions and
procedure shall be established by the Communications Regulatory Authority.
5. Losses for provision of services provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article shall
be compensated in cases and following the conditions of the procedure provided for in the
rules for compensation of losses for provision of universal services with the funds of public
telephone service providers. The Government shall have the right to establish other sources
for compensating the losses incurred in connection with universal services. The Government
may authorise the Communications Regulatory Authority to lay down the rules for the
calculation of losses, impose a compensation mechanism and determine the amount of
losses in specific cases. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall have the right to
review the accounts of an undertaking as well as other information used for the calculation
of the amount of losses and to request the undertaking to submit an audit opinion. The results
of the loss calculation and the conclusions of the review carried out by the Communications
Regulatory Authority and/or the audit opinion shall be made public. The Communications
Regulatory Authority shall inform the European Commission of a compensation mechanism
when the losses are compensated with the funds of the public telephone service providers.
6. Repealed as of 1 August 2011.
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