Independent Telecommunications Regulatory Bodies

1. Each Party shall ensure that its telecommunications regulatory body is separate from,
and not accountable to, any supplier of public telecommunications services. To this end,
each Party shall ensure that its telecommunications regulatory body does not hold a financial
interest or maintain an operating role in any such supplier.
2. Each Party shall ensure that the decisions and procedures of its telecommunications
regulatory body are impartial with respect to all interested persons. To this end, each Party
shall ensure that any financial interest that it holds in a supplier of public
telecommunications services does not influence the decisions and procedures of its
telecommunications regulatory body.