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A license granted under this Article is valid for the period stated in the license, provided that
all periodic continuation fees required by the Regulatory Board are paid by the license holder.
The Regulatory Board may suspend any license where the periodic fees for continuation of
the license have not been paid.
The Regulatory Board is responsible for ensuring that telecommunications network or
networks and telecommunications services providers comply with the terms of their licenses
and may impose where necessary the enforcement provisions and sanctions set out in this law.
Individual licenses are issued in cases where:
1° operators providing public telecommunications services and public telecommunications
networks request for it;
2° a request is made for access to radio frequencies or numbers in the National numbering
plan;
3° particular rights are granted with regard to access to public or private land;
4° obligations are to be imposed on the proposed licensee with respect to the mandatory
provision of public telecommunications services and/or public networks;
5° specific obligations have to be imposed on public network or networks and/or service
providers which enjoy a dominant position in the telecommunications market they are
serving, in order to ensure that competition in the market is not distorted;
6° defence and public security related conditions have to be imposed.
The Regulatory Board may revoke any individual license in the event either that the licensee
does not:
1° substantially commences the implementation of the telecommunications networks and/or
services which are the subject of the license up to one year after the date of its grant or,
2° having commenced the implementation without meeting the dates in its license for the
implementation of the networks and/or services.
No license granted under this Law is transferred or assigned to a third party without the
written consent of the Regulatory Board and the payment of any required fee. Contravention
of this provision is an offence punishable in accordance with paragraph (2) of Article 57 of
this law and the transfer shall be deemed to be of no effect.
All licenses other than those granted under paragraph (9) of this Article are granted as
standard licenses. Unless there are objective and justifiable reasons for doing so, it is
forbidden for an individual license to be issued which:
1° alters any rights given or conditions attached to a standard license;
2° restricts or complements any rights enjoyed by the licence holder under a standard license.