Standardization Measures Sample Clauses

Standardization Measures. 1. Each Party shall ensure that its standardization measures that relate to the connection of terminal equipment or other equipment to public telecommunications networks, including those measures that relate to the use of test and measurement equipment for the evaluation procedure of the conformity, are adopted or maintained only to the extent necessary for: a) avoid technical damage to public telecommunications networks; b) avoid technical interference with public telecommunications services or their deterioration; c) avoid electromagnetic interference and ensure compatibility with other uses of the electromagnetic spectrum; d) prevent billing equipment from malfunctioning; or e) guarantee the user's security and access to public telecommunications networks or services. 2. The Parties may establish the approval requirement for the connection of terminal equipment or other equipment that is not authorized to the public telecommunications network, provided that the approval criteria are compatible with the provisions of paragraph 1. 3. Each Party shall ensure that terminal points of public telecommunications networks are defined on a reasonable and transparent basis. 4. Telecommunications, based on the criteria established in paragraph 1, neither Party shall require additional authorization for the equipment that is connected to the consumer's side. 5. Each Party: a) ensure that its conformity assessment procedures are transparent and non-discriminatory and that requests submitted for this purpose are processed expeditiously; b) the required testing of terminal equipment or other equipment that is to be connected to public telecommunications networks, in accordance with the Party's conformity assessment procedures, subject to the Party's right to review the accuracy and integrity of test results; AND c) ensure that measures adopted or maintained to authorize persons acting as agents of suppliers of telecommunications equipment before the competent bodies of conformity assessment of the Party are not discriminatory. 6. Not later than two years from the entry into force of this Agreement, each Party shall adopt, as part of its conformity assessment procedures, the necessary provisions to accept the results of the tests, based on its measures and procedures, carried out by the laboratories that are in the territory of the other Party. 7. The Telecommunications Subgroup established in accordance with numeral iii) of letter a) of Article 13-17 (Working Group on ...